Blog
Painting In A Glorious Garden: Mount Congreve In June
Friday 13th June This June 14th and 15th I’ve been invited to take part in a summer art festival in Mount Congreve in Co. Waterford.
June 19, 2025
Blog
The Importance Of Good Values
There are few things that will help improve your sketching more than getting to know your values.
January 23, 2024
Lessons
Urban Sketching Kit 1: Watercolours
PREMIUM With an almost endless choice of watercolours to choose from, it can feel daunting to choose just a handful for your urban sketching paintbox. I’d like to share my choices with you.
January 31, 2018
Lessons
Making Colours Pop – As Easy as 1, 2, 3
PREMIUM Sketchers often wonder why their watercolours don’t “pop” with bright, clear colour. The solution is really easy, and I describe it in this article in 3 simple steps.
January 24, 2018
Lessons
Know Your Values: Speed and Light with Versatile Indigo
PREMIUM article. Light and shadow can be effectively conveyed with the use of just one colour added to an ink line. Here the colour used is indigo, but Payne’s grey is equally effective.
July 19, 2017
-Travel
Sketching Coconut Harvesting in Mauritius
The Coconut harvesters of Mauritius risk their lives to bring us their bounty – and to let Róisín sketch them at their work.
May 8, 2015
I love your demos. Thank you sooooo much
You are very welcome Patricia, thank you for taking the time to comment 🙂
Hello Roisin, I may be late for the session at 5pm today. Can you explain how I will view this session (live or recorded)?
Hi Paula, it will be recorded so no need to worry. I often miss comments on this page so send all correspondence to the email address I included. Thank you!