Sketch Therapist

By Roisin Cure

What's Sketch Therapist about?

This is Sketch Therapist, the podcast that improves your sketch life! Join me and my sketchbook as I capture my world in ink and watercolour. Who knows what’ll happen along the way?

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Sketch Therapist episodes:

04.08.2024
Episode 71: Creatures In The Kitchen!
Hello lovely listeners! In this episode I tell you about my upcoming course, and also share an update about my Sketchpocket and how it’s coming along. Enjoy!
01.28.2024
Episode 70: Introducing…the SketchPocket!
This is just a once-off episode to bring you up to date with my brand new sketching bag that’s just going into production now. I would love to do more podcasts but all my creative energy odd going into YouTube...
11.22.2023
Episode 69: The 23rd Rendezvous du Carnet de Voyage: A Trip To The Heart Of France
I went to France for four days to attend the famous travel sketchbooking festival that is Rendezvous du Carnet de Voyage. I wanted to broadcast from my hotel room each night but it was way too intense for that! So...
04.12.2023
Episode 68: Spring Has Sprung - and it’s time to take a break!
This is it folks - for now, anyway. Editing YouTube videos takes FOREVER so that’s where my creativity is going at the moment - why not join me over there, and subscribe to my channel? I give you at least...
04.02.2023
Episode 67: My Kit and Kaboodle - And Have I Found The Reuben Solution?
This week I make my (dog’s) shame public, as I describe his unpleasant behaviour within the sanctified walls of my home - and offer a solution. As well as that I describe a method for drawing from old photographs and...
03.26.2023
Episode 66: Stay Tacky, People!
In this week’s episode: being rejected by ALL and SUNDRY and coming up smiling; the joy of supergranulating paints (again) and when the sketch therapy session just doesn’t cut the mustard… and why!
03.19.2023
Episode 65: The Luck O’ The Irish
In this week’s episode, I invite you along with me as I sketch some of the lovely St. Patrick’s Day decorations bedecking the streets of Galway. I talk about stealing strangers’ likenesses (ie. sketching them) on the train, and how...
03.12.2023
Episode 64: Jeff And The Onions
This week I wear the ear off a very nice man from the US who is interested in the connection between landscape and the artists who are inspired by it. That was fun. I also took part in the 100...
03.06.2023
Episode 63: Paint First, Then Draw After
Listen, it’s that time of year again, March 6-10th, when the Draw 100 People challenge comes upon us once more. I’m going to do my best, which may not be great seeing as I live in the middle of nowhere!...
02.26.2023
Episode 62: I’m An Art Farmer
In this week’s episode, spring has sprung in Co. Galway and it’s good to be alive. I’ve been gallivanting along the country roads going about my job as an art farmer - harvesting beautiful scenery in my sketchbook to serve...
02.19.2023
Episode 61: Capricious Colour in Café Sketching
This week I take you with me to the 1980s and a happy, crazy, heady year in NCAD. At that tender age, without guidance things can change dramatically for the smallest of reasons. Also: good news! I can’t wait to...
02.12.2023
Episode 60: The Sketch Therapist Turns One - A Year Of Improved Sketch Life!
I hate the term “being a Karen” because it’s sexist and racist but this week I couldn’t have fitted the cliché better, complaining in a restaurant. Reuben turns seven and has a great day, I turn a year older too...
02.05.2023
Episode 59: Taking My Turn On The Sketch Therapist’s Couch
This episode comes to you from the East Coast, where I’ve been hanging out with my father. It’s been emotional and I am grateful to you for sharing this personal journey with me - a great many of us have...
01.29.2023
Episode 58: Sketchopolis - Where You (Won’t) Come To Sketch
This week’s episode contains scenes of attempted robbery, narrowly avoided infanticide, a dream (nightmare?) of a business idea and some very dodgy party-killing singing!
01.24.2023
Episode 57: A Tale Of Two Terriers…oh and Put That Out Please!
In this week’s episode I complain about my leaky dog (again), and see what I’m sure was a sea monster or maybe a seal or could’ve been a seagull. I share how annoying I can be when I want to....
01.16.2023
Episode 56: From My Perspective…Drawing Complex Lines through Observation
My Thursday sketch session was no fun! Serves me right for eavesdropping, but I was two feet away. Turns out it’s a downer to listen to someone else’s ailments - note to self - but on Friday I recovered with...
01.09.2023
