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Capture Your Family In Sketches

Blog, Daily Life, Painting tips and techniquesBy Roisín CuréJanuary 30, 20205 Comments

One of the most satisfying things I do as an urban sketcher is to capture my family in sketches. While I’m not one for putting into words the love I feel for those closest to me, it’s there on the page of my sketchbooks: every line I pull, every brush stroke I make, I do…

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Sketching Is Getting Me Through January

Blog, Daily LifeBy Roisín CuréJanuary 15, 20205 Comments

January is awful, weather-wise, and this year is no exception. However I’m cheering myself up with a good bit of sketching. Technicolor in Neachtain’s After a long gap, Urban Sketchers Galway met in Neachtain’s on Cross Street the weekend before last. It was just Mairéad and myself, but that counts! We had a lovely afternoon…

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Getting Attention Will Make You A Better Artist

Blog, Daily LifeBy Roisín CuréJanuary 12, 20204 Comments

I saw this TED Talk the other night, and I had a few thoughts that I’d like to share with you. Joseph G-L seems like a very nice person, and showing the vulnerability in the talk that he did was admirable, but while on the whole I agree with his fundamental point, we disagree in…

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Practical Urban Sketching: Workshop, Dublin, 20th-23rd March 2020

Teaching and CoursesBy Roisín CuréJanuary 10, 2020Leave a comment

When it comes to urban sketching, there is a world of tips and techniques to make your experience easier and better. From choosing handy tools to clever ways to paint: from sneaky ways to master perspective to knowing when to use the right ink for the right pen, there are myriad things an experienced instructor…

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Happy New Year!

Blog, Daily LifeBy Roisín CuréJanuary 3, 20204 Comments

30th December 2019 My students are so full of enthusiasm for sketching in 2020 that it has inspired me in turn, so I am making sure my sketching kit is never far away. Here is my 15-year-old, Liv, playing a game to which she appears to be rather attached. I could have sworn I heard…

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The Christmas Blog Post

Blog, Daily LifeBy Roisín CuréDecember 28, 2019Leave a comment

Christmas Eve It’s Christmas in Kilcolgan, in our little corner of windswept west of Ireland. On Christmas Eve my daughter Liv and I went up the road to the ruins of Tyrone House to stretch our legs; Reuben the terrier has only got little ones, but stretching they need nonetheless. It’s only five minutes’ walk…

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Festive Fun in Dublin City, and a Grudge Match

Blog, Daily Life, Painting in IrelandBy Roisín CuréDecember 22, 201911 Comments

A Christmas Shopping Safari One crisp, cold winter’s night a few weeks ago, in Dublin on a sketching trip, I came to the end of South Anne Street, entered Grafton Street and was confronted by a vision of festive loveliness that made me catch my breath. The Christmas lights had arrived, and the street looked…

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Prints from “An Urban Sketcher’s Galway”

News, Painting in IrelandBy Roisín CuréDecember 16, 2019Leave a comment

Beautifully presented giclée prints for sale this Christmas

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Creativity – All Day To Do It

Blog, Daily LifeBy Roisín CuréDecember 6, 20192 Comments

“There are 35,000 people coming in and out of University College Dublin every day,” my colleague Michael Brennan told me the other evening. Michael is a book salesman, and is in charge of selling my book, An Urban Sketcher’s Galway. He came to Galway last week and after we visited a few bookshops to do…

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Compostela Ilustrada! Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 8th-10th November 2019

-Travel, Blog, Teaching and CoursesBy Roisín CuréNovember 13, 20193 Comments

I have just returned from the beautiful medieval city of Santiago de Compostela in northern Spain, where I attended the fabulous Compostela Ilustrada sketching event. (Warning: this may be an envy-inducing post, unless you cannot abide rain, in which case you will be very glad indeed that you did not attend.) The old part of…

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