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Welcome to Nine Arrow, a place where I share my illustration journey in Irish.

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‘cupla focail as gaeilge’ / few words in Irish.

~ Beagán a rá agus a rá go maith ~

~ Say a little and say it well. ~

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Last in my water triptych. For this lake inspired image I thought back to my time spent in Japan especially attending light festivals where lanterns were often displayed close to or launched into the water creating beautiful shimmers and reflections. I really wanted to capture some movement in the water, swipe to see more details. . . .

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This is the 2nd in a triptych commission with the theme of water. This oar shows the rowing team colours of Queen's University Belfast. Part of commision work is chatting with people about their ideas, or what inspires them about the theme they want me to explore. I really love that aspect of custom artwork as it pushes me out of my comfort zone and gets my creativity firing up! I like this piece as I wanted to capture my clients connection with this rowing club and it took a few different goes to land on the right one, especially as I kept drawing standard style kayaking oars #níl-a-fhios-spóirt-agam but we got there in the end and I feel this captures the movement and speed ag rámhaíocht ar an abhainn . . .

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This is the first post in a triptych commission that I adored working on! The theme was water and researching this in Irish brought up so many interesting words and phrases. ‘Folt fion na farraige’ means the white crested waves of the sea. ‘Foltfhionn’ can also be used to describe someone with fair hair, which, when you think about atlantic waves crashing on the shore, it does bring up the image of some epic hair flowing in the wind! Maybe a little more like horses manes flowing ...or is that the old guinness ad just stuck in my head 🤣

beidh aoine sona daoibh / have a happy friday everyone and enjoy the weekend❤️☘️ . . .

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I had to draw this spring flower the minute I saw its name, lus na gaoithe ❤️ (plant of the wind) which is a wood anemone (I can't even say anemone in my head thanks to Finding Nemo🤣). This flower blooms from March to May and you can spot it growing in heather shrubs, well that's what wildflowersofIreland.net says 😉 the only thing I know about flowers is that I can't grow them 😅 . . .

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