King's Inns

Dublin Sketchers were invited to King's Inns by SPAB Ireland and it was such a treat to have access to the indoors of this amazing James Gandon building. Of course it was overwhelming, and these sketches are not my best. I did add colour after I got home and it improved things somewhat! But I feel I will need to go there again so I can relax into my sketching. But I managed to find Ulysses connections of course!

This one was a poor drawing (I ran out of space at the top, rookie mistake), but I did have a chat with one of my fellow sketchers about Greek columns while I was drawing this and I learned a lot, like they're actually not straight lines, but curves, fatter towards the bottom. And another sketcher gave me a good tip for the base of columns - draw a loose narrow ellipse in pencil first to get the shape right before you do anything else.

'AN ELECTOR: Three times three for our future chief magistrate!'

'Parallax. I never exactly understood. There’s a priest. Could ask him. Par it’s Greek: parallel, parallax.' (Bloom is always interested in technical questions, and I thought this one quite fitting)

This is a view of the main dining hall, which is also used for weddings!

'Up in the Coombe with chummies and streetwalkers and then the rest of the year sober as a judge.' (Bloom often thinks about the damage done by excessive alcohol on the families of the men who drink too much. Interesting, to me that is, that my main preoccupation throughout is more with Bloom than Stephen Dedalus. It's just that I don't find Dedalus that interesting, maybe?)

This is the upstairs lounge, where apparently the judges retire after their meal!

'Power those judges have. Crusty old topers in wigs.'