Goggin’s Pub & Georgian Houses

'Goggin's Pub' Monkstown. Co Dublin.

This is again on the theme of on the spot painting: I seem to be posting these since the first post. This is me though. I’m primarily an out door painter/artist. The watercolour sketch above is unusual for me to paint these type of compositions - pubs…(public house) and houses. It seems like there’s a sub-conscious ‘magnet’, as i love building’s as much as landscapes. This pub in question is full of history and i pass it as much as I’ve hot dinners.. lol!  The sun awnings had me drawing to it, just like the ‘Coffee Dock’ post below. It was the most unusual colour of green I’ve seen: a sort of  jade/minty green which looked glorious in the full sun. If you look closer, you can see the Eircom phone box in the fore ground, which shows the ‘new from old’  structures.

'Georgian Houses' Monkstown. Co. Dublin.

Here as above, colour is, and always was my hidden theme or ‘language’. The colour of the far left house with it’s most unusual colour slated roof: (a purplish/umber shade) has given me encouragement to paint this. I seem to extract pretty mundane subjects and then turn them on they’re head, so to speak. this appears to be the case here. The backround tree’s we’re so nice and crisp. The leaf hasn’t budded as yet, and trees in this state can look as beautiful bare, than in full foliage - to me anyhow. Roofs can differ in many sizes, colours and styles. This is why i experiment as often as possible with the so many variations - Loft, concave, apex; etc. Drawing them too can give many complex and frustrating surprises.