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Dublin Plein Air 2023

Sunday the 25th June, Ardgillan Castle

  • Watercolours on a concertina art book on a very rainy day !!
painting the view over Skerries
towards the castle
view of the Mourne Mountains
Castle and gardens
Coffee Time
Clouds rolling in

Saturday the 24th June, Farmleigh House

Friday the 23rd June, Donabate strand

Thursday the 22nd June, Malahide

The view out to the Estuary at Malahide
The Estuary road Malahide
Coffee, Malahide main street
Seafront park at Malahide, (the courting couple were of my vintage and really should know better!)

Wednesday the 21st June, Balbriggan Harbour

Good in places, but perhaps too many elements in the composition.

Tuesday the 20th June, Botanic Gardens

Some heavy showers today. Attended a demonstration by Tony Robinson in the morning, who recommended the use of thumbnail sketches to check the tonal variance in a composition before starting. Headed for the glasshouse for the afternoon.

Monday the 19th June, Skerries Harbour

A slow day to start (so rusty) but then tried using Gouache which I was happy with

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Taken, from Nature 2

Some more paintings at the exhibition

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Taken, from Nature

Apologies for not posting during October. Have been busy getting work together for an exhibition in Athlone this November. Opening night 6pm on the 4th November in the basement of Burgess Department store on the main street of Athlone. Here are some of the work

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Mon 19th Sept

Some of the work from this evening.

As ever things did not work out exactly as planned and then a last painting got close to the goal.

Have courage of your convictions and stick to your vision
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Work from 12th September

Great to see some of the crew back. Some of the suggestions seemed to work well and a bit of crac

J’s 1 min gif of M
M’s gif of J
C’s 1 min gif of J
C’s 1 min gif of M
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12th Sept 22

Art club back, some life drawing on the agenda, with A1 flip chart paper and charcoal

Then was thinking of doing some dynamic sketches and making some Gifs

Create GIFs From Images

  1. Open the Gallery app on your device, and select the images of your choice.
  2. Tap the three-dot More button on the bottom panel and select Create > GIF.
  3. Within the editor, you can adjust the playback speed and direction and other settings as you like. …
  4. Once done, tap Save