Gorgeous Golf Art from GolfSketch
As many of you know my other passion is art and I just love looking at it, producing it and writing about it and now creating DVDs on it. I actually recently completed an DVD called, An Introductory Guide to Oil Painting Tools and Supplies
And when it comes to golf course art – there after seems to be a lot more bad than good. So I was quite surprised when I was made aware of a young golf course architect named Nick O’Connell who lives in Paris, France.
What first caught my eye was the beauty of his work. You can see one up above but are a little misleading seeing them on a computer screen.
He sent me one of his calendars which has beautifully reproduced pencil sketches of courses around the world – and on the most luscious, heavyweight, cream-colored paper.
Some of the sketches of courses include: Royal County Down in Northern Ireland, Ballybunion in Ireland, Royal Porthcawl in Wales and Gleneagles in Scotland.
Of course, the craftsmanship and exquisite detail of the drawings are what first lure you in but it is his unique perspective as a golf course architect that gives them a unique perspective.
He has a beautifully simple website called GolfSketch which you can order the calendar (2010 of course) and also has (just as beautiful) greeting cards you can purchase as well. By the way, the greeting cards are printed using waterless ink on card from sustainable forests.
Finally, for every card sold, Golf Sketch will donate a percentage to ‘Just A Drop’ water charity and each card depicts the ‘Just A Drop’ logo on its back.
These would make perfect gifts for the upcoming holidays for your golfing friends, associates and clients which go to help a support Nick’s golf study trips (which can get expensive fast!) and the wonderful “Just a Drop” charity.
Who knows, maybe we’ll be saying the Name Nick O’Connell in the same breath as Rees Jones, Alister MacKenzie and Donald Ross one day.
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