Bicyclistic

Dublin. A photo.

I’m not mad on these newer style of cobblestone. Maybe it’s their relative newness but they’re a bit fake looking of edge, and kinda funky looking of colour. Having said that, squares, patterns, shapes, lines, and iteration, I could look at all day.

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This is Smithfield, in Dublin’s north inner city as it looks today. You can see the original cobblestones in an old photo I took, the first one in my post on a photo essay of Dublin’s walls.

Some Other Dublin Photos:
   • Dublin West: A Boy and His Pony
   • Sunlight Chambers, Grattan Bridge Lamps
   • Dublin Door: Number 18
   • Abbey Street: That Door
   • Dublin, A Horse

Another Dublin photo. This one is of that door on Middle Abbey Street, right by where my old bus terminus used to be, across the road from where the Aldelphi used to be, and the old Lighthouse come to think of. See what recession’s do, they get you thinking of Dublin in the rare ould times.

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Some Other Photos
   • Dublin West: A Boy and His Pony
   • Sunlight Chambers, Grattan Bridge Lamps
   • Dublin Door: Number 18
   • Teabags On A Window Sill
   • Dublin, A Horse

Regular readers will know that my painting arm, my right, has been out of action for a couple of months and so my other arm, my left, has been in training - learning to draw and to paint. Well here’s an early drawing with my left hand - done about 6 weeks ago - of Neil Gaiman.

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(Ink on a single page of a Canson 9″ x 12″ Sketchbook)

I have a load more drawings like this, mostly portraits from people’s Twitter avatars, but also some cityscapes. At the moment though the left-hand is finally painting, trying to make up for the non-production of the right-hand.

Hopefully I’ll be able to share some new paintings with you very soon, and I might also share some more drawings (though I’d need to scan them - this one I took a photo of and then had to spend a bit of time cleaning it up). Either way I will continue to post photos as I have been for the last month or so.

Drawings by the Right Hand, and Some Photos:
   • Drawing of Genoa, Italy
   • Dublin West: A Boy and His Pony
   • Teabags On A Window Sill
   • Sketchbook Figures
   • Dublin, A Horse

Here’s a Dublin photo for you from the weekend. It’s of Sunlight Chambers on Essex Quay taken from Ormond Quay so as to include the lamps on the western side of Grattan Bridge, a bridge some of you will be inclined to call Capel Street Bridge.

All of which reminds me that I still have an unfinished painting of Grattan Bridge and Sunlight Chambers. I also did a quick sketch painting of a Grattan Bridge lamp-post a fair few years back.

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Some Other Photos
   • Dublin West: A Boy and His Pony
   • Dublin Door: Number 18
   • Teabags On A Window Sill
   • Blue and White
   • Dublin, A Horse

A photo of some daisies growing wild here in Dublin West. It’s hard not to like them when they impress upon you in such numbers.

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Some Other Photos
   • A Boy, His Pony, And His Pink Bicycle
   • Teabags On A Window Sill
   • Little Yellow Flower Things
   • Dublin Door: Number 18

Although my trip to Italy last year was full of spectacular scenery - that yielded for example my painting of Pegli - I was probably happiest taking photos of walls. Only a couple of those were of grafitti mind you, but this particular set I took more than one picture of, as it was one of my favourite images in the city.

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You can see more photos of my trip to Genoa that I posted at the time on IrishKC

Some Other Photos:
   • Dublin Changing Rooms
   • Cambodia: Angkor Wat
   • Caravan at a Wexford Beach
   • Dublin, A Boy And His Pony

-Excuse me Mister?
-D’ya need a hand?
-Could ya get me bike outta there? I’m tryin’ to get this fella out

So I did. With a gimpy arm and a dog on a leash, both barking at and afraid of the pony, I waded into the long grass and fished out his bike. Then I left him to sort out the logistics using just one rope.

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A sunny evening in Dublin West. This never happened in America.

Some Other Photos:
   • Dublin Changing Rooms
   • Caravan at a Wexford Beach
   • Blue and White
   • One Tree

Before the development of apartments and the Luas, and the complete-rejigging of neighbouring Smithfield into a civic space, I used to walk up Bow Street for no good reason other than to walk up Bow Street. Probably because I like walking alongside high lonely walls. Usually there were very few people despite the presence of Jameson’s old distillery.

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Some Other Photos:
   • Dublin, A Horse
   • Little Yellow Flower Things
   • Dublin Changing Rooms
   • Caravan at a Wexford Beach

Dipping into my archives here, which means I had to scan this. Most of my time in Cambodia I used a bicycle for transport, but when I went up river to Angkor I spent 3 days going around on a moped. Less public places than Angkor Wat itself were my favourite spots, but there was no denying what a magnifcent sight the main temple is from every angle.

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Some Other Photos:
   • Dublin Changing Rooms
   • Caravan at a Wexford Beach
   • Dublin, A Horse
   • Lillies, Yellow

A photo of a small tree, somewhere in Ireland. It’s not possible to talk about single trees without sounding corny, so that’s all I have for you.

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Some More Photos
   • Dublin Changing Rooms
   • Caravan at a Wexford Beach
   • Dublin, A Horse
   • Number 18