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It's Friday again - how the time is flying! There was a call for a visit to the Chester Beatty Library for the past few weeks so it's off to Dublin Castle and the Chester Beatty we go this Sunday. It is a very interesting area, with the Dubh Linn gardens to explore if the weather is fine.

The Derry painters had another day out this time we went to Inch castle on inch island. The day started of by being very fogy, when this cleared we had a warm and bright day, with the light staying bright but constantly moving changing the sceen quicker than we could capture it. We however did get a cople of paintings. We hope to get out again soon.…

Well hello there!



It's Friday again, how the time flies. This Sunday we are going to keep it nice and central - seeing as the weather isn't the nicest! The RHA has some interesting new exhibits taking place so I'm sure there will be something for everyone!



Meeting at 2pm, inside the main door and back there again at 4pm. We will most likely go to a cafe on Baggott Street afterwards as the cafe in the RHA closes before we finish up.



Link to…

It took a while to organise but 3 seperate presentations were made recently, on behalf of Art in the Open, of plein air paintings made during last year's festival : -

First is a watercolour by Grahame Booth, "6 Wexford Doorways" seen being handed to Mayor of Annapolis, Josh Cohen by our guest artist, David Diaz, chair of …

Your Plein Eire profile page or 'My Page' is a shop window for your art on the web.  If you google yourself, your page will come up somewhere in Google's list and the more you post and interact, the higher it will appear on the list.

While membership of Plein Eire is open only to artists, we know the site is visited by galleries and buyers who have bought paintings and given commissions on the basis of what they have found here. So how your window to the…

Every evening at dusk, I see the same sight...hundreds of crows heading for their bedding, in the forest ! I just thought I'd share this fabulous occasion with you. Wednesday 12th/01/11.

Well hello again and happy new 2011.



I hope you all enjoyed your break and are eager to brave the hangovers this Sunday. The thing'll be on at the usual time of 2:00 and this week sees a welcome return to the National Art Gallery!! Hooray!!



Mary has it that there's a Turner exhibition on there for January. The theme is "Colour and light, caring for Turner's…

My plein air painting of an Irish cottage at our local Frontier Culture Museum, here in Virginia, USA was the first painting/artist featured on the website, "Irish Fireside".  Plein Eire was mentioned in the short article with the painting.  I thought you all would be interested in seeing it.  The site is very nice, and they have a fun podcast series too.  Enjoy!

I didn't get to paint today...so I turned my creative juices to a bit of poetry. Had fun composing this!!

ODE TO THE PLEIN AIR PAINTER

Starting New Year, what are your goals,

as an artist who paints "En Plein Air"?

To increase you skills, pay all your bills,

and become an "Art Millionare"?

By January first, become fully immersed,

in what inspires us to create.

Prepare for all weather, travel "light as…

Hi all!

It's that time of the year and I think some mulled wine and pies in the Christmas markets is just what us artists could do with this Sunday! Everyone is most welcome to join us - we'll be meeting at 2pm at the luas side entrace to the markets, sketching/painting/sipping mulled wine and meeting up with those who go wandering at 4pm in the lower markets area, by the stage.

See blog for details!

Happy Christmas everyone in Plein Eire and look…

Before anybody else does, let me say; yes it is great to find a hat to fit the shape of one's head!

Here's Kevin..."ready for action" on our latest nocturne paint out..Very cool dude!!

....andTony arriving with some…

Take a Bow

6"x6" oil on linen panel

One of the dog paintings I am working on for the holiday season.

The Sub House

8"x10" oil on linen panel

This is a great, quirky house on Topsail Island, North Carolina, USA. They painted it like a "yellow submarine", complete with a plaque that names it as The Sub House, with a yellow sub, like from the Beatles' album. That dates me. I loved the wild…

Last of Its Kind

6"x6" oil on linen panel

I haven't done much plein air painting since getting home from Maine. I did paint some while at the beach in early October, but not a great deal. So, I have been working on some miniature oils which I will be offering in a local gallery for the holidays. I have some…