Sketch With Me Once A Month Online With My Sketch Club
If you’d like to kick-start your sketching practice this autumn then don’t delay – sign up for my Sketch Club by 1st September!
Tour de France 2026 – Part 3
I spent a dreamy week teaching a wonderful group in Atelier Clos Mirabel, in Southwest France, this July.
Tour de France 2026 – Part 2
Part Two of my Tour De France 2026, during the USk Symposium in Toulouse went better than Part One.
Tour de France 2026 – Part 1
I have visited France twice in the last three weeks, so I am saying it’s my Tour de France 2026.
“Vignettes of the Pyrenees”: Urban Sketching in France 2026
Join me in France this summer for a week that promises to be unforgettable. From 25th July to 1st August 2026, I will teach a one-week Urban Sketching course in ink and watercolour in the beautiful Clos Mirabel, a French manor house near the city of Pau in the far south of the country, in…
The Best Way To Learn Is To Teach
My loyal and enthusiastic students generally trust me, so when I offered an illustration course last summer as an add-on to my weekly classes they joined in their dozens. Perhaps it helped that I wasn’t charging anything extra for it! Why wasn’t I charging? There were a couple of reasons. The result was a spectacular…
The Show Must Go On: Course Dates and Locations in 2026 and 2027
Thank you all for responding to my last post about Fake George. You were all very kind and gracious about my gullibility. One or two people wondered what Fake George and his silly friend Adrian Bot wanted from me: I don’t really know. If it was an elaborate way to get me to pay Adrian…
It’s Been Intense But I Wouldn’t Change A Thing
November is here and I have started to exhale at last. Back to writing my beloved blog. I hope you noticed my absence. I shall be greatly offended if you did not. It’s been intense. In August I taught for the Urban Sketching Symposium in Poznan, Poland and picked up Covid. Spent much of the…
7th Swiss Symposium Of Urban Sketchers: Part One
Just back from Geneva. Whew! Between Poland and Switzerland just two weeks apart, it’s so good to be back on terra firma. I will tell you all about my trip, but as usual, if you’re hoping for some nice sketches of fairytale Swiss streets of half-timbered houses, along with upbeat descriptions of a great time,…
Everything Is Copy
I was one of the lucky people to have taken part in the annual International Urban Sketching Symposium this August, which took place in the very pretty city of Poznan, in the west of the country. I was one of 18 instructors from all over the world, representing Ireland in my own small but very…