Dublin Sketchers Group

Sketches from Sunday at the Royal Hospital Kilmainham

Mary S.

Neasa

Caroline

Paddy

Mary O'C.

Sunday 7 April - Hugh Lane Gallery

On Sunday 7th of April, Dublin Sketchers will sketch at the Hugh Lane Gallery (Parnell Square) from 2PM.

Meet around 4pm at the Old Music Shop on North Frederick Street.

If the weather brightens, there is a lot to sketch outdoors in the area, the Garden of Rembembrance, Hardwicke Street, Blessington Street, and of course Eccles Street (where Leopold Bloom's house was, at number 7, which sadly no longer exists).

For those of you participating in the Olives, Oysters and Oranges Bloomsday 2019 project, this is an area rich in inspiration, where Leopold Bloom starts his day, in the Calypso chapter. And if you're thinking food, maybe start the day with breakfast in bed, or grilled kidneys!

Mr Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls. He liked thick giblet soup, nutty gizzards, a stuffed roast heart, liverslices fried with crustcrumbs, fried hencods' roes. Most of all he liked grilled mutton kidneys which gave to his palate a fine tang of faintly scented urine.

Also, the Olivier Cornet Gallery is around the corner if you want to drop in. It will be the last day of their wonderful exhibition slip.flux.flock!

If it’s your first time out and you can’t spot anyone at 2PM just chose 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.

Bloomsday 2019 – Olives, Oysters and Oranges, Dublin Sketchers’ Ulysses sketchbook project 2019

Between April and June, Dublin Sketchers will sketch in some of the locations that appear in James Joyce’s Ulysses, which takes place on one day in Dublin in 1904. That day is celebrated every year as Bloomsday, 16^th June.

The Olives, Oysters and Oranges sketchbook project will take inspiration from Ulysses, and in particular the references to food in Ulysses. Our work will parallel the exhibition of the same name at the Olivier Cornet Gallery. The title for this project is taken from Flicka Small’s current research into the semiotics of food in Ulysses.

The sketchbooks will be a record of time and place, now and then. They will reveal Ulysses, one drawing at a time.

How do I integrate food into my sketching? How do I link the locations we sketch at and the text from Ulysses? These are a few questions you may have. The answer, of course is entirely up to you. You may be inspired by the text itself of course. The whole universe as we know it exists in Ulysses. You can search through Ulysses online. Or you may be inspired by the locations themselves. Or let your imagination run wild. Whatever your approach, have fun. Just like Joyce had fun when writing Ulysses.

If you want to join the Olives, Oysters and Oranges sketchbook project, the dates for the sketch crawls are below. Extra dates will be added when other locations can be sorted out.

The sketchbooks will be exhibited upstairs at the Olivier Cornet Gallery on 15^th and 16^th of June, during the Bloomsday Festival. If you don’t want to exhibit your sketches, that is totally fine. Just come out with Dublin Sketchers as usual.

Olives, Oysters and Oranges Sketchbook Project Dates

Sunday 28th April noon – 4pm: Sketch crawl from O'Connell Street down Grafton Street, past Davy Byrne’s pub and onto the National Library. This route follows the course of the hungry Lestrygonians chapter of Ulysses and ends up in the National Library for a heated debate about Shakespeare in the Scylla and Charybdis episode

Sunday 5^th May 2pm – 4pm: location to be advised.

Full details of each sketch crawl will be available on www.dublinsketchers.com in the week leading up to the event.

Further resources available for inspiration:

This short video gives some low down on the chapter. You can also take inspiration from the Scylla and Charybdis chapter that takes place in the National Library. Here's a short video about it. Both are presented by John Singleton.

Full searchable text of Ulysses

Another good resource is the Joyce Project

Here's an 18 minute intro to the whole book.

And of course don't forget the classic movie:

Sunday 31st March 2019 Royal Hospital Kilmainham

On Sunday 31^st March Dublin Sketchers will sketch at the Royal Hospital Kilmainham (RHK) from 2PM.

Meet for drinks at the Hilton Hotel, Kilmainham (opposite Kilmainham Jail and at the West gate exit from the RHK).

Sketches from Harold's Cross

It was a cold day, but that didn't stop us from exploring and sketching all aspects of Harold's Cross. And chatting to the locals of course! Our sketchbooks will be displayed as part of the Harold's Cross Festival in mid-May. If you haven't been to Harold's Cross to sketch yet, it's not too late to join in! We'll be back in April for another sketch outing. Hopefully it'll be a tad warmer!

There's lots to sketch in Harold's Cross. Check out this map of points of interest if you haven't seen it already:

Here are the sketches:

Deniz

Vourneen

Brian

Neasa

Pat

Xavier

Vourneen

Betty

Kate

Sue

Sheila

Isoilde

Caroline

Ciarán

Marie-Hélène

Sunday 24th March 2019 Harold's Cross

On Sunday 24th March 2019 Dublin Sketchers will sketch in the Harold's Cross area from 2PM.
Meet for drinks at McGowan's of Harold's Cross beside Harold's Cross park (North end).

As mentioned in a previous communication, Dublin Sketchers have been invited to participate in the Harold's Cross Festival this year, 13th to the 19th May, where we will publicly display our work.

There is much to sketch in the Harold's Cross area including
1. The Park
2. Mount Jerome Cemetery
3. Mount Argus church, grotto, river and park
4. Harold's Cross Road, shops/business's etc
5. Leinster Road area, houses and small parks

Sketches from 17th of March, St Patrick's Day

The rain stayed off, and we sketched the crowds and the attractions around the Saint Patrick's Day Festival. A few of us sketched in the National Gallery also.