If it’s your first time out and you can’t spot anyone at 2pm, just choose something to sketch and get stuck in. Keep your eyes open for anyone carrying a sketchbook and say hello. It's a friendly crowd who you’ll get to know over a drink from 4pm. Don't worry if you're late, most of us usually are! You need to bring your own paper and pens/pencils etc.
From 4pm, we'll gather for a drink and to enjoy each other’s sketches at McSorley's. A bunch of sketchers will magically appear.
If you would like your sketch to be added to the website, email it to dublinsketchers @ gmail .com or post it to the Dublin Sketchers Social WhatsApp group if you are on that. Please edit your image so that it is low res and properly oriented for posting to the website. If you are posting your sketch on Instagram please #dublinsketchers #urbansketchers
Hope to see you there!
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If you are a regular sketcher and you are planning to enter your sketches for the exhibition at the Ranelagh Arts Centre next Spring, make sure to sketch on loose leaf paper. And remember that the idea is that we sketch on location, from direct observation.
A few areas of interest (see map):
Beechwood Luas Stop: there's also a café at the Luas. It gets busy on a Sunday, though.
Nobós: a quirky café.
Morton's Supermarket on Dunville Avenue: not sure when it first opened, but it was already in this location in the 1950's.
Anna villa: an attractive street of mixed housing with some dating back to the 18th century
Cullenswood House on Oakley Road: the house was bought by Patrick Pearse to establish his first Irish language school, St Enda's, in 1908.
Oakley Road: was home to some of the signatories of the 1916 Proclamation of Independence, including Patrick Pearse, Willie Pearse and Thomas MacDonagh. They were executed after the Easter Rising of 1916. Other residents of Oakley Road: Áine Ceannt (Irish revolutionary activist), Samuel Barry Carse (Thom's Directory), Mary Holland (journalist)
Maureen O'Hara, the famous Hollywood actress, was born at 32 Beechwood Avenue Upper. But maybe you're all too young to remember her?
Church of the Holy Name: notice its dramatic tower and belfry.
Birchall's pub - in case of rain
Drinks from 4pm at McSorley's.
