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Hello lovely listeners! In this episode I tell you about my upcoming course, and also share an update about my Sketchpocket and how it’s coming along. Enjoy!

This is just a once-off episode to bring you up to date with my brand new sketching bag that’s just going into production now. I would love to do more podcasts but all my creative energy odd going into YouTube and my wonderful students! I hope you enjoy this one.

This week I take you with me to the 1980s and a happy, crazy, heady year in NCAD. At that tender age, without guidance things can change dramatically for the smallest of reasons. Also: good news! I can’t wait to share a happy project I have coming up with you…

I hate the term “being a Karen” because it’s sexist and racist but this week I couldn’t have fitted the cliché better, complaining in a restaurant. Reuben turns seven and has a great day, I turn a year older too and likewise have a super day, and I give some tips when it comes to sketching on a beach - the life drawing class that everyone can attend!

This episode comes to you from the East Coast, where I’ve been hanging out with my father. It’s been emotional and I am grateful to you for sharing this personal journey with me - a great many of us have experienced the feeling of wearing the shoe on the other foot, caring for an elderly parent, or other relative. Many shenanigans and misunderstandings ensue! I do some fast seagull sketching, and later there’s an announcement of a master class workshop in Dublin in the autumn, and you can come to one or both - Victorian Dublin anyone?

This week’s episode contains scenes of attempted robbery, narrowly avoided infanticide, a dream (nightmare?) of a business idea and some very dodgy party-killing singing!

In this week’s episode I complain about my leaky dog (again), and see what I’m sure was a sea monster or maybe a seal or could’ve been a seagull. I share how annoying I can be when I want to. Also: if it’s terminally wrong, just turn the page!

My Thursday sketch session was no fun! Serves me right for eavesdropping, but I was two feet away. Turns out it’s a downer to listen to someone else’s ailments - note to self - but on Friday I recovered with a more fun experience sketching a pretty village. And Reuben is still cocking his leg in the house. 😡

In this week’s episode, I compare the challenges of being an entrepreneur to those of a pioneer in the Canadian outback…where you have only yourself and your cunning to rely upon! It makes me wonder how our darling domestic animals would fare on their own in the wild…not well is the answer, I suspect!

Between my lovely listeners, my sketching kit and all the unbelievable beauty, I feel very lucky to be here. This week I talk about the path that led me here, and becoming a member of the gym - with my son Paddy, who also happens to be my best sketching companion!

Just a few minutes to greet you on this Christmas morning. A small break follows but I’ll be back to you in the New Year. Have a good week!

It’s been unbelievably cold this week in Ireland and I’ve managed to get out to capture the beauty of the diamond- shining landscape in watercolour, albeit from my car. I also - as is my wont - mull over the vagaries of luck, of artistic success and fulfillment, and how to ride the ups and downs of it all.

I went to France for four days to attend the famous travel sketchbooking festival that is Rendezvous du Carnet de Voyage. I wanted to broadcast from my hotel room each night but it was way too intense for that! So this is a day or two after the event: I hope you enjoy it. I hope to record occasional podcasts again in the future when I have a day to do so!

In this week’s episode I travel the length and breadth of the aisles of German discount retailers to find a glass suitable to sketch a hot mulled wine for you! No success alas but one was had in a hotel nonetheless, the sketching of which I explain to you in detail. Also, new segment: Grievances. I suspect it will (not) cheer everyone up!

A bit of a mish-mash today, with some pretty rambling thoughts about France, some tips for painting Christmas cards and some superhero stories about (me) putting the world to right!

