Pencils4tea 27 Feb

A lovely session with Pencils4Tea. Used mostly pencil, neocolor and some Stabilo Woody crayons, I think

Sketch with Suhita

Warming up for One Week 100 People.  A "sketch with Suhita" session.

One more sketch in Ranelagh

And also, as soon as I was back from Cill Rialaig, it was straight into getting things organised for the Dublin Sketchers exhibition at the Ranelagh Arts Center. I quite like this little sketch done in Urban Health - my favourite café in Ranelagh.

Stand with Ukraine

As soon as I got back from Cill Rialaig - at a rally to support Ukraine. Then sketching people while having a hot chocolate to warm up.

Cill Rialaig - large concertina sketchbook

Done in an A4 Seawhite of Brighton sketchbook. Lots of play with ink (ina-ho - why don't they make it anymore?).  Also, lots of Gansai Tambi paint, tempera stick, other inks, splashing, scratching and using found objects to make interesting marks.

Cill Rialaig - oil pastel on tempera

Had great fun experimenting with oil pastels on top of tempera. All in little thumbnail format. So much fun exploring what kind of marks I want more of in my paintings.

Stone walls

One of the few finished paintings from my two weeks in Cill Rialaig. I still don't know what I'm actually going to paint. I am home nearly two weeks as I write this and I haven't painted yet. But I trust that it will all come when I'm ready!

Cill Rialaig - Medium concertina sketchbook

Lots of catching up to do. This one is in reverse order. Not sure I will be able to post all the pictures on Instagram. Some pages I reworked more with gouache. Other, I just drew in ink on top of the background (ink and gansai tambi) because I loved the background so much I didn't want to lose it!