Monday, August 17, 2015

A Childhood Memory with the help of an image from the Internet

I'm trying to do as much of Everyday in August drawing as I possibly can! #17-Childhood memory.  Wow! This was a hard one! I am an Air Force brat (Canada) and my Dad was station overseas in France so we visited around Europe. I have more stories from Ireland than anywhere because my Dad wanted to find his grand-fathers grave. We visited many, many (I thought at the time too many) grave yards. That means my Dad would visit the priest to check their records and would be in there for what felt like hours. Who was he to say no to a wee glass of Irish whiskey!! We never did find it for sure! I was going to draw Blarney Castle but finally settled on this drawing. I'm a Maloney and my family is from County Clare abc had been indentured to the O'Briens so of course we visited O'Brien's Castle on the Cliffs of Moher! It was built by Cornelius O'Brien in 1835. The view is stunning. As I recall, the "castle" not so much! I had to check google for images and one the left is a close up of a very cleaned up tourist attraction. When we were there it was more like the movie The Highlander and it included cow patties or meadow muffins in the field surrounding it. On the right is a quick sketch of another view from a distance. It is still clear in my mind how breath-taking it all was! Thanks for reminding me these precious moments in time and I hope to see it again in the very near future.

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