I spend a further week in the Auvergne but things go poire-shaped halfway through as I catch a terrible virus. Still, the show must go on and I get the job done! At least the locals are lovely…

This week I share the first leg of my trip to Clermont-Ferrand, in the heart of the Auvergne in France where I attended the 22nd Rendezvous du Carnet de Voyage, or the Meeting of the Travel Sketchbooks (sounds so much nicer in French!) After a slightly sticky start, I’ve had such an inspiring time, and I simply can’t wait to start putting the new tips I’ve picked up to use. I just love France…

In this week’s episode I have my VERY FIRST GUEST - drum roll - my sketching companion himself, my son Paddy. We chat sketching and the nature of creativity, and his upcoming driving test! I explain how to capture frosty and sparkly surfaces in watercolour and share my excitement about the Rendezvous Carnet de Voyage in Clermont-Ferrand next week.

A short episode this week - I think I need to catch my breath! But short can be sweet and this week it’s all about capturing those in-the-way folk who come into your frame of view JUST as you’re drawing something…here’s a way around that!

This week I explain how to capture light in glass, I evangelise once more about fully experiencing the seasons through sketching - and I tell you about my idea for an upcoming podcast subject!

This week is all about ink: how to use it as a scribbly sketcher and how to use it when you’re coming up with cartoons. I try as best I can to explain how I come up with, and draw, the cartoons I’ve been doing for Inktober, but only you can tell me if I’ve got anywhere. Of everything I do, cartoons are a window into my brain, and I don’t have eyes on the back of my head so I can barely see in myself! I hope you enjoy this week, I loved recording it. Don’t forget to share your thoughts with me - send me an email!

This week I share lots of tips, including my choice of ten colours if for some reason you weren’t allowed any more! Meanwhile, I sketch some lovely autumn leaves. Also: you could do worse than throw your hand into the ring and join Inktober with the two weeks left of this month. Thank you Janelle Shane for your AI-generated list of prompts…it’s so much fun!

This week I share some really top tips on sketching in a café - including capturing those hard-working waitresses - and how to capture the life and magic of an on-location sketch in a final piece, especially for a commission. It’s also the one where I tell you I’m packing in my fledging college-going life due to a small matter of thoroughly underestimating my time. A bit naïve but sometimes you only know when you try…

This is it folks - for now, anyway. Editing YouTube videos takes FOREVER so that’s where my creativity is going at the moment - why not join me over there, and subscribe to my channel? I give you at least two videos a week to keep you from going sketch-hungry so I think you’ll like it.

This week, sketching fish in Galway City dredges up memories of a misspent youth; we nearly lose our little dog Reuben; and the students make stunning sketches of the bounty of autumn…oh and I wax lyrical about young men in gyms!

This week, I talk about sketching with my son Paddy, my newest sketching buddy. I share his tale of disappointment leading to violence after missing out on Guinness and oysters - who could blame him?

I’ve had a crazy week of sketching, in which a day didn’t go by without my pens and watercolours coming out for a sketch. Some of it was for work, some for fun, but all of it was a pleasure…especially the sketches when I was joined by my lovely son Paddy. I also describe how I sketch a non-supermarket apple, fresh from my orchard.

In today’s episode I tell you how I made some ink and feather quills for drawing, and took them to the 10th USk Symposium in Amsterdam. And if you don’t have the wherewithal to make ink from oak apples, I share my favourite commercial ink brands and colours with you.

This week, I return to the familiar theme of bringing stamina to the long road that is an artist’s life. It’s my turn to show stamina as I’ve joined a gym and engaged a personal trainer. Meanwhile I receive some very good news, as I discover the presence of barn owls in Tyrone House a few fields from my house in Galway. This means I may yet be rid of the rodents in my studio roof!

I meet lots of sketchers: some are brimming with confidence, others are terrified, and there’s often very little relationship between the level they’re at and their level of confidence. In this episode I suggest ways to beat that fear - to give yourself a good talking-to - and while you’re doing that, to sketch your coffee cup. Also: kids’ art class coming up on Saturday afternoons Irish time, with a theme of Irish Wildlife. Keep an eye on the website roisincure.com.

Concentrating on watercolour-first in this week’s episode: Galway City Distillery with its shiny copper stills and vats is an urban sketcher’s paradise. I demonstrated capturing reflections in their working gin lab, and again at the water’s edge, sketching the stunning traditional Irish west coast boat, the Galway Hooker. They were in town for the annual race across Galway Bay. Proud of my city this weekend.

