So, the winter break was good with 10 days locally taking time out and coffee shop sketching. Then a week away in Lanzarote, for the first time, for some winter sun. I did some sketching while away and took many photos and think I really need to do some pieces based on my travels in …
So I served customers, chatted to visitors and did some art too. This was a sunny day until the shade moved over so I spent a lot of the day drawing outside in the sunshine. James my printer, delivered work to Lucy and myself this morning, I got prints into mounts and titled and cards …
One of my favourite subjects to draw because of the detail involved in the construction are Cornish Pilot rowing gigs. Each year in May the World championships are held in the Isles of Scilly. My club Swanage Sea Rowing Club takes several team combinations each year. As other commitments have kept me away from rowing …
So 31 January marked a whole year as AndyKnillArt. I had investigated and come up with the name in November 2016 about the time I had a breakdown and left teaching. I wasn’t in the right headspace so came back to it. AndyKnillArt is different from my keeping sketchbooks for mindfulness. I was sticking my …
Well PAW number one has passed, by the end of it I was elated but also weary after 16 consecutive days. I produced a range of art pieces including cards and original canvases. Sales and visitor numbers were far in excess of anything I would have hoped for prior to the Open Studio. I took …
Sunday 28th May Mixed weather again but got brighter, even sunny in the afternoon. A good day where early on it was quiet and I got on with mounting two pictures – my drawing from my stewarding at the Etches Collection Sketches exhibition last week and my piece at home of the Foxglove. The Foxglove …
Saturday 27th May. I had attended the Private View at Rollington on Friday evening and did my two hours stewarding stint as Soft Drinks barman. I then got to have a look around most of the exhibition and bought Anne a print that she liked by Linda Wallis. A very sunny evening. So, Saturday morning …
Well, school holidays mean that my weekly art group is not on. I have been doing some gardening outside the building that will serve as my Open Studio (22) for Purbeck Art Weeks from May 27th. Three pictures are now at framers – the New wall / Old wall piece which will then return to …