Tuesday 2 May 2023

Irish Church

 

a pen and ink drawing of a partially ruined church in County Kerry, Ireland

Many years ago, we went on holiday to Ireland and stayed in the south in County Kerry. One day we were driving along a quiet country lane and unexpectedly came across this semi-ruined church. It was intriguing because the back wall, where I imagine there was once a stained-glass window, was caved in and yet the graveyard looked recently used. To add to the intrigue, there was a good degree of rubble just inside the caved in window yet all the pews appeared to be present and intact. 

I first drew this church in pencil back in 2010. More recently I was looking through my photo's for a suitable subject to set as the Monthly Painting and Drawing Project in my forum, and this one jumped out at me as we hadn't had a building as a subject for a while. As usual, the members tackled this in a variety of media, but my choice was to try Pen & Ink this time. 

Other Pen & Ink drawings on my web site

8 comments:

  1. This is really nicely done with your variety of textures!! I loved roaming around Ireland and finding so many semi-ruined castles and churches. They all had such great atmosphere.

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    1. Ireland is lovely and I hope to get back there one day. Thank you Joan. ;-)

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  2. Ireland is awesome,

    Been there 3 times during the Art in The Open festival in Wexford.
    It was very pleasant the only pity was they had to stay in the county Wexford, .. but then again Ireland is almost as nice as England epsecially Wales.

    Said so many times in all kinds of fora's England should be called out a painters paradize which would mean they arn't allowed to change anything anymore and every painter of the world are free to roam around and paint.

    Guess it will never happen tho.

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    1. It's lovely that you think so highly of England Rene. I guess, as a local, I don't see it through the same eyes as you, but we do have some exquisite and historic locations. I love your idea of not allowing anything to change ... I'd vote for that.

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  3. Ow I love the drawing btw. exactly what Joan says, ... the variety of texture is smashing !!

    Are you aware of Trevor Chamberlains work?

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    1. Thank you very much Rene. No, I hadn't heard of Trevor Chamberlain but I've just looked him up and see he's primarily an oil artist. He's really good.

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    2. Oh my, ... you should try to get hold of the two books he publiced (by Ron Ranson) "Oils" and "Oil painting pure and simple" they are sooo well worth it.
      they are both "how to" books with lot's of steps and explaining by Ron Ranson. Trevor self is much to modest to tell much about his way of painting. I'd met him once in France during a trip with "The Wapping group of Artists" guess you know that group.

      I'm a big fan of Trevor, his way of painting a feeling is soo inspireing.

      He's a master in watercolours as well.

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    3. I can tell you're a big fan of Trevor's. I tried oils briefly once, many years ago, and couldn't really get on with it. Maybe because of a lack of instructions, but for whatever reason decided it wasn't for me. That's why I envy and appreciate artists like you who are so competent at it. I'll have a look for his watercolours though. Thank you.

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