A Week in Sweltering Amsterdam with My Family
This year, I brought my family with me to the Urban Sketching Symposium. It provided a nice balance between work and relaxing. My family is unusual in that we occasionally have rows over stupid things,...
View ArticleThe 10th International Urban Sketching Symposium, Amsterdam, July 24th-27th 2019
The 10th International USk Symposium has just wrapped up. It took place in Amsterdam, in the Netherlands. The 9th USk Symposium was held in Porto, Portugal, in July 2018. One of the organisers, Nelson...
View ArticleSummer Days in Galway
Back from Amsterdam last Sunday. Dublin Airport and a Citylink bus at 9.15pm. A Dublin cocky lad gets on the bus and asks the bus driver his name. Says he likes to know the name of his driver. Driver...
View ArticleHe’s Just Not That Interested In Me (I Need A Nice Stick)
I was telling my girl Liv about my book sales. “Is it a bestseller?” she asked. She knows it is, but she also knows I like to say it over and over again. She’s kind. “Why yes,” I said in an animated,...
View ArticleUrban Sketching Indoors: Workshop in Galway 24th-26th October 2019
(Update: this workshop is now fully booked. Workshops planned for Haarlem, Netherlands, June 2020; Kent, UK, September 2020; Turin, Italy, October 2020. Dates to be confirmed.) The end of the clement...
View ArticleThe Future Of Creativity Is Safe
I think of people driving through my village Ballinderreen on their way somewhere. Ballinderreen is not usually the destination, being a “blink and you’ll miss it” village, with little more than a...
View ArticleUrban Watercolour Workshop, Haarlem, The Netherlands, 26th-28th June 2020
The beautiful city of Haarlem in the Netherlands could have been designed with urban sketching in mind. Join me for a watercolour workshop there 26th-28th June 2020! The post Urban Watercolour...
View ArticleSome Flowers, And A Request For Advice
I have wonderful friends who live nearby. We get together a lot – walking our dogs, swimming in the sea – and we eat together a lot too. Life is too short, as we all know, so my good friends and I make...
View ArticleDo-It-Yourself Art Stuff Roll – And Some Colourful Inks
I am on holiday, after an extremely busy year. Indulge me while I recap. I wrote and illustrated a book, taught ten workshops at home and abroad, ran classes for kids…and did all the usual stuff a...
View ArticleAt The Barbershop (Again)
Back to the barbershop to sketch. One of the reasons I love to sketch there is that because I have done it so often I can try out new things. We all tend to revert to our natural way of making art,...
View ArticleCompostela Ilustrada! Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 8th-10th November 2019
I have just returned from the beautiful medieval city of Santiago de Compostela in northern Spain, where I attended the fabulous Compostela Ilustrada sketching event. (Warning: this may be an...
View ArticleCreativity – All Day To Do It
“There are 35,000 people coming in and out of University College Dublin every day,” my colleague Michael Brennan told me the other evening. Michael is a book salesman, and is in charge of selling my...
View ArticlePrints from “An Urban Sketcher’s Galway”
Beautifully presented giclée prints for sale this Christmas The post Prints from “An Urban Sketcher’s Galway” appeared first on Róisín Curé Online Art Magazine.
View ArticleFestive Fun in Dublin City, and a Grudge Match
A Christmas Shopping Safari One crisp, cold winter’s night a few weeks ago, in Dublin on a sketching trip, I came to the end of South Anne Street, entered Grafton Street and was confronted by a vision...
View ArticleThe Christmas Blog Post
Christmas Eve It’s Christmas in Kilcolgan, in our little corner of windswept west of Ireland. On Christmas Eve my daughter Liv and I went up the road to the ruins of Tyrone House to stretch our legs;...
View ArticleHappy New Year!
30th December 2019 My students are so full of enthusiasm for sketching in 2020 that it has inspired me in turn, so I am making sure my sketching kit is never far away. Here is my 15-year-old, Liv,...
View ArticlePractical Urban Sketching: Workshop, Dublin, 20th-23rd March 2020
When it comes to urban sketching, there is a world of tips and techniques to make your experience easier and better. From choosing handy tools to clever ways to paint: from sneaky ways to master...
View ArticleGetting Attention Will Make You A Better Artist
I saw this TED Talk the other night, and I had a few thoughts that I’d like to share with you. Joseph G-L seems like a very nice person, and showing the vulnerability in the talk that he did was...
View ArticleSketching Is Getting Me Through January
January is awful, weather-wise, and this year is no exception. However I’m cheering myself up with a good bit of sketching. Technicolor in Neachtain’s After a long gap, Urban Sketchers Galway met in...
View ArticleCapture Your Family In Sketches
One of the most satisfying things I do as an urban sketcher is to capture my family in sketches. While I’m not one for putting into words the love I feel for those closest to me, it’s there on the page...
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