Santas Gotto

An old Friend from a local business got in touch recently to ask if I could do something with the students in the second level school for a santa's grotto. So we got to work striping back stage flats which were covered in hard board and stretched nylon until we has the bare frames. 

     

 Once we had the frames exposed we started to cover them in large pieces of clean cardboard.

Painted the base coat on cut and framed both a window and a fire place and finished it off with chalk pastel. 

A bit of lighting always helps to set the christmas tone 

And two of the biggest elfs ive ever seen in my life. 

Dublin for Easter

Sea food tagliatelle in the Oar restaurant in Howth with my aunt Pauline, cousin Kevin and mam was delicious and really enjoyable. We were there to celebrate Kevin's 51st Birthday on a sunny Dublin day while i was home for a few days over the Easter break catching up with family Friends and  

Then on Dublin bus I found it a lot more difficult sketching people who are in such close proximity in comparison to the space that you have on the Sbahn or regional Bahn in Berlin. Great week all told