In 2019 my publisher produced an exclusive \u2018Collector\u2019s Edition\u2019 calendar for Guinness Storehouse called \u20182019 The Heart of Ireland\u2019. I selected my favourite paintings of Ireland for this calendar, the heart of which was the painting I did of the Guinness Storehouse itself. This was a challenging painting to get right with the dual lines of perspective of the building itself and the corrugated iron bridge. I sketched out the drawing in pencil first and then started to paint in layers of watercolour to build up the intensity of colour. I get huge enjoyment out of painting old redbrick buildings which has become something of a signature. I paint each brick first in the various colours that I see, and when dry I carefully put a wash of water over the bricks to blend them together. I am always drawn to scarlet red which you will often see in my paintings and I had to paint the horse and vintage carriage, with its splash of red, patiently waiting for their next passengers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In 2019 my publisher produced an exclusive \u2018Collector\u2019s Edition\u2019 calendar for Guinness Storehouse called \u20182019 The Heart of Ireland\u2019. I selected my favourite paintings of Ireland for this calendar, the heart of which was the painting I did of the Guinness Storehouse itself. This was a challenging painting to get right with the dual lines […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":113,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roisinoshea.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roisinoshea.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roisinoshea.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roisinoshea.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roisinoshea.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roisinoshea.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roisinoshea.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roisinoshea.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roisinoshea.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roisinoshea.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}