I thought I might sketch lots in 2024. I hoped I would. It’s 10th January today and my little sketchbook is filling up nicely. First I painted my husband Marcel. That wasn’t the plan: I had the idea to use a few colours from the latest range by Roman Szmal to see how they’d perform,…
2023 was a beautiful year for me, all because of my sketching activities.
Autumn to winter and the weather gradually gets colder but the joy is there to be had through sketching no matter what the season.
We don’t often get warm, dry weather in Galway, but when we do, it really is paradise around here.
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…
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…
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…
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Endless summer days are meant for sketching. I get many chances to sketch this week, with and without screens.
I spend a few days sketching with my mother, Cinnie, in the Burren, Co. Clare. We have a simply marvellous time.