Kinsale Part VI

This was in front of the pink house I posted yesterday.
It was quirky but cute.

On our last day in Kinsale I drove out to Old Head at the tip of the peninsula.

There were beautiful cliffs and a view of a golf course that had a lighthouse on it.

I parked at the top of the hill and walked down a ways to takes some photos.

Then I sat down and did this view of the cliffside.

This was the first day that it was warm enough to sit in the sun, 

so I took off my coat and sweater and was sitting just in my t-shirt.

I really liked the spot and shifted slightly to paint a second painting of the view of the cliffs and the golf course. I was almost finished when I turned to put something in my backpack and noticed that the sky was black behind me. Before I could finish packing up my supplies the wind picked up and it started pouring. There I was halfway down the hill and my car was at the top. I was soaked by the time I got up to the car. It was raining so hard by that point that I didn't drive until the rain let up a bit.

This was another view of the countryside outside of the town.

For our last night in Kinsale we went to Crackpots for dinner and a piano bar.

The piano player and singer did a lot of Dean Martin and Elvis music.

They were really entertaining.

Kinsale Part V

I loved this little house on the hill called the "Mansion House." I don't think the door was even 5 1/2 feet high. I'm sure I would have had to duck to get inside. But the colors were so great.

This house was right across the parking lot from ours in Kinsale. It looked so rosy, but tiny.

This is a view of an old shed that was near the fort that I posted yesterday.

The whole area had such nice views of the water.

Kinsale Part IV

Just outside the town was Charles Fort which protected the town through history. I liked the view of the water through the arch of the entrance. I nearly blew away painting this one. lol

This is another view looking out from the harbor. The land is so green.

This gem down by the harbor looked like it needed a little TLC, but I imagine

that it had a wonderful view of the area.

We went to Kitty O Se's a second night to hear traditional Irish music.

They started out with 3 musicians and over the course of the evening 3 more musicians 

came in and sat down to join them. Then another musician from the USA who had her clarinet in her hotel room joined in. It was really a fun night.

Kinsale Part III

We ventured from Kinsale one day to Barryscourt Castle in Carrigtwoohill, just east of Cork.

The castle was really lovely, but not open for tours. I liked the building next to it too...it reminded me of a building in Provence.

Another place that had great music was the Bar Cafe at the Blue Haven Hotel.

The first night we went there the band played mostly popular music, not traditional Irish, which was a change. There were 5 musicians, but I could only see 2 of them from our table.

Don't you just love a place that is this colorful?

Dalton's Bar also had traditional music one night, but we didn't get there.

Kinsale Part II

I don't know where my head is. I posted the story about the Milk Pail Cafe waiter and never posted the painting of the building. lol Sorry about that! Here it is.

Like the other areas we visited we had rain/showers when we were in Kinsale...and it was on the cold side. I went down to the end of the harbor to paint the landscape across the water. It was very windy which made it even colder and of course it showered before I got back. Between my coat hood and my umbrella I was able to keep dry.

The house we rented in Kinsale was called Church Cottage and was right near St. Multose Church and Cemetery. The house had a rooftop patio and this was the view looking toward town. You can see a bit of the church, some of the graves, and the town behind them. I guess it could have been a bit morbid overlooking the graveyard, but it was really interesting looking.

Kinsale had a lot of pubs with live music at night. Each night there was a choice of where we would go. I sketched this at Kitty O Se's. We didn't have a view of the musicians so I sketched the people at the next table. 

Kinsale Part I

Our next stop was Kinsale which is located in County Cork. It had a nice harbor area and very colorful buildings. I liked it a lot.

There was a square with these really different colored buildings. The orange one was Stone Mad which was a store that sold jewelry and jeweled items of all kinds.

Across from it was the Kinsale Bookstor. Don't you just love a purple building?

And across in the other direction was the Milk Pail Cafe.

The waiter there kept coming out while I was painting these last two buildings and told me I was there for so long he was bringing me some tea.

Kilmore Quay Part v

Here is another of Kilmore Quay's thatched cottages...can you tell I liked them?

This thatched cottage had an interesting shed outside.

I did a sketch of the wood stove in the house we rented. It was really a nice place!

It was a warm place to sketch when it got too cold outside.

This is the end of my sketches in and around Kilmore Quay.

Tomorrow I'll post some work from Kinsale.