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The Lockdown Is Over (For Now)

Blog, Daily LifeBy Roisín CuréAugust 11, 2020Leave a comment

Tuesday 21st July I dropped my children, Paddy (18) and Liv (16) to the sailing club to start their new jobs as sailing instructors. It was a grey day but I had been sketching in a 5km radius, or less, for many months, and wasn’t about to look a gift horse in the mouth. The…

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Sketching in Morocco: September 13th – 21st & September 23rd – October 1st 2021

-Travel, News, Teaching and CoursesBy Roisín CuréJuly 12, 20201 Comment

A Dream Sketching Holiday Are you dreaming of your next sketching trip? Cast your mind to nine days in Morocco: the desert, the food, the architecture, the oases, the date palms, the people. In partnership with Morocco Ecoway, I am delighted to announce a wonderful trip, planned for September 2021. My teaching style is to…

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Glorious Colour and Beautiful Line

Blog, Daily LifeBy Roisín CuréJune 28, 2020Leave a comment

Friday 26th June “For every old sock, there’s an old shoe.” I stop by a French bakery on the outskirts of Galway City, wait in a socially-distant queue and buy all the pastries I can reasonably buy without looking like I haven’t eaten for a month. I am celebrating: twenty-one years ago, in a tiny…

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Still Messing About In Boats

Blog, Daily LifeBy Roisín CuréJune 25, 20204 Comments

Sunday 21st June There’s a place I have sketched many times. It is called Killeenaran Quay. It has colourful boats and a wall with a bridge, and sea and seaweed, and loads of sky that is usually a celestial canvas of something dramatic and beautiful. When I arrived last Sunday I dropped down over the…

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The Grass Is Greener…

Blog, Daily LifeBy Roisín CuréJune 18, 20204 Comments

Thursday 18th June Paddy (18) wants to visit Galway City. He hasn’t been in town for three months, whereas we used to go once every couple of weeks. “I just want to go in and get a quiche from the Gourmet Tart Company,” he says in such a wistful voice that I cannot refuse, and…

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Singing Through The Storm

Blog, Daily LifeBy Roisín CuréJune 15, 20202 Comments

Monday 15th June It is hot today. We have been spoiled with amazing weather lately, but then some wretched wind came in from the Arctic and we got cold again. Now the good weather has returned. I suggest to Liv (15) that we head off for a snorkel. She’s game, so just after lunch we…

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Elderflower Loveliness

Blog, Daily LifeBy Roisín CuréJune 13, 2020Leave a comment

It’s elderflower season in Galway. years ago I used to make elderflower cordial, but I have passed the baton on to my younger daughter Olivia (15), who is as domestically-goddess as I ever was, with the great benefit that she is extremely tidy and organised too, something I never managed. But she loves all the…

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Clams and Mussels, Alive Alive Oh!

Blog, Daily LifeBy Roisín CuréJune 11, 20204 Comments

My brother Malachy paid us a visit. He bought clams and mussels from the guys down the road. They harvest them down at the shore where I sat on wet sand and sketched the other day, and bring them back to a little shed, where they are filtered (clams) and de-bearded (mussels) and flown all…

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Last Day of Lockdown, Day 79

Blog, Daily LifeBy Roisín CuréJune 9, 20205 Comments

I am sewing a lot of pencil cases at the moment. They are gifts for the generous artists who contributed their work to my new book, Urban Sketcher’s Handbook – Drawing Expressive People, because I wanted to say thank you to them. For all I know they all already have loads of pencil cases, and…

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Still Locked Down, Day 73

Blog, Daily LifeBy Roisín CuréJune 4, 20204 Comments

It couldn’t last forever. The beautiful harmony we had enjoyed as a family for three whole months of being cooped up together cracked, and after a dinner that had taken me hours to cook one of my kids was rude to me. I am used to it with another of the kids, but not this…

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