Tony Robinson's Blog (13)

An Art workshop for adults with artist Marja van Kampan will take place in Enniscorthy Library on Thursday, September 3^rd at 7.00pm.

 

In this workshop artist Marja van Kampen will demonstrate her style of painting followed by a practical art workshop for participants: Learn how to explore your own creativity. No experience needed. Materials…

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Click on the link below for an article on the recent discovery of a painting by one of the fathers of modern landscape and plein air painting.

http://www.fineartconnoisseur.com/Constable-Painting-Discovered-in-London/18215042

Annie Cahill, Phil Hofler, Tom King, George McHugh, Neil O'Keeffe, Tony Robinson, Karen Scannell and Louise Treacy gotr their brushes wet in and around the village of Duncormick for a first paint-out of 2014. Wet and chilly to start but brightened up with clear light and strong cloud shapes in the afternoon. Most of the group settled in nearby Cullenstown where there is an amazing piece of 'outsider art';…

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Australian Plein Air Painters taken from Australian TV Channel ABC.

http://www.abc.net.au/landline/content/2013/s3843587.htm

Well worth a…

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A beautiful day hosted by Michael McGuire who has been telling us about how great this place is for ages. Why didn't we listen? He's dead right, especially on a striking spring day like today. It was peaceful and only a few souls about, mostly walking the dog along the cliff paths and along the shore. 5 minute trip into the village of Fethard-on-Sea for coffee and a roll at lunchtime and we decided to ignore the harbour there and return to the cliffs in the afternoon.

Present: Laura…

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The website, www.artintheopen.org went live a couple of months ago and already a large number of artists have registered for Europe's biggest plein air event, forming the nucleus of another exciting festival. Extra names will be added below over the coming weeks as new…

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A grand day out by the banks of Bannow Bay ..... See for yourself -

Notice how these two pros avoid the sunlight falling directly on their paintings by turning 90 degrees from their subject, turning to look and…

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On Friday's Culture Night, (23rd September) among several events taking place in Wexford, Plein Eire's  Kevin Freeney, Paul Maloney and Tony Robinson took part in a 'live' portrait painting session from 5.30 until 7.15pm in Spectrum Art Shop while onlookers could walk through, chat or pop back to see the progress.

Model for the evening was Wexford Rose, Mary Kehoe who kindly agreed to provide the inspiration for the trio.

Meanwhile, just around the corner in Wexford Library,…

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continuation from blog post:'A Bit  of Culture'....

                                   The paparazzi...

 

                                  Meanwhile, the tension mounts over the photographic exhibition.

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The countdown to the festival has officially begun.

 

Months of planning and preparation by the small committee and volunteers make up the AITO festival iceberg below the waterline. Fundraising, wheeling and dealing, meetings, arguing and communicating, re-designing logos, building websites, more meetings, stakeholders and sponsors, evaluating, re-evaluating,…

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Further to the earlier blog experiment, in which I posted some non-plein air drawings done over the winter, here are a few paintings done when, if braver, I'd have been out painting in the cold.

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While some headed for the Maldives or the auld gite during winter, like many other plein air Paddies, I head towards the warmth of the life-drawing studio. So the drawings below aren't plein air but they are what fills the vacuum (when plein air isn't there).

This is a selection of drawings made during the RHA marathon week (you pay to go) in November 2009. There are 3 more of these week-long sessions during March, April and May… Read on...