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30-Day Drawing Challenge '14 - Day 9
Today was a weird one. The bookstore was pretty busy for a Monday, which is good, it makes the day go quicker. But, goodness me, the rude folks did seem to congregate in my section for the duration....
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The 250th Post
Can you believe it?250 Posts!Yeah, I think that is entirely worthy of large red letters.I've been looking back at all of the posts on this blog lately and I think it's safe to say I've come a long way...
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Somewhere, over the rainbow...
...there's apparently a land full of very pretty ladies walking around semi-naked all of the time. Or, at least, that's what one must assume based on yesterday's Dr. Sketchy's Galway'Wizard of Oz'...
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The Circle
It occurs to me that there exists a long list of things I have said I will do on this blog that, for one reason or another, I never got around to actually doing. There's a decent pile of paintings that...
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When Urban Sketching & 30-Day Drawing Challenges collide!
I know, I know. I've barely done any of the 30-Day Drawing Challenges so far. It's not for a lack of trying, nor desiring. It is, as seemingly usual, very busy times here and there are plenty of things...
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Brian Froud & Alan Lee
I can still vividly recall the feeling I had when I read Brian Froud and Alan Lee's book, Faeries, for the very first time, something like 20 years ago. That book, as I paged through it, filled me with...
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A Pitiful Display...
Well, the 2014 30-Day Drawing Challenge has come to an end. And I absolutely sucked at it this year. I had a feeling, initially, that I was going to struggle to get many daily challenges done, but I...
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The relevant worth of Podcasts
I've been self-medicating myself on a fairly heavy dose of Podcasts over the last month or so and I'm now totally hooked on them, real bad. They are fantastic to listen to while drawing and painting,...
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My artistic Bucket List
This post is going to be a two-parter of sorts. Each part is going to deal with vaguely the same subject- where I want to go with my artwork and how I intend on getting there. So let's get straight to...
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The road goes ever on
So, the last post dealt with the things I would like to do with my artwork, both on a personal level and commercially. This post is all about how I plan on getting there. It requires a few changes, as...
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The Other of One
Here's something I've been working on lately-There's a book that was written by a fellow resident of Galway, Ireland named Brian Burke called The Other of One. It's a fantasy novel in the vein of the...
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Lord of the Rings portraits
Have I mentioned before how much of a Tolkien fan I am? Yeah, I'm sure I have. I love Tolkien to bits and am currently reading Lord of the Rings for the umpteenth time. I'm one of those people that...
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A Starting Point
So I mentioned recently that I'm embarking on a change in media from black and white inked work to full colour paintings. I stated that I am going to be essentially beginning from scratch in this...
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My Etsy store
I've taken the giant, yet incredibly simple, leap of opening up my own Etsy store. You can find it right here. It is, of course, called RealmsofFaerie.The main reason I set up an Etsy store is so that...
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An English sojourn
Greetings to you, dear and gentle reader.I've just returned from a three day holiday in the UK, where many things were seen and even more things were done. Here's a sampling of what I got up to...1. I...
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World Art Drop Day
I know, I know... I was supposed to be writing about Podcasting in this post, but that is simply going to have to wait until the next post!Because today, I want to talk about a fun 24 hours I've just...
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Okay... Podcasting.I mentioned briefly a couple of posts ago that my old buddy, Gordon Mackay and I are in the planning stages of doing an art podcast together. Well, I can happily say that things are...
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Life Drawing
I'm absolutely loving the Life Drawing classes I take at the moment. I feel as though I've come a long way, artistically, in the three or four months that I've been doing it. Which is precisely why I...
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Galway Pub Scrawl turns 5!
Logo by the incomparable Mary Lillis.On a Monday evening back in January 2012, I walked into McSwiggan's Bar in Galway for what would be my first of many, many Galway Pub Scrawls. It seems a long time...
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Podcastiness & Sketchbookery
First off, I have great news! Gord and I recorded our inaugural podcast a last week and, amazingly, it wasn't a horrible mess of stutters, giggles and gibberish. It wasn't half bad actually.Now all I...
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