Happy Christmas!

Happy Christmas everyone - hope you all enjoy the holidays!

We will resume our regular sketching on Sunday 10th of January - meaning everyone will be back into their normal routine and back in Dublin! If anyone wants to arrange some impromptu sketching meet-ups before then, just put up a post and see if anyone is about!

See you all in the New Year!!

Tracy

Christmas wishes to all Dublin Sketchers!

Happy Christmas all, I hope to be able to join in again in the Sketching activities, in the New year. Keep warm!!

anything planned for tomorrow, the 20th? if not is anyone intersted in the national gallery on merrion square? it's warm inside, and central!

tom

free-for-all at thisisnotashop

Sorry for putting this up right after a new post has gone up, but I think lots of you will be interested in this:
http://www.thisisnotashop.com/index.php/whats_on/detail/3rd_annual_christmas_art_fair/

Sunday 13th December

Hey lads. It's that wonderful time of year where everything merits a beer. Even our little group :) With that in mind we're meeting this Sunday at the Christmas market. There'll be beer and frankfurters and a giant slide with Santa's Slide written on the side of it. Please do feel free to bring a sketchpad but it's not obligatory, this weekend is all about the Christmas drinks. I'll likely bring a little one for scribbley drawings.

We'll meet at the top of the ramp to the market in the docklands. Let's stick to the usual time of 1:00. I hope to see lots and lots of you there :) This will be my last sketching meetup before the new year so if I don't see you, have a wonderful Christmas!! Oh, and do please eat all of the pie.

Stephen

Sunday 13th December

Hey lads,
    As it's getting close to Christmas I think we need some beers :o) Happily the Christmas market is opening up in the IFSC this weekend. Just in time to facilitate us. So I propose we have sketching/beers in the docklands on Sunday. Whatcha think?

Stephen

Antiques Fair Dun Laoghaire Sunday 6th

The venue for this Sunday 6th December is a bit different but should hopefully provide some interesting options. There's an antiques and collectors fair in Dun Laoghaire which we thought would make interesting sketching. It's in a beautiful hotel, lots of stalls with antiques, collectables, artefacts and bits and pieces, as well as people milling about. If the weather is fine, you can always venture out into Dun La La itself.

Meet at 1pm at the entrance to the Royal Marine hotel weilding a sketch pad (hotel is off Marine Road, on the left as you walk away from the sea, go past Pavilion Theatre and it's tucked in behind the shops on the left). Nearest DART is Dun Laoghaire.

http://www.royalmarine.ie/?r=3748008&gclid=CPzM1vvkvZ4CFWlr4wodMl2nmA

Afterwards we will meet up in Hughes and Hughes book shop on Marine Road at 3pm, in the upstairs coffee shop for a natter.

Jessica will try to get some free tickets to the Fair, if not we may have to pay €3.50 but all of the admission charge will be donated to Dun Laoghaire Lifeboat.

With over 40 dealers exhibiting and selling a wide range of antiques and collectors items there's plenty for all tastes, including lots of beautiful items as Christmas gifts or to decorate the Christmas table. More info at http://www.vintageireland.eu/events/details/17-dun-laoghaire-lifeboat-fundraiser.html

Jessica's mobile is 086 818 5537 if you need contact on the day.

James

Sketchy Sunday 6th!

Well, I'm away again this weekend, whoever knew I could be this busy!!

Are there any sketches from last Sunday? Could people maybe send them to the gmail address if possible and we'll pop them on the blog - it's great to see what people do each week! Plus the Science Gallery are interested to know what was done ;)

Please post ideas and places you'd like to visit this Sunday as comments, the more the better! I think that James' idea of the Bleeding Horse could be a good location this week..

Have a good one!! I'll be busy sipping on some mulled wine in Stockholm :P

Tracy

Sunday 29th November

The weather is starting to get pretty cold for outdoor events. That or I need to cut the tips of the fingers off my otherwise very manly woolen gloves. Uhuh. Anyway I maintain the plasma drip to the right there alone is reason enough to head to Trinity's Science gallery thing this weekend.

It's basically an exhibition of the weird and wonderful things that happen when science meets design. There should be myriad sketching opportunities. Also it's free :) We'll meet at the usual time of 1:00 on Sunday outside the Pearse Street entrance. You'll see the exhibition from the outside with a giant "What if...?" sign in the window so you'll know you're in the right place. If I'm not there by ten past, start without me :)

We'll likely hit the long stone afterward at three on the basis that Mahaffeys now sucks. If it's your first time please don't be shy about talking to random people with sketchpads. That's kind of a valid life rule I've found. You can always outrun someone who's desperately clutching sheets of paper while dropping pencils.