Episode 55: Alone In The (Entrepreneurial) Wild
In this week’s episode, I compare the challenges of being an entrepreneur to those of a pioneer in the Canadian outback…where you have only yourself and your cunning to rely upon! It makes me wonder how our darling domestic animals...
01.01.2023
Episode 54: A Beautiful Year…
Between my lovely listeners, my sketching kit and all the unbelievable beauty, I feel very lucky to be here. This week I talk about the path that led me here, and becoming a member of the gym - with my...
12.25.2022
Episode 53: Yuletide Greetings!
Just a few minutes to greet you on this Christmas morning. A small break follows but I’ll be back to you in the New Year. Have a good week!
12.18.2022
Episode 52: Jack Frost Is An Artist - Sketching A Winter Wonderland in Watercolour
It’s been unbelievably cold this week in Ireland and I’ve managed to get out to capture the beauty of the diamond- shining landscape in watercolour, albeit from my car. I also - as is my wont - mull over the...
12.11.2022
Episode 51: The Sketch Therapist Is An Œnophile (That’s A Fancy Wino To You And Me)
In this week’s episode I travel the length and breadth of the aisles of German discount retailers to find a glass suitable to sketch a hot mulled wine for you! No success alas but one was had in a hotel...
12.04.2022
Episode 50: Not All Heroines Wear Capes - Taking Offence At Everything
A bit of a mish-mash today, with some pretty rambling thoughts about France, some tips for painting Christmas cards and some superhero stories about (me) putting the world to right!
11.27.2022
Episode 49: Zut Alors…
I spend a further week in the Auvergne but things go poire-shaped halfway through as I catch a terrible virus. Still, the show must go on and I get the job done! At least the locals are lovely…
11.20.2022
Episode 48: Planes, Trains & Automobiles - A Bon Voyage?
This week I share the first leg of my trip to Clermont-Ferrand, in the heart of the Auvergne in France where I attended the 22nd Rendezvous du Carnet de Voyage, or the Meeting of the Travel Sketchbooks (sounds so much...
11.13.2022
Episode 47: How Art Transcends Our Meat Vehicle: Meet My First Guest!
In this week’s episode I have my VERY FIRST GUEST - drum roll - my sketching companion himself, my son Paddy. We chat sketching and the nature of creativity, and his upcoming driving test! I explain how to capture frosty...
11.06.2022
Episode 46: Seeing Ghosts: Adding People to a Busy Scene
A short episode this week - I think I need to catch my breath! But short can be sweet and this week it’s all about capturing those in-the-way folk who come into your frame of view JUST as you’re drawing...
10.30.2022
Episode 45: Feel The Seasons And Sketch Them Anyway
This week I explain how to capture light in glass, I evangelise once more about fully experiencing the seasons through sketching - and I tell you about my idea for an upcoming podcast subject!
10.23.2022
Episode 44: Thinking Ink - PumpkINK, Pen & INK & INKtober!
This week is all about ink: how to use it as a scribbly sketcher and how to use it when you’re coming up with cartoons. I try as best I can to explain how I come up with, and draw,...
10.16.2022
Episode 43: Autumnal Leaves On A Sketch Tip Sunday
This week I share lots of tips, including my choice of ten colours if for some reason you weren’t allowed any more! Meanwhile, I sketch some lovely autumn leaves. Also: you could do worse than throw your hand into the...
10.09.2022
Episode 42: Sketching Coffee, Croissants and Comely Cailíní!
This week I share some really top tips on sketching in a café - including capturing those hard-working waitresses - and how to capture the life and magic of an on-location sketch in a final piece, especially for a commission....
10.02.2022
Episode 41: A Bounteous Sea, Bay Boletes and Boiling Barn Owls
This week, sketching fish in Galway City dredges up memories of a misspent youth; we nearly lose our little dog Reuben; and the students make stunning sketches of the bounty of autumn…oh and I wax lyrical about young men in...
09.25.2022
Episode 40: Sketching The City Of The Tribes…With My Tribe
This week, I talk about sketching with my son Paddy, my newest sketching buddy. I share his tale of disappointment leading to violence after missing out on Guinness and oysters - who could blame him?
09.18.2022
Episode 39: A Week In The Life Of A Sketch Worker
I’ve had a crazy week of sketching, in which a day didn’t go by without my pens and watercolours coming out for a sketch. Some of it was for work, some for fun, but all of it was a pleasure…especially...
09.11.2022
Episode 38: Sketching In The Shadow Of Rembrandt (The INKredible Episode)
