So a very wet day meant the flag didn’t have to get wet as the new hanging sign shows where I am. Not feeling at my best today and no customers but I did complete two card designs from scratch. In both cases these are the original line drawings based on my own photos. Yep, …
Zoom network meeting this am with five others from business network I belong to locally. Catch up as much as anything else. This week open as usual then from Tuesday 8 to Sunday 13 away on a short break when I may sketch a bit and take some photos. Will post this on social media …
Walk on the beach, photos and watching the scenery, the sea, the visitors…
Today started with a walk on the beach before work and another reference picture to help with my current panorama project. Coffee pre work at Java and very soon after my new purchase arrived and was fitted and not the shop has a sign all the time outside. I am still using the studio flag …
So the first linocut product for 2022 – ‘Kayaker’ as a greetings card. I have made the decision that I will hand print at the studio all pieces I produce this year and that each design will be produced as a limited edition. The first card (above) is a series of 100 and the first …
A day off, walking on the seafront and just noticing things around us.
Second day in a row with a family I know – but local rather than visitors this time and that magic moment when three often hyperactive young girls were absolutely focused and silent for about 5 minutes. In fact their Mum and I were so gobsmacked we probably triggered the next word spoken. Now at …
This morning at the studio I had no visitors so got on with my panorama piece adding detail to the building at Ocean Bay and started to add some of the beach huts then housing at the top of the cliff. A complex task which I took in stages and patiently not wanting to make …
Today we had a walk and I spent some time looking at the section of coastline in my current panorama drawing. On todays walk I took a couple of extra photos to refer back to for vegetation / exposed geology in the cliffs. Also what lies at the end of some houses. When I have …
One of the targets I have set myself to work on this year is to draw some panorama pieces. I have some record of doing this previously as my art has developed. My first one came in July 2017 when the buyers of my Beach Huts original commissioned a larger version of a colour pencil …