Join Me This Month For Sketchbook Revival
This month sees the return of the popular Sketchbook Revival event, free and online. Find out all about how to sign up in this article.
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…
Sketchalong Tuesday 7th February 7.00pm GMT
Spring is in the air, and with Valentine’s Day around the corner, love seems to be in the air too…just look at those cute rooks lined up on the wire. I wonder have they worked out how far apart they need to be for a bit of privacy, as they always seem to take the…
New Year, New You…In Body and Soul
Whatever your resolution is, it’s bound to be ambitious, good for you and something you feel you didn’t do enough of in 2022. For me, that’s keeping fit and making my body look better. In September of 2022 I started seeing a personal trainer in a gym – well five of them – and have…
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…
An Urban Sketching Workshop, 19th-21st August 2022
Last January I announced two urban sketching workshops for the month of August. Each would last two and a half days and would take place in Galway City. The last one I had run was late in 2019, which is a big gap – this one would be just short of three years later. Since…
My Sketching Week, 20th-28th July
Endless summer days are meant for sketching. I get many chances to sketch this week, with and without screens.
Sketching in the Burren with Mrs Guns and Roses: 11th-16th July
I spend a few days sketching with my mother, Cinnie, in the Burren, Co. Clare. We have a simply marvellous time.
How I Fell In Love With France, 1975 -2022…& A Week at Clermont Dessine, 14th-20th June ’22
All about a week of sketching and teaching in the Auvergne, France, at Clermont Dessine, with good friends.
A Bit Of An Owl Chat, And Art In Gardens – 6th-10th June
Monday 6th June It’s a Bank Holiday in Ireland and there’s a talk on in the Burren Nature Sanctuary. A guy is coming to talk about barn owls. I ask my family if they would like to come along. “We’re going to meet Erin the barn owl,” I say. My son Paddy (20) immediately agrees,…