I am not an artist and could never draw/paint/sketch or do anything with oils/acrylics/charcoal but if I could I would probably paint something like this image I took of the sea looking out over the mountains at Carlingford, County Louth. The image hasn't been touched up or any special effects added to it, it was a 1/8 second exposure at f22 and I really like it, taken at 1 minute past 6 last Sunday (13th September) I love the colours and sense of drama. Incidentally, to th e best of my knowledge I got a C in Art in my LeavingCert, the highest mark for my art theory where I wrote an essay eschewing the virtues of a work of art entitled 'How to Explain pictures to a dead hare' by German sculptor Joseph Beuys, which all sounds pompous and pretentious, the fact is at that time in school students had to pick their favourite painting and write an essay about it for the Leaving Cert state exam.
I didn't like art at the time and certainly had no favourite painting so I scanned quickly through a book of modern art and found the aforementioned piece and figured if I wrote about it rather than the Mona Lisa or Picasso's Ice Cream I stood a better chance of getting noticed and therefore getting a higher mark for originality, I reckon it worked.