Stephen

Where to sketch this Sunday?

Decided to start the ball rolling nice and early this week - get in plenty of ideas!! Weather is looking extremely dodgy, so I think indoors is a definite requirement!

Any events or exhibitions coming up that you would like to see?

Post all ideas as comments please!!

Dublin Sketchers Exhibition

Just to lay down on the blog an idea that has been floating around amongst various people, and some of the ideas .....

- That we should have an exhibition.
- That people can exhibit if they want to.
- That we could approach the Print Museum about using their upstairs space (Mary has a contact there).
- That we could use the Loft, near Thomas Street. Suzanne has a contact there.
- It might be appropriate to have the exhibition around Bloomsday. Bloomsday 2010 is a Wednesday, perhaps we could launch on the Thursday.
- That there might be about 20 members of the group who might want to exhibit, and contribute to cost of hiring a space for a week.
- That we could design a poster.
- That we could charge €1 entry towards costs.
- That people could either frame their sketches, or we could hang them "washing line" style around the space.
- Could some pictures be "finished" and could some reflect the "sketching" nature of the group.
- Have a cool and groovy opening night....


Many other thoughts are probably floating around - any one want to put any forward here?

Jessica

From IMMA

I enjoyed the session today. I started with a sculpture in wood of a face, and drew the face from lots of different angles - two are shown here. It felt like more of an exercise in seeing the same thing from different angles, rather than completing each drawing. The woman's face is based on a drawing in the "traces" exhibition - sorry, can't remember the artist's name, but it was a striking blue background with simple line work in white. As always, I over drew my lines, but I think it came out well. The "diner menus" just made me laugh, so I copied it here. I did another soundscape - and feel that it is an idea that has mileage - you probably can't read anything on this one - the funniest being a comment of a small boy on some of the installations - "where is the art mummy?"

From the Narrative arts club session

Stories were told and those who sketched responded to the tales and the general atmosphere of the setting

Sunday 22 Nov Session at Imma

Chris,Susanne,Jessica and James showed up, nasty weather probably accounted for a lot of people wisely staying home. Anyway it was still a fun session. Some woked on drawings based on the actual art work. I did my usual people in a cafe setting so here it is.

Irish Museum of Modern Art - Kilmainham 1pm

Apologies for the delay - I'm away in Cork for the weekend and couldn't get access before now!!

This week the Sketchers Group will meet at 1pm outside the front door of the IMMA - Irish Museum of Modern Art, Royal Hospital, KilmainhamRoyal Hospital, Kilmainham. They are open from 12am to 5.30pm so plenty time to sketch!

Link for info!http://www.imma.ie/en/index.htm

Happy sketching!!
Tracy

Ideas for Sunday?!

Thursday night already!! I am off to Cork this weekend, it's the Lovely Jumper Festival that's taking me away this time around.. has to be done :D

Stephen is also away this weekend, so I'm opening the floor to ideas for where ye would like to go this week.

Please post as comments and I will try and send out a mail tomorrow before I head off to confirm everything.

Tracy

National Museum

Sorry I didn't make national History museum today - landed at the rds Art fair(some great paintings there too) and realised i hadn't a key to lock my bike. Anyway as the kind rds folks minded my bike in a back room i decided to give kildare street a miss so i wouldn't have to worry about bike security, did anyone else show up at museum?

Re:Tickets for Arts Fair RDS

Mary managed to wangle us a few tickets, seven in all and they are waiting for us at the reception in RDS opps AIB HQ I believe.

Mary organised it so they are being kept under the name of our group and under my name for those who know me JM. I will be going to RDS for one pm myself and then heading to National Museum later at 2pm, when it opens, to see if anyone there who wants to go or will stay and sketch if not.

OK thats the info see ye at either place regards.J

Sunday 15th - Change of Location: 2pm @ National Museum of Ireland

Ardagh Chalice

OK!! So, seeing as the RDS is a non starter due to the promotion ending, those of you who didn't get tickets and want to sketch will now visit the National Museum of Ireland on Kildare Street.

The Museum doesn't open until 2pm, so it's a later start than usual, but well worth it. It's been some time since the Sketchers visited and seeing as it is off-peak now it shouldn't be too busy.. fingers crossed.

Info on the various collections here!

Hope ye enjoy it!

Apologies to anyone who ends up in the RDS looking for a bunch of sketchers!!
Tracy