Bray Harbour

Lovely time in Bray - we sketched in Bray harbour, away from the busy promenade. Good place to practise boats! Done with Roman Szmal watercolours and colour pencils.

Dawson Chorus at IMMA

Back in Dublin! Sketching at IMMA, with the Dawson Chorus singing in the courtyard!

After the International Urban Sketchers Symposium

If you want to see the  sketchbook flipthrough, go to my YouTube channel. 

During the International Urban Sketchers Symposium

Busy busy during the symposium. Flipthrough of the sketchbook on my YouTube channel. Some of these photos are not exactly in the right ordre! Lots of stickers exchanged during this symposium!

Back in Toulouse before the symposium

And it's good to have air-conditioning again. I never thought I'd say that, but with the climate-change-induced heatwaves we're having, even 17th century houses can't keep the heat out.

I'm not writing very much about our trip - you can hear everything about it on my YouTube sketchbook flipthrough.

A few days in Castelnaudary

We spent 4 nights in Castelnaudary, without air conditioning! It's a gorgeous little town, with lots to discover. And you can take a train to Carcassonne for a day trip too. Flipthrough video on my YouTube channel.

 

Before the International Urban Sketchers Symposium

Traveling and spending a night in Toulouse . If you want to see sketchbook flipthrough, go to my YouTube channel.

Brussels and The Hague

I never sketch much on my trips to Belgium - they are emotionally charged. I know that sketching would help, but somehow I find it hard to motivate myself, even at the airport.

On this occasion, I was also in The Hague, and I did get to sketch a bit on my train journey there. I had to change trains twice, as there was a problem in Rotterdam, and the trains were busy, so I gave up at some stage on the way!

 

Colour swatching

Rearranged my Roman Szmal watercolour pans into the 3 little palettes I have. I went for 2 yellows, 2 reds, 2 blues, a green and some darks for 2 of them, and mostly darks for the third one. Now I feel I can work with them. And I have a record of the colours in one place instead of several sketchbooks.