Three New Still-Life Paintings

I haven't posted any still-life paintings for a while.
Here are a few that  Germaine will be putting in her Christmas exhibition at Swan Art.

I was inspired to do the last one by the wonderful milk jug paintings of my friend Conor Walton.

A Portrait Drawing in Charcoal

This shows the progress I made on my demo at my portrait drawing class last night.

The model is someone I have been drawing for many years and she is one of my favourite people to draw or paint.

You can contact Germaine on 087 2142394 for more information about the classes.

My Art Classes in Dublin

In a few weeks I will be starting teaching some classes for my friend Germaine at Swan Art in Dublin.

I will be teaching a two hour class on Tuesday evenings and participants sign up for six weeks at a time.

We get artists with a wide range of abilities so I like to keep the programme of classes fairly flexible in order to respond to their needs and interests, but my six week programme generally starts with still life drawing and painting in oils, at some stage we will be touching on landscape and portraiture work and I like to end on the sixth week drawing the live nude model.

We always have a nice atmosphere at the classes I have done at Swan Art and you can see some of the great results my students have achieved in these photos.

I think the first six weeks are fairly heavily booked already but you can contact Germaine on 087 2142394 for more information on availability.