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Long time, no see. Have been otherwise engaged for the past while and I let this blog slip. Maybe it's time to re-boot. Here'...

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 ...

I've been intending to illustrate a comic for some time. I guess I've always used the excuse that I couldn't find a writer that ...

Today is my wife's birthday and in place of the usual perfume/ costume jewellery/ two week shopping trip to New York, she asked me to do...

Hot off the Press. "The art of Urban Sketching" is a new book put together by Urban Sketchers founder Gabi Campanario and publi...

From time to time I contribute to Leif Peng's Today's Inspiration blog. This week I look at the the box-art of Airfix and Matchbox ...

Spent last weekend in Angoulême, France at the the bandes dessinees or comics festival. 250,000 people descend on a town of just over 40,000...

A Merry Christmas and a happy New Year to you all

On left, the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de l'Assomption and on right a night-time get-together in one of the city's many squares. Just ...

When you're using cheap materials, you're always wondering "what's the catch?". With these acrylics from the euro stor...

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 d...

Some more sketches from in and around Dublin. Any other night in pubs around the city, traditional Irish music resounds in casual gatherings...

Below are a bunch of sketches from an overcast July Dublin. The first is an early morning sketch at the Smithfield vegetable and flower mark...

Some sketches from a recent visit to friends in Sitges, near Barcelona and the airport on the return flight. Departure delayed for 2 hrs due...

Two recent sketches of Dublin. This is the impressive new Grand Canal Theatre designed by Daniel Libeskind and sketched on a blustery sunny ...