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Amazon Reviews:

Plain Jane
Plain Jane
2022-05-04
Dublin in Sketches and Stories: Lovely sketches, tips on technique, personal stories, observations, views of Dublin. Much more than a book about urban sketching, this delightful book is a warm and chatty coffee table book about the artist’s observations, experiences, interactions, and hidden treasures encountered when out and about in Dublin. It’s a pen and ink, personalized tour book of an historic and vibrant city, with sketching tips throughout . I want to pack my sketching kit and get on a plane to see and sketch these sites, now that I’ve read this gem!
Eleanor Jenkins
Eleanor Jenkins
2022-04-26
Dublin in Sketches and Stories: A perfect gift! A perfect gift! I bought this book for my sister who is living in Australia and I loved it so much I got myself a copy. It’s full of bright beautiful art and interesting facts. Highly recommend as a gift for a friend or even better yourself.
Caitriona Mooney
Caitriona Mooney
2022-02-08
Dublin in Sketches and Stories: Captures Dublin beautifully This book was an impulse buy in a physical bookstore, I love the sketches and bought it largely for that reason. However it is more than beautiful sketching, the stories and seasonal approach are a really lovely way of capturing Dublin. The book lead me to Roisins fantastic online urban sketching classes and an obsession was born.
Jan
Jan
2022-01-31
Dublin in Sketches and Stories: Perfect gift. This was a Christmas gift to relations who live in a Dublin suburb.They loved it .
paeony
paeony
2022-01-27
Dublin in Sketches and Stories: Artist and Travelogue full of character Roisin is a master at capturing the life, light and stories of a city in watercolour and words. This is a second book following on from her Galway book and it is wonderful. Just go buy it and get copies for your friends and family.
Janet Winter
Janet Winter
2021-12-30
Dublin in Sketches and Stories: Beautiful sketches and fascinating facts. Beautiful book, I loved the one of Galway and I had been looking forward to the Dublin one. It’s like a super, alternate travel guide. Fantastic sketches and touching stories. (The books make great presents and have been loved by the people I sent them to).
Dragonsreach
Dragonsreach
2021-11-25
Dublin in Sketches and Stories: It’s a Wonderful Book Róisín Curé’s way of combining a storytelling along with her art, give a flavour to this that is uniquely Irish, full of warmth and gentle wit.It’s not a tourist guide of Dublin, it’s one woman’s homage to that city, and as I read through this it was her voice I heard, even to the way she speaks about ‘the brother’.If you want to find Eire through someone’s eyes and stories then this and her book on Galway are for you.
Amazon rating score: 4.9 of 5, based on 7 reviews

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Reviews of 'An Urban Sketcher's Galway'

If you love Galway you will love this
Beautifully produced, substantial hardback book, full of gorgeous Galway scenes, takes me right back there. Visited frequently for many years, and remember the pubs from 40 years ago. Vibrant sketches of vibrant scenes. Though many of the cafes and restaurants are new to me. Very well written too, an engaging insight into some of the artist's history and influences. Got her next book on sketching people on order. (Roisin is an excellent teacher too, I am one of her happy students).
Breathing RemediesAmazom UK ★★★★★
Beautiful water colours of Galway
Bought as a present for a friend whose ancestors were from Galway, she loves it.
S. WillisAmazon UK ★★★★★
A beautifully drawn and written book a must for would be urban sketchers
I just love this book ! It’s a really good incentive to get me out sketching more , I love the way it also tells stories about the artist, her family and all she comes across in Galway.
Mrs T.Amazon UK ★★★★★
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    Reviews of 'An Urban Sketcher's Galway'

    Beautiful book
    This is a stunning book. Beautiful illustrations, and stories. A great keepsake for any Galwegian.
    Eoin KernanAmazon UK ★★★★★
    Best urban sketching book - ticks all the boxes!
    Definitely, the BEST visual diary & artist's sketchbook published by an urban sketcher that I've seen. Rich in the type of detail that only a local artist can convey, the book is full of charming and skillful sketches. Each page is a delight - the color and line - and Roisin's poetic and humourous point of view. I bought it for the art - as both a reference and source for inspiration - and got more than my money's worth - as Roisin's writing is hilarious, poetic and insightful.
    RigiAmazon UK ★★★★★
    Gorgeous book
    This book is great! both pictures and stories are so full of life and details and wit that you really feel like you are in Galway sitting next to Roìsìn and listening to street musicians or watching seagulls. So much talent! Highly recommended
    RCAmazon Italy ★★★★★
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    Reviews of 'An Urban Sketcher's Galway'

