Sandycove, James Joyce Tower, rockpools

Dublin Sketchers were in Sandycove a couple of weeks back, sketching around the James Joyce tower. It was a beautiful day and the sea was a gorgeous colour. There were families nearby and the dads and kids were playing in the rockpools. I don't know who had the most fun.

And it was one of these days when I just kept sketching!

And I was inspired by James Joyce's Ulysses of course! Between the breakfast scene at the Martello Tower and crab fishing in the rockpools, I'm really loving the Olives, Oysters and Oranges theme of this year's Bloomsday project for which our sketchbooks will be exhibited at the Olivier Cornet Gallery!!

'Where's the sugar? O jay, there's no milk.'

'She praised the goodness of the milk, pouring it out.'

'He could hear, of course, all kinds of words changing colour like those crabs about Ringsend in the morning burrowing quickly into all colours of different sorts of the same sand ...'

'God made food, the devil the cooks. Devilled crab.'

'...  and plant with eucalyptus trees. Excellent for shade, fuel and construction.'