In today’s episode I tell you how I made some ink and feather quills for drawing, and took them to the 10th USk Symposium in Amsterdam. And if you don’t have the wherewithal to make ink from oak apples, I...
09.04.2022
Episode 37: Staying The Distance: Practicing What I Preach
This week, I return to the familiar theme of bringing stamina to the long road that is an artist’s life. It’s my turn to show stamina as I’ve joined a gym and engaged a personal trainer. Meanwhile I receive some...
08.29.2022
Episode 36: Feel The Fear and Sketch It Anyway…
I meet lots of sketchers: some are brimming with confidence, others are terrified, and there’s often very little relationship between the level they’re at and their level of confidence. In this episode I suggest ways to beat that fear -...
08.22.2022
Episode 35: Basking In (And Sketching) Reflected Glory
Concentrating on watercolour-first in this week’s episode: Galway City Distillery with its shiny copper stills and vats is an urban sketcher’s paradise. I demonstrated capturing reflections in their working gin lab, and again at the water’s edge, sketching the stunning...
08.15.2022
Episode 34: Nature - It’s Red In Tooth And Claw
I’ve become an illustrator for the Barn Owl Project and in this episode I share a few things about these lovely creatures that you probably knew already. I record the entire episode during a thunderstorm, and I hope my terror...
08.09.2022
Episode 33: Hire Car = Higher Temper
This week I share my thoughts on the wisdom of driving on an unfamiliar side of the road, beside someone with strong ideas on how best to do that. Later, I give you a solution to a ruined sketchbook page....
08.04.2022
Episode 32: Sun, Sea and Sketch!
This week I’m coming to you from a little garden in a resort on the fabulous island of Menorca (or Minorca, as you prefer) where I’m sharing tips for sketching your family when you’re all together somewhere beautiful, and where...
07.24.2022
Episode 31: Rejection, Shmejection: It’s Not (Just) About You
In this week’s episode I out myself as a petty, jealous woman, and vain with it. But you can’t take yourself too seriously in this game or you wouldn’t last the distance: it helps to see the funny side of...
07.18.2022
Episode 30: Mrs Guns ‘n’ Roses
Thirty episodes is quite the milestone and I’m thrilled to celebrate it with this extra-long story of me and my mum Cinnie spending a few days sketching together in the beautiful Burren. It was magical! I finish off with an...
07.10.2022
Episode 29: Confessions (And Sketch Tips) Of An Artist-ocrat!
In today’s episode I share more of my favourite sketch tips. My mother Cynthia (Cinnie) is coming to stay with me this week and we’re going sketching together, so I figured I’d share our common artistic heritage with you all…Episode...
07.03.2022
Episode 28: Sketch Tip Sunday - The Therapist Will See You Now
This week’s episode is jam-packed with tips, harvested from my new Twitter account where I’ve been sharing them over the last two or three months. Now I broadcast them to you, the People!
06.27.2022
Episode 27: Barn Owls and Beer - But Not At The Same Time
I was very privileged to be initiated into the secret world of barn owls, after meeting an owl man called John. I’ve snuck in a bit about French people too - and a few tips on sketching glasses of beer!
06.23.2022
Episode 26 bis: Clermont Dessine! Version Française
Dans cet épisode je vous raconte des histoires d’un festival superbe- Clermont Dessine, un rendezvous d’ateliers ou on pouvait apprendre des clés pour mieux croquer!
06.20.2022
Episode 26: Full-On French: Sketching at Clermont Dessine in the Auvergne
I was hugely honoured to be invited to teach at Clermont Dessine this June. Here’s a little bit of deepest France for you. Francophiles please form an orderly queue
06.12.2022
Episode 25: Sun, Sea…and Sketch: The Coast Of Mauritius
In this episode I take you with me on a little boat trip off the coast of Mauritius at the height of the tropical summer, and introduce you to some of the lovely people I meet along the way. I...
06.05.2022
Episode 24: Fast & Furious - Sketching on the Motorway
In this week’s episode I inspire a Ukrainian refugee with my book Dublin in Sketches and Stories but end up coming on too strong and probably lose her. Never mind, sketching my way to Dublin was a lovely way to...
05.29.2022
Episode 23: Let There Be Light…In Watercolour
In this week’s episode, I use the very convenient subject of statues to explain a way to capture light, whether strong sunlight or more diffuse. Less is very much more when it comes to trapping sunshine on paper!