    What a perfect treat of a book!
    This is a gorgeous book, full of life, characters, and beautiful sketches of Galway city. It's like walking round Galway with the perfect tour guide, showing you all the unique special places and people.
    paeonyAmazon UK ★★★★★
    I really enjoyed this book
    A beautifully produced book with a vibrant,quirky and original take on Galway Ireland, a must have for all Artists,Urban Sketchers and people interested in Ireland.
    Ciaran BrennanAmazon UK ★★★★★
    Lovely Book
    I follow this artist on various social media and have always been impressed with her art. Her paintings are delightful and I can't recommend this book highly enough.
    Steven WayneAmazon UK ★★★★★
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    Reviews of 'An Urban Sketcher's Galway'

    Beautiful Book
    Beautiful book. Love it.
    Michele M. DietrichAmazon Canada ★★★★★
    Love it!
    Love this book! Very Inspiring!
    Amazon customerAmazon Canada ★★★★★
    Not just good art, but good information for the traveler
    We visited a friend in Ireland, and I used this book as a travelogue to become oriented to the western coast. Aside from being artistically beautiful, there is much practical information that turned out to be very useful. This book is far more than just a book on sketching, though the illustrations are superb. It's one of the few travel books that takes you there in as real a sense as can be done by a book or documentary.
    R. SmithAmazon USA ★★★★★
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    Review of 'An Urban Sketcher's Galway'

    A fabulous book to own or to gift.
    I love this urban sketcher book by Roisin Cure. I bought one for myself and four more for some of my friends living abroad. It is a beautifully produced hardcover book with gorgeous detailed sketches of Galway city ( where i live!) and text full of useful, fun and interesting stories about Galway. You really feel like you are walking through the city when reading this book or just analyzing the many beautiful ink sketches and vibrant watercolour scenes Roisin has captured. A lovely book to have in any home whether interested in sketching or not. My daughter and i try to sketch the people or seagulls that are drawn in it and my Costa Rican friend has it sitting pretty on her coffee table , dreaming about visiting Galway city someday!. A truly lovely book to own.
    KatherineAmazon review ★★★★★

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    Turning Up The Volume On Colour

    I want to tell you a story about colour. A colourful story, if you will. When I first started sketching, I was a bit “AI” about it, a bit of a computer. My process was as follows: 1. Look at the scene. 2. Record the shapes you see with a pen. 3. Now colour them…

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    My Sketching Family…of Very Important Painters

    My First Steps I taught my first online class in May 2020. It was about capturing foliage from life in ink and watercolour. The people who attended the class knew who I was, having followed my sketching progress through the years, since my first tentative posts in 2012. Of course, the fact that everyone was…

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    About Roisin

    Hello! I’m Róisín Curé, from Galway, on the west coast of Ireland. Back in 2012 I discovered urban sketching, and since then a whirlwind of colour and line has swept through my life. I am so grateful for the happy accident that led me to stumble on urban sketching, and my life is infinitely richer as a result.

    Now, as well as organising urban sketching workshops within Europe, I am a freelance urban sketcher. I currently carry out all kinds of sketching assignments, as varied as you can imagine, from festivals and weddings to all manner of businesses. I also teach children all about watercolour and drawing ( I have a quiverful of mini-urban sketchers ready and willing to pin down their lives in art!) and I run my local urban sketching chapter, Urban Sketchers Galway, with pride. We meet about once a fortnight, sometimes more, and we really enjoy the simple act of sketching together around the city.

    I teach all kinds of topics, and I love to sketch all kinds of subjects. Above all I am passionate about others taking up their sketchbooks and joining in, in this absorbing and wonderfully satisfying activity.

     

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