I’ve become an illustrator for the Barn Owl Project and in this episode I share a few things about these lovely creatures that you probably knew already. I record the entire episode during a thunderstorm, and I hope my terror doesn’t come through in the recording!

This week I share my thoughts on the wisdom of driving on an unfamiliar side of the road, beside someone with strong ideas on how best to do that. Later, I give you a solution to a ruined sketchbook page. And the poem at the end? Twentieth century, not nineteenth. Forgive my ignorance!

This week I’m coming to you from a little garden in a resort on the fabulous island of Menorca (or Minorca, as you prefer) where I’m sharing tips for sketching your family when you’re all together somewhere beautiful, and where no one is watching the clock.

This week I make my (dog’s) shame public, as I describe his unpleasant behaviour within the sanctified walls of my home - and offer a solution. As well as that I describe a method for drawing from old photographs and a few recommendations for some great kit. I’m taking a break over Easter so I’ll see you in two weeks! Happy Easter everyone!

In this week’s episode I out myself as a petty, jealous woman, and vain with it. But you can’t take yourself too seriously in this game or you wouldn’t last the distance: it helps to see the funny side of your vanity. Later, I get into the nitty-gritty of making food look delicious in a sketch.

Thirty episodes is quite the milestone and I’m thrilled to celebrate it with this extra-long story of me and my mum Cinnie spending a few days sketching together in the beautiful Burren. It was magical! I finish off with an account of a trip to a shooting range in County Kerry, where five total novices try their hand at target practice. One of us turns out to be a hustler!

In today’s episode I share more of my favourite sketch tips. My mother Cynthia (Cinnie) is coming to stay with me this week and we’re going sketching together, so I figured I’d share our common artistic heritage with you all…Episode illustration is my older brother (the one who knows all the family history) cooking a clam curry with my youngest, Liv.

This week’s episode is jam-packed with tips, harvested from my new Twitter account where I’ve been sharing them over the last two or three months. Now I broadcast them to you, the People!

I was very privileged to be initiated into the secret world of barn owls, after meeting an owl man called John. I’ve snuck in a bit about French people too - and a few tips on sketching glasses of beer!

Dans cet épisode je vous raconte des histoires d’un festival superbe- Clermont Dessine, un rendezvous d’ateliers ou on pouvait apprendre des clés pour mieux croquer!

I was hugely honoured to be invited to teach at Clermont Dessine this June. Here’s a little bit of deepest France for you. Francophiles please form an orderly queue 😆

In this episode I take you with me on a little boat trip off the coast of Mauritius at the height of the tropical summer, and introduce you to some of the lovely people I meet along the way. I think I read too fast, for which I apologise.

In this week’s episode I inspire a Ukrainian refugee with my book Dublin in Sketches and Stories but end up coming on too strong and probably lose her. Never mind, sketching my way to Dublin was a lovely way to spend a June morning.

In this week’s episode, I use the very convenient subject of statues to explain a way to capture light, whether strong sunlight or more diffuse. Less is very much more when it comes to trapping sunshine on paper!

In this week’s episode: being rejected by ALL and SUNDRY and coming up smiling; the joy of supergranulating paints (again) and when the sketch therapy session just doesn’t cut the mustard… and why!

Decades of rejections didn’t manage to put me off trying to make a living through art. I got there in the end, thanks to the support of like-minded souls who discovered me through social media

This is a very quick promo piece for my sketching course that starts on Monday 23rd May. All are welcome regardless if experience - it’s for absolute beginners! In this episode I outline what you’ll need for class.

In this episode, I take you to some of the places I’ve had the pleasure of sketching over a coffee: just as lovely sketching with friends and family or on your own - either way cool stuff happens.

In this week’s episode I escape the confines of my hospital bed and my busybody neighbour, and make my getaway to the diving tower in Blackrock at the far end of Galway City.