New digital download prints on the shop...

I've been enjoying getting into the world of Etsy and it definitely gives me a sense of accomplishment to see how much work I have, I pretty much always feel like I need to be doing more, so it's satisfying to see that I actually have a lot to show for myself!

I noticed that you can sell work as a download also on the site, and I went back to the many digital illustrations i've done over the years and threw up a few different examples - shown here. All work available for download can be found here.
Yay art!

Life Drawing '13

Week 1 - 1.10.13

Week 2 - 8.10.13

Week 3 - 15.10.13

Week 4 - 22.10.13

Week 5 - 19.11.13

Week 6 - 28.11.12

Week 7 - 03.12.13

Yesterday evening was my final class of life drawing until the new year. I managed to miss 3 classes :( disappointed with that. I really enjoyed yesterday's class. Here is my work from the 7 weeks. I thought it would be interesting to post them all (even the really ropey ones!) to give an idea of the progression, I hope they're improving!

Not Pop

A while back I previewed EP artwork for Cork band Slow Motion Heroes' upcoming new EP, Not Pop. The lads released the artwork on Facebook this week so now I can show the full thing here! Not Pop is the follow on EP from Pop, the idea was to create two very contrasting EPs in terms of musical style, I was contracted to do art work for both so I tried to reflect this in what I produced. Looking forward to the Not Pop release on Oct 8th in Bradleys on Barrack St and seeing the work in print!

You can download the EP from here, strongly recommended, it's fantastic!

Beginning the Market Bench project

BIG NEWS!! I'm a first year undergrad student at Applied Art in Crawford College of Art and Design as of this week! Wooo!! As a result i've bid a sad goodbye to DEIS. I've had a good 5 years here and have great colleagues. I'm really excited, also scared about money but mainly really excited.

We started our first ceramics project yesterday. Making a bench based on the theme of market. I got myself down to the fine English Market and took some snaps. I was thinking of doing a ridiculous / hilarious tacky bench commemorating the Queen's visit, covering it with fish motifs in reference to that brilliant photo, in the style of the typical ridiculous / hilarious tacky ceramic monarchy memorabilia! I've kind of gone from that idea now though, instead i'm thinking of making a giant chilli bench, bright, colourful, and I love chillies, is that enough of a reason?! Art college: you tell me! I was at Electric Picnic earlier this month and they had this great art piece in the Body and Soul, a giant table & chairs, it creates a lovely surrealness sitting on something that makes you feel tiny, so I guess that's what i'm going for with this chilli! I'm also thinking of the fab Mae West couch created by Elsa Schiaparelli and Salvador Dali.

Here are some of my pictures from today, I love the market!

Not Pop - Preview

Part two of two images (pop here), just a preview! The work should be totally finished and printed by the end of April, wohoo!

Oil Pastels!

I've been getting back into oil pastels after a (long!) hiatus, you can get really intense colours with them. I experimented a bit in photoshop with this image, breaking it up and layering it to bring out the colours even more. I was thinking of Paul Gauguin images when I did this, hoping for a slightly tropical/intimate feel.

It's been a crazy month with Dubai-Volcano-Romania, things should be getting back to normal now I think....

Pastel Portrait

Love Pastels.

This is done in oil & chalk pastels, can never make up my mind which I like more!

Portfolio Image Part Deux

My