Bicyclistic

Here’s some quick sketches of figures I did one sunny day somewhere in Europe. Scanning other sketches I grabbed these and thought I’d post them.

The value of twitter was always in seeing what others said rather than in saying things yourself, even when they weren’t necessarily talking directly to you.
For some this option was overwhelming, or it would have been had they changed from the default setting to pay attention only to what was being said in a [...]

Here’s a photo in the studio from before the last show.
The painting on the art table is Kinsale IV and at this stage was nearing completion.
You can also see the wall of paintings, made from paintings in progress, that changes shape throughout the day.

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You may remember the art table from when [...]

Here are the new paintings that were exhibited at the recent Intonations Art Exhibition in the 2009 Rathmines Festival. All paintings are of Irish scenes.
I’ll add the paintings here one at a time as I post them, so you might want to refresh regularly, or keep an eye on my Twitter updates.

    • Rosmuc: Ag [...]

Rookery
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Here is the painting on which I based the question for painting giveaway #5. The painting is in acrylic on canvas with painted sides. I think it’s 15 inches by 15 inches.
It was painted this month, April 2009 and depicts rooks in a tree where Dublin 20 meets Dublin 10. Indeed I think some [...]

At the moment I have some paintings on display at the Rathmines Festival.
Two of those paintings feature birds. One is of a single rook in flight but if you can be the first person in the comments below to tell me how many rooks feature in the other painting, you can have for free [...]

Some paintings of mine are on display this weekend at the 2009 Rathmines Festival in Dublin.
It’s a group show and takes place in the Swan Centre from noon until 7pm starting on Thursday, April 23 and ending on Sunday, April 26, 2006.
If you’re not familiar with Rathmines, the Swan Centre is a shopping centre on [...]

My studio is in a cobbled stableyard in an estate that runs from the edge of the River Liffey to the top of the Liffey Valley in a beautiful corner of Dublin West quiet close to County Kildare.
I’ve already shown you some shots of inside my studio, so here are some shots of the extraordinary [...]

When I got home from the studio last night there was a nice surprise waiting for me - notification that I’ve won a poster of Dun Laoghaire’s east pier with “The Crevasse” by Edgar Muellar painted on it, and the poster is signed by the artist.
I don’t know that I’ve ever been so far [...]

For Painting Giveaway #4 I asked you what was the name of the finished painting that started off looking like this first picture:

Although it might not seem like it, I knew what the finished painting would look like at this stage.
And for those who thought it looked like a map, specifically of Australia, you [...]