Latest Sketches

Georgian Houses on Longford Terrace, Dun Laoire.

This sketch was done ‘on the spot’. (Done there and then)  I love doing these spontaneous sketches as they are sometimes better! This one in particular i liked as it has lovely colours that flow into each other. That’s why doing it like this can be fun and you never know with watercolour: it can turn out just what watercolour is made for, speed and transparancy at it’s best.

Blackrock Village, Blackrock, Co Dublin.

Another watercolour i was happy with. It’s NOT a finished ‘master piece’. It is however the bones of a finished painting. If you look closely you will see that notes have been made. The time, date, and place are written; also are notes of the weather conditions and notes of sun direction, colours of buildings, etc. (All these notes may not be visible) When i start a painting these notes beside the sketches are absolutely essential for me. Like a student doing homework, these serve as reminders when i get back home into the studio for my foundation to the start of a painting if i forget, i can make immediate reference to my notes. I doesn’t matter where they are - it’s all part of what sketches are: references