Lunchtime in Bollards, Kilkenny

Grand Canal dock, Dublin

Here are some sketches I did around Dublin's Grand Canal dock during the breaks at the Offset creative festival. It's a lovely part of town re-developed around one of the large canal docks that opens out into the river Liffey.

Just a pigment of my imagination

When you're using cheap materials, you're always wondering "what's the catch?".

With these acrylics from the euro store, it's that the don't completely dry lightfast and so the layers drag into each other as you wash one colour over another - oh! and the fact that the colour selection is the pigment equivalent of chocolate "flavoured" candy bars.

Anyhow. I got my €2 euro's worth. The kids will find some use for them.

Around the back of the Cathedral, Kilkenny

The view from my window

Wet Twilight Sketching

Sometimes it's nice to get back to basics, put away all the groovy drawing materials and just sketch with what you've got.
This drawing was completed with a €2 set of acrylics from the euro discount store (including shaggy excuse for a brush), some ice pop sticks and pieces of cardboard torn from a coffee carton. The only sop to proper drawing equipment was a black felt tip pen I had on me.
It ain't sophisticated, but somehow it's exactly what sketching is supposed to be - fast, impressionistic and less than perfect.