It was a challenging day, very cold and blustery (last Sunday in March). I keep thinking that other parts of the world are well into Spring. I'm still wearing woolly hats and mittens. But then again, some friends of mine still have snow where they live, so I shouldn't be complaining.
Anyways, I found shelter in the entrance to an office building on Grand Canal Quay. Still, my water container went flying onto my watercolour palette, and I was left with sludge both in the container and the palette. At that stage, it was time to move to pencils and markers.
There were two huge bronze statues, called Ruin of a Giant (Harriet Tubman) (Marcus Garvey), 2024, by Tavares Strachan. I included Harriet in my sketch. Maybe next time I will draw both of them, when I'm not so constrained by finding a dry spot sheltered from the gale. Some locations are better suited to summer sketching.
I retreated to the Daphni pub, in the Boland Mills complex. There doesn't seem to be much else in the area yet, though there is the promise of a whole new space where Google built their new headquarters in Dublin. So far, it's only concrete and wind canyons, and a café that closes at 3pm on a Sunday. The Daphni pub was lovely though, warm and cosy and good service. I sketched some elements of it.
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