Patrick Brennan's Blog (18)

Today I was working in my studio, when I looked outside and guess what,  the sun was shining and screaming come out and paint, I did just this. I went home gathered my equipment and off I went, bare in mind that I had not used this gear in almost a year. A quick look inside my easel and all seemed to be ok. I got to my destination set up and started to paint It wasn't long…

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The North West Painters Lost one of its founding members earlier this week. Niel Carrigan  His day to day job was as a school teacher but at the weekends he was an avid out door painter, who enjoyed the challenge's of painting the light, around and on the landscape, no matter what the weather and believe you me, we painted in some weather conditions, from wind swept to bright sunny days. On our last trip out the weather was good we went down to the Isle of Doagh in Donegal, where we were…

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Over the winter I have been recycling some of older easels and redesigning two larger ones, (i suppose you could say three as the largest one is actually two parallel for even larger works ) both are counter-balanced, to make it easier to work on…

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Just found this on the Visual Artists Ireland site. I thought some of you might be intrested.

The Cliffs of Moher Art Experience…

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With all this talk around studio spaces, I thought that I would share this photo of my studio?garage. It is a little cramped with all the rest of the house hold junk. At the minut there isent even this space as carpets and some furniture has been moved out of the way for the repainting of the house.…

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Here are some pics of the show before it opens tonight.…

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I have just been looking at the site for Robert Perry and he is the ultimit in outdoor painting. A british modern exponent of this art, he creates his own equiptment and paints quite large paintings outside.  He has also apered in several programs.Worth a look at. Just type in the name in the serch bar.

I havent been out painting in almost three weeks, boy i kind of missed it. Went out today and should have stayed at home and worked in studio. but I had to get out. I had an unfinshed painting from another trip to Five Fingers strand which I thought would be a good bases to start with.Well I went down to the beach first to walk the dog, before returning to the car park high above the strand. Took a few pictuers and promtly steped of a rock and tristed my anckel, not badley just enough to cause… Read on...

Is it just me or is there a certin amount of comercial intrests starting to move in to the site . Are we begining to loose the primary intent to gather people together for the purpous of painting. Should the self intrests of the more profesionl members be catered for elsewhere.

I was fortunite to visit the original gallery about seven years ago, and it was a very well laid out show, including the contemporaries. Each artist had their own space, laid out next to each other. From what i can remember it was quite a walk, but well worth it. They are brilliant examples of plein air painting at its best. I hope that the show in the Dulwich Picture Gallry is as  good. I would encourage you if you are in Torento go mand see the original exhibition space.

While being a member of a group is great for company and not being the only one in the vilage, it has its drawbacks, manily its lack of spontaniety. Groups havce to be organised and planed as far as possible.

Take a look at this little video. not what you would like to happen. you will find it on youtube.

http://Vic Thrill: Painting At The Break Of Day

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Our day out painting today (sunday 29th)  was an experance,our goal was to paint Dunluce castle on the north coast, and for a change the weather forcast was correct,  wet in the morning turning bright and breezy later. On the way we visited the White rocks area which is within site of Dunluce. The wind was quite strong blowing sand about, so we headed on to our target. The…

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The Derry painters had there fourth paint out on easter monday too the Isle of Doagh , we where joined by Mary Crowly. The day and the area where at there glorous best, plenty of sun and the waves where high and crashing on the rocks creating some fantastic scenery to paint. I got two 20"x16" paintings, one took over two hours to compleat and the other less than an hour with a palet knife, I was under a time constraint as I had to be somwhere else shortley. Mary got a water colour  finished,… Read on...

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.…

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this is the more abstract version of in the country

I have found that people cant help looking over the artists shoulder, some do ask first but others well you know.Some of the strangest places where i have encountered curious people,In my early days painting out I was rather shy, so I would go to remot locations, normaly into the hills around Donegal, I found a spot with a good view over Donegal bay, sat down, took out the required equiptment, there was a clear view all around, abslutily not a person in sight, aprox 20 minuets at the point you… Read on...

This was painted from a series of photographs and sketches taken on one of my days in and around co Donegal. The Background hills are simplyfied so they do not distract from the forground.This painting containes both abstract (hills) and represintinal (forground),