What's Sketch Therapist about?

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Sketch Therapist episodes:

Episode 71: Creatures In The Kitchen!

Episode 70: Introducing…the SketchPocket!

Episode 69: The 23rd Rendezvous du Carnet de Voyage: A Trip To The Heart Of France

Episode 68: Spring Has Sprung - and it’s time to take a break!

Episode 67: My Kit and Kaboodle - And Have I Found The Reuben Solution?

Episode 66: Stay Tacky, People!

Episode 65: The Luck O’ The Irish

Episode 64: Jeff And The Onions

Episode 63: Paint First, Then Draw After

Episode 62: I’m An Art Farmer

Episode 61: Capricious Colour in Café Sketching

Episode 60: The Sketch Therapist Turns One - A Year Of Improved Sketch Life!

Episode 59: Taking My Turn On The Sketch Therapist’s Couch

Episode 58: Sketchopolis - Where You (Won’t) Come To Sketch

Episode 57: A Tale Of Two Terriers…oh and Put That Out Please!

Episode 56: From My Perspective…Drawing Complex Lines through Observation

Episode 55: Alone In The (Entrepreneurial) Wild

Episode 54: A Beautiful Year…

Episode 53: Yuletide Greetings!

Episode 52: Jack Frost Is An Artist - Sketching A Winter Wonderland in Watercolour

Episode 51: The Sketch Therapist Is An Œnophile (That’s A Fancy Wino To You And Me)

Episode 50: Not All Heroines Wear Capes - Taking Offence At Everything

Episode 49: Zut Alors…

Episode 48: Planes, Trains & Automobiles - A Bon Voyage?

Episode 47: How Art Transcends Our Meat Vehicle: Meet My First Guest!

Episode 46: Seeing Ghosts: Adding People to a Busy Scene

Episode 45: Feel The Seasons And Sketch Them Anyway

Episode 44: Thinking Ink - PumpkINK, Pen & INK & INKtober!

Episode 43: Autumnal Leaves On A Sketch Tip Sunday

Episode 42: Sketching Coffee, Croissants and Comely Cailíní!

Episode 41: A Bounteous Sea, Bay Boletes and Boiling Barn Owls

Episode 40: Sketching The City Of The Tribes…With My Tribe

Episode 39: A Week In The Life Of A Sketch Worker

Episode 38: Sketching In The Shadow Of Rembrandt (The INKredible Episode)

Episode 37: Staying The Distance: Practicing What I Preach

Episode 36: Feel The Fear and Sketch It Anyway…

Episode 35: Basking In (And Sketching) Reflected Glory

Episode 34: Nature - It’s Red In Tooth And Claw

Episode 33: Hire Car = Higher Temper

Episode 32: Sun, Sea and Sketch!

Episode 31: Rejection, Shmejection: It’s Not (Just) About You

Episode 30: Mrs Guns ‘n’ Roses

Episode 29: Confessions (And Sketch Tips) Of An Artist-ocrat!

Episode 28: Sketch Tip Sunday - The Therapist Will See You Now

Episode 27: Barn Owls and Beer - But Not At The Same Time

Episode 26 bis: Clermont Dessine! Version Française

Episode 26: Full-On French: Sketching at Clermont Dessine in the Auvergne

Episode 25: Sun, Sea…and Sketch: The Coast Of Mauritius

Episode 24: Fast & Furious - Sketching on the Motorway

Episode 23: Let There Be Light…In Watercolour