This is a watercolour and pen and ink card I made for friends who have moved into a new house in Thailand. Elephants are very much part of the culture and way of life there, so I think she'll appreciate the humour behind the picture. I'm not sure if Thai elephants have tusks though!

Went mad and bought a sepia pen! Here are a few doodles of boxes to create a patchwork quilt effect. I saw an excellent exhibition of quilts in Limerick recently. It's utterly amazing to see the work that goes into them - all those teeny, weeny stitches! Sewing in a button is a major event in my life so I couldn't even begin to imagine sewing a kingsize quilt. I think I'm a 'big picture' person and the detail is best left to the experts. How about you?

I haven't been drawing for a while but got going again in the past few weeks. I recently took pen and ink to paper with a drawing of a gateway. It's the gate into a friend's house - well the house he grew up in. Wrought iron is not my speciality but I had fun doing this drawing. 'Warts and all' it's gone in the post as a little momento to my friend who now lives in Dublin.

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You Are Likely a Third Born

At your darkest moments, you feel vulnerable.At work and school, you do best when you're comparing things.When you love someone, you tend to like to please them. In friendship, you are loyal to one person.Your ideal careers are: sales, police officer, newspaper reporter, inventor, poet, and animal trainer.You will leave your mark on the world with inventions, poetry, and inspiration.

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Did you ever hear the phrase 'be careful what you wish for, 'cause it could come true'. Well it's true.

For years I've been saying I'd love to attend a drawing class. I've looked all over the place and last January by chance (as if there is such a thing) I heard an ad on local radio and lo and behold I started on an Art Porfolio Preparation course on 24th January.

The course is designed for would-be applicants to the School of Art here in Limerick. The participants are mainly final year students in secondary school with the odd mature student thrown in...ok I finally admit it, I'm odd!

I'm having the time of my life on this course. Never having done art at school I could give loads of reasons why I shouldn't do the course at all. Every 'reason' could be blown out of the water in one way or another.

Our teacher's motto is 'drawing is not like brain surgery...if you get it wrong, no one dies.' With that liberating philosophy behind me I just can't go wrong.

In the past 8 weeks we've progressed from line drawings in pencil to tonal drawings in both pencil, charcoal and also colour - for colour I used oil pastels. Unfortunately we've only got 2 classes left.

But hey there are lots more wishes to wish!

All the best
Ger