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How I Fell In Love With France, 1975 -2022…& A Week at Clermont...
July 1975 I’m seven years old, I’m on a ferry to France with my parents and brothers and sisters for a camping holiday and I’m waaay overexcited. It’s an overnight trip and I am an early riser. I...
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A Bit Of An Owl Chat, And Art In Gardens – 6th-10th June
Monday 6th June It’s a Bank Holiday in Ireland and there’s a talk on in the Burren Nature Sanctuary. A guy is coming to talk about barn owls. I ask my family if they would like to come along. “We’re...
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Summer Days of Sketching: 25th May – 4th June
Wednesday 25th June I am a believer in “drawing in the cracks” and so I sketch the view from the post office in my village, while I wait for the kids (my girl Liv and her classmate and friend Mattie,...
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My Sketching Week, 9th – 22nd May
Monday 9th May I want to paint the roses my lovely family bought to welcome me home from hospital, and I finally get my chance late on Monday evening. I can’t get my view right – on the table they’re...
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Not A Lot Of Sketching Going On…April 23rd – May 6th
Saturday 23d April I am feeling feverish. I have class in the early afternoon, so I take two paracetamol – I never take anything at all, but I need to kick the fever as it’s too late to cancel class....
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My Sketching Week: Easter with the Family 16th-22nd April
Saturday 16th April The subject for my sketchalong class is a well that my daughter stumbled upon in a field up the road from us in Kilcolgan. We get it all drawn, but have only got as far as the moss...
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My Sketching Week, 9th-15th April…The Fish Are Safe!
Saturday 9th April The day starts off really cold – in fact there is frost on the grass when I go outside to my studio. But it starts to look better and my youngest, Liv, and I head into Galway City....
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My Sketching Week 31st March – 8th April
Thursday 31st March In the morning, I spend a couple of hours in Galway City with my younger brother Cormac, who lives in the south of Spain. He is considering third-level education for his wonderful...
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A Book Launch…with a difference
My new book has just been published. It’s called Dublin In Sketches And Stories, and it’ll be in the shops from tomorrow 20th October. I thought there was going to be a launch, but I was vague about...
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Schedule and Topics for Class, September – December 2021
Welcome to my class schedule for the next few months. Everyone is welcome, whatever your level. Because you follow along with me, you won’t get lost. My aim is to encourage you to LOVE making art –...
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Nature…In All Its Glory
Hotel For Wasps? My bedroom has been a mess of late. When I say “of late” I mean for the last ten or fifteen years. In that time, my amazing daughter Liv has grown to be a formidable young woman: she...
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Sketch Clinic Over an hour and a half, you will draw and paint along with me as I make a fully-guided sketch. There will be a 10-minute coffee break after an hour and a half, followed by an informal...
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Product: Sketch With Roisin Urban Sketching Kit
I am very excited to announce that my urban sketching kits are available for pre-order, and will be sent out by 8th November. There are only six available at the moment but within a couple of weeks I...
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Summertime…And The Sketching Is Soothing
Saturday 15th August I’m restless. I want to make the most of my free Saturday. It’s warm, but not so sunny. I want to go into town to sketch the Potter’s Market, which will be in Galway City for just...
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The Lockdown Is Over (For Now)
Tuesday 21st July I dropped my children, Paddy (18) and Liv (16) to the sailing club to start their new jobs as sailing instructors. It was a grey day but I had been sketching in a 5km radius, or...
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Sketching in Morocco: September 13th – 21st & September 23rd...
A Dream Sketching Holiday Are you dreaming of your next sketching trip? Cast your mind to nine days in Morocco: the desert, the food, the architecture, the oases, the date palms, the people. In...
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Glorious Colour and Beautiful Line
Friday 26th June “For every old sock, there’s an old shoe.” I stop by a French bakery on the outskirts of Galway City, wait in a socially-distant queue and buy all the pastries I can reasonably buy...
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Still Messing About In Boats
Sunday 21st June There’s a place I have sketched many times. It is called Killeenaran Quay. It has colourful boats and a wall with a bridge, and sea and seaweed, and loads of sky that is usually a...
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Saturday 15th August I’m restless. I want to make the most of my free Saturday. It’s warm, but not so sunny. I want to go into town to sketch the Potter’s Market, which will be in Galway City for just...
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