Most people would LOVE to rekindle their artistic side. I teach live sketching classes online, and I provide all the beautiful art materials required, in a warm and friendly global community.
I discovered urban sketching in 2012 and became addicted pretty quickly. I found it was cumbersome and awkward to sketch in certain situations, especially standing up, so in 2024 I designed and manufactured a special bag for sketchers on the move, the SketchPocket. Unlike most art bags, it’s smart and elegant, in black or white cactus leather, and looks great with any outfit.
Nowadays there are SketchPockets slung across the shoulders of people across the globe, helping them banish boredom and capture moments of their lives in their sketchbooks, whether mundane or magical.
And once a month I share some tips and techniques about sketching, live online, to my global community. It’s a positive, happy circle of creativity.
And now…for the bit about me.
I’m Róisín Curé. I live in the county of Galway, on the west coast of Ireland. It is wild and natural over here, and in summer the country roads feel like a timeless paradise. In winter it’s bleak and wild and we all count the days until better weather returns.
Sketching transformed my life, pretty much overnight. Although I had drawn forever, I only discovered a daily, or almost daily, practice of drawing whatever was in front of me in 2012. From that moment in Mauritius by the pool, reading Danny Gregory’s Everyday Matters, I knew with certainty that my life was about to change forever.
When you’re sketching, you can’t dwell on your troubles. Simple as that. They’re still there when you shut the sketchbook, but you get a respite. And I have no idea how it works, but eventually you become calmer and less anxious.
Please read through the testimonies my students have been kind enough to send me. Maybe one day you will join my Sketch Club: it’s about the same cost as a few cups of coffee each month. Meantime, start joining in the fun by buying a little sketchbook and a pen – the sketchbook doesn’t need to be fancy, and you can draw with a pencil or a black ballpoint – and just draw wherever you are. You can thank me later.
But this is the About Me section. I have a family, my three children are grown now and I live in south Co. Galway near the sea with my husband and a fluffy terrier called Reuben whom I love dearly.
If you’d like to get to improve your sketching skills, then you can become a member of my new Sketch Club.
Each class lasts anything from 1.5 to 2 hours in length…you’ll be an expert soon, or at least ready to put your OWN unique stamp on your art, in public, anywhere, any time! It’s not as scary as you think – trust me!
And if you want the coolest sketching bag in the world, then check out my SketchPocket on my website, the only place you can buy it.
If you’d like to get to know me a bit better, please check out my YouTube channel, or Instagram, where I am to be found these days. I go by my name: Róisín Curé, with or without accents depending on the platform. Oh – how do I pronounce it? Try this: RO-sheen. Easy!
Love, Róisín
