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Outside Grogan's pub - South William's St. Sunday 2nd @ 2pm

Well hello, hello bright and shiny sketcher peoples.

I hope this update finds you well? The weather is going to be a very

interesting factor in this weekend's sketching. It is proposed that we

meet for the SoGo

festival in and around George's Street in the city centre. There's fun

aplenty to be had and I'm sure myriad colourful characters to draw if

only they'll stop swirling for a few minutes. In addition, there'll… Read on...

Added by Dublin Sketchers on April 30, 2010 at 15:51 — No Comments

Borrowed Memories copy.jpg Kevin had asked me to post my painting, "Borrowed Memories". It is not a plein air piece, so I am posting it here. It is a triptych, done on three canvases, each 42"x30", t…

Borrowed Memories copy.jpg

Kevin had asked me to post my painting, "Borrowed Memories". It is not a plein air piece, so I am posting it here. It is a triptych, done on three canvases, each 42"x30", then bolted together. I did it from memories of childhood trips up north to the Boundary Waters area of northern Minnesota where my mother was from. We would canoe on the lakes, and I…

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Added by Elaine Hurst on April 27, 2010 at 13:55 — No Comments

St. Anne's Park - 2pm @Cafe!

This Sunday we might as well take advantage of the fine weather again and head for another outdoors location - St. Anne's Park. Link here to the layout of the Park.

We will meet at 2pm, at the Cafe. Image below showing location of Cafe. We will also meet back at the Cafe at 4pm!…

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Added by Dublin Sketchers on April 23, 2010 at 14:53 — No Comments

Centenary Stores Wexford

Added by Philip Dundon on April 20, 2010 at 12:07 — 1 Comment

Sunday 18th April - Dun Laoghaire

Hi all,

This week we will meet at the entrance of the Dun Laoghaire DART Station at 2pm.

The 'Dublin Painting and Sketching Club' are having their 132nd annual exhibition in the County Hall, Dunlaoghaire, it is on from April 12th to 25th April. 11am to 5pm.(Sun)No entry charge & well worth a visit!

The Vintage Fair is also taking place in the Royal Marine. Admission is €6 to get into the fair.

Hopefully the weather will be nice, dry and sunny and it should be… Read on...

Added by Dublin Sketchers on April 16, 2010 at 16:46 — No Comments

Plein Eire West, Cong 2010.

A great turnout for our first PleinPaint day in Cong. And what a great day we had, weather perfect.

Joe McCaul havin' fun!

He was…

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Added by Plein Eire Administrator on April 13, 2010 at 7:01 — No Comments

Sunday @ 2pm, Experience Japan at Farmleigh House, Phoenix Park!

Hi all,

Well the most votes were for Phoenix Park - so Experience Japan it will be!

It sounds great anyhow so hopefully the weather will stay fine. Farmleigh is a fifteen-minute walk from the Castleknock Gate, which is where the event is being held. We will meet here at 2pm!

The event runs until 4pm, so we will go for coffee then…

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Added by Dublin Sketchers on April 9, 2010 at 15:00 — No Comments

Raven Wood

Hadn't time to paint en plain air today, so I photographed this scene, and painted it in the studio when I got home. I like this one.The ship was my own idea.

Added by Philip Dundon on April 3, 2010 at 20:27 — No Comments

Sketching at Dublin City Hall, 2pm this Sunday!

This Sunday it will be Dublin City Hall. Dublin

Sketchers have only visited here once before and it was very

interesting. It is also nice and central for Easter Sunday.

The Rotunda has free entry but there is also an interesting exhibition

taking place for anyone who is interested, with a cover charge of €4

for adults (Senior Citizens: €2 (On production of travel pass etc.),

Students: €2 (On production of student card) andUnwaged: €2)

Meet at 2pm, at… Read on...

Added by Dublin Sketchers on April 2, 2010 at 13:54 — 5 Comments

Botanic Gardens this Sunday, 28th @2pm

Botanic Gardens is the sketching venue this Sunday, lots to sketch and it's kind of independent of the weather with the toasty glasshouses! 2pm again, meet outside the cafe! www.botanicgardens.ie/

Botanic Gardens are in Glasnevin; buses that go there are the 19, 83, and 13.

Everyone welcome, if you haven't sketched with us before don't be shy…

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Added by Dublin Sketchers on March 27, 2010 at 8:30 — No Comments

Studio work 2010

Added by Philip Dundon on March 21, 2010 at 22:31 — 1 Comment

Better than freezing the nuts off your easel.

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.

Tony W. in the RHA drawing rooms. oil on canvas 40 x 60 cms.…

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Added by Tony Robinson on March 20, 2010 at 23:30 — 1 Comment

Hibernianation.

Tony Robinson's trial blog:

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...

Added by Tony Robinson on March 20, 2010 at 11:00 — 4 Comments