Dublin Sketchers get together every Sunday afternoon in Dublin to sketch. We go to a different place each week. Check here before hand to see where we are off to. Come along if you fancy it! We start sketching from 2pm and meet at 4pm for a drink and chat. We are part of the global Urban Sketchers community.
Sweny's
Great location; thank you James!!
Venue:Sweeney's Chemist Sunday 24th: 1pm - 3pm
OK guys on Sunday Sweny's Chemist has been reopened(it's been closed for quite a while) by Joycean scholars connected with 15 Usher's Quay house and they've invited us to come there this Sunday at 1pm. It's a 150 year old apothecary that Joyce mentions in Ulysses and has loads of drawers filled with all sorts of pharmaceutical compounds including arsenic and a very lovely old interior generally. They kindly request we don't take photos. There's more to the tale too including potentially exhibiting work we do from there ...
It's just off Merrion Square, in between Merrion Sq West (National Gallery and the Mont Clare Hotel on Fenian St) Wesland Row (Pierce St.Dart Station) and Leinster Road(Trinity College Douglas hyde side) Sweny's chemist's shop in Lincoln Place, Dublin 2
It's just off Merrion Square, in between Merrion Sq West (National Gallery and the Mont Clare Hotel on Fenian St) Wesland Row (Pierce St.Dart Station) and Leinster Road(Trinity College Douglas hyde side) Sweny's chemist's shop in Lincoln Place, Dublin 2
"(He points to the south, then to the east. A cake of new clean lemon
soap arises, diffusing light and perfume.)
THE SOAP
We're a capital couple are Bloom and I;
He brightens the earth, I polish the sky.
(The freckled face of Sweny, the druggist, appeals in the disc of the
soapsun.)
SWENY Three and a penny, please.
BLOOM Yes. For my wife, Mrs Marion. Special recipe."
BLOOM Yes. For my wife, Mrs Marion. Special recipe."
For anyone, myself included, who prefers to sit while sketching it might be useful to bring along a small stool to sit on in the chemists as there are only about two or three stools in the place. It's a small place so space will be kinda limited inside so again (myself especially included) maybe keep your gear to a minimun so we're not totally squashed with big bags etc.
See you there,
A weekend away in March/April
anyone interested.?
I was thinking of Westport, Co. Mayo which has a nice youth hostel, good pubs and scenery.
If your interested post up here!
I was thinking of Westport, Co. Mayo which has a nice youth hostel, good pubs and scenery.
If your interested post up here!
Sunday 24th January
So, ehm, yeah, give it some thought and then post the hell out of it :) Remember there are no restrictions so if you have something unusual in mind let us know.
The general guidelines are:
1. Somewhere free.
2. Eh, not too far for Stephen to walk to as he's invariably hung over.
Talk to you soon.
Stephen
Sketching Sunday 17th - National Art Gallery
This Sunday we will meet at the entrance to the National Gallery, Merrion Square.
The Turner Watercolour Exhib. is on for the month of January in the Print Room at the National Gallery, Merrion Square.
Also there is a free lecture on Joshua Reynolds, portrait painter, at 3pm. Stephen, it almost in the City Centre.
I must head home again this weekend so happy sketching and I hope to catch up with you the week after :)
Tracy
Sketching Sunday 17th - Ideas?
Any ideas for where to sketch this Sunday?
Here one possibility just to start the ball rolling.. however I will be in Cork this weekend so I won't be out :(
Linky: Picturing New York: Photographs from The Museum of Modern Art (Kilmainham)
Picturing New York comprises 145 masterworks from the photographic collection of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, covering the period from the 1880s to the present day.
Here one possibility just to start the ball rolling.. however I will be in Cork this weekend so I won't be out :(
Linky: Picturing New York: Photographs from The Museum of Modern Art (Kilmainham)
Picturing New York comprises 145 masterworks from the photographic collection of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, covering the period from the 1880s to the present day.
Stephen
Storysketch 2
Storysketch session
Thursday, 21 January Time: 19:30 - 22:30
Library Bar Extension (Central Hotel, Exchequer Street, Dublin 2, just off South Great George's Street)
association with the Narrative Arts Club
The Narrative Arts Club will provide an evening of "eye-contact theatre"
Sketching enthusiasts are invited to draw the storyteller/audience OR the story itself.
We're expecting a nice crowd so best to arrive early.
Suggested donation €2 - €6
Tinderbox Network
10th January- 1pm at Bleeding Horse pub
Meeting at 1 o'clock, if you're new have your sketchpad visible!
The Bleeding Horse
Located on Camden Street and established since 1649 the Bleeding Horse is one of Dublins most historic pubs, and has been frequented over the years by literary greats such as Joyce, La Fanu, Gogarty and Dunleavy.
meeting Sunday week (10th January)
Anyone any suggestions? i was thinking of somewhere indoors like the bleeding horse or somewhere?
Sarah
Sarah
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!!
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/
http://www.thisisnotashop.com/index.php/whats_on/detail/3rd_annual_christmas_art_fair/
Sunday 13th December
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
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
James
Sketchy Sunday 6th!
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
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