Coloured with 3 yr olds crappy markers...

Liam O'Connor

A friend of mine sent me a YouTube clip of this talented fiddler. The likeness could be a lot better but my new mantra is 'Just Draw and Don't Think Too Much'. Otherwise I won't draw at all :-)

Knowth, Boyne Valley, Co. Meath

Took these snaps while visiting Neolithic Passage Tomb, Knowth, Co. Meath on PhotoPeach

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Tim: what a great head to paint.

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This is a still life I started a number of weeks ago. The shadows on the table need to be put in and maybe some texture there too. I'm not happy with the green apple and the orange I feel they lack body. The books and the cloth turned out ok. Ill leave it for a while and come back to it in a few months with fresh eyes.

Sketches

The Rock of Cashel, seat of the high kings of Munster.

This is where we had lunch today...well near it, not in it obviously. Didn't visit it today but Ill go back and take proper pictures another day.

The Rock of Cashel was the traditional seat of the kings of Munster for several hundred years prior to the Norman invasion. Few remnants of the early structures survive; the majority of buildings on the current site date from the 12th and 13th centuries. Cashel is reputed to be the site of the conversion of the King of Munster by St. Patrick in the 5th century. The picturesque complex has a character of its own and is one of the most remarkable collections of Celtic art and medieval architecture to be found anywhere in Europe.
According to local mythology, the Rock of Cashel originated in the Devil's Bit, a mountain 30 km north of Cashel when St. Patrick banished Satan from a cave, resulting in the Rock's landing in Cashel.
 (source: Wikipedia)