Scetise 46- Slievenamon- the artic Sceitse

Ascending Slievenamon

The sketchers at mountains top

Walking off Slievenamon

Kilcash castle nearby

For our 46 sceitse, we went walking up Slievenamon in south Tipperary. Was a great day for it, a snow covered mountain! No greater mountain walking experience, feels like another world. Was a lovely day besides, even though the forecast was terrible. 

Sceitse 45- Limerick city

King Johsn castle

Sketching ontop the castle

St Marys cathedral and its lovely ornate medievaldoor

Hunt Museums collections, our last stop in the day

We spent the day wondering around Limerick city a week or so ago, Was a great day out, and we were even greeted by some local Limerick artists. Limerick is a city which has much to offer, we will have to go back at some stage!

Sceitse 44- sketch along the Lee

First stop of the day, the impressive Kilcrea Abbey

Kilcrea Tower House castle in the next field

An old ruined house next door to them

Next stop, the scenically placed Carrigadrohid castle, perched between 2 bridges

Finishing up with a stroll along Mullinhassig Woods stream

Ending at the lovely Mullinhassig Waterfall

The Sceitse that just got better and better, first part we were rained out of it but we braved through it to be rewarded with one of the most scenicly placed castles Carrigadrohid and finishing up with a dusk forest walk with streams and waterfalls

Sceitse 43- Lismore & Around

Lismore town centre

Inside one of Lismore cathedral, with some medieval bits of it still evident

Lismore castle gardends

Lismore castle from its gardens

One of the two castle gates hidden within Ballysaggartmore forest

Ballysaggartmore forest gate number 2

Heading out in lashing rain we teamed up Lismore to have a wander around the town, its castle and surrounds, and were rewarded for our efforts by the skies clearing, and as always ,an enjoyable day of fun, laughs and sketching

Sceitse 42- Thurlesand Around

Holycross Abbey our first stop of the day

The impressive main window in Holycross abbey

Sketching at Ballynahow castle

Sketching on the roofs of castles, only in Sceitse

One of the two tower houses in Thurles we stopped to have a sketch

The amazing Kilcooley Abbey our last stop of the day

The sketch crowd that came for sketch exploring on the day

Sceitse 42 saw us wonder up and around Thurles to see abbeys and tower houses galore, checking out sexy windows while having a laugh. More photos here:

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Sceitse 40- Coumshingaun & the mountains of the lakes

The walk up to the glacial lake or coum/cirque/corrie

Wondering on mountain paths

Mountains are always full of great sights

The glacial loch or coum which gives Coumshinguan its name

Sketchers in the mist

The path less travelled on the way home

The Sketchers for the day

For our 41st Sceitse we headed to Coumshinguan, a glacial lake surrounded by jagged mountains in the Comeragh mountains with commanding views of the rolling hills and flats of Western Waterford

More photos on our facebook group:

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Sceitse 40- Sketch Snorkeling.

Our secret little cove near Helvic Head pier, even had a little island we could swim out to

The sketch snorkelers with our waterproof paper & back boards, a normal wood graphite pencil is all u need ontop

The island we swam out too and climbed, you can see it there in the middle, was quite the journey out to it!

The fun results from sketch snorkeling

Chilling out on the beach after sketch snorkeling

Sand sketching on the beach by Octavia

One of the Piers at An Rinn

The small hardy group of sketch adventurers we had for the day

For our 40th Sceitse we headed to Helvic head to combine sketching and snorkeling and see how well they went together. It worked! Albeit after much rolling around in the water, swallowing water and much laughing. Was definitely one of the more fun activities we have ever done, in another pretty part of Ireland marked off the Sceitse to do lists

Sceitse 39- Sketch Island 2 & The Village of Sceitse

The Island of Sceitse

The cosy houses we stayed in that made up the hostel

Our Hostel from the outside

Along mountain paths

At the end of Blascad, a head covered in luminous flowers

The island was teeming with wildlife

One morning there was an army of seals sunbathing on the beach

One of the many light shows we saw at the island

A sketch island tradition: Each night we had glorious sunsets we perched out on the northern part of the island and watched while an army of seals watched us from the ocean, sometimes coming really close to us

An Island life, our little Sketch Village

We are just back from the biggest Sceitse of the year, a sketch tradition at this stage, where we spend a few days out on a deserted island in Ireland. This time it was Blascad Mór/the Great Blasket. Blascad was definitely a huge surprise, HUGE being the word, so much to explore and was teeming with wildlife. Absolutely beautiful and what a great crowd of people to enjoy it with, thanks to everyone for the laughs ontop of laughs and conversations over the few days, definitely one of the greatest Sceitse's we have had for sure, looking forward to next years one!

The above is a brief selection of the many photos taken by our talented members; more photos, videos, artwork and laughs had over on the Sceitse facebook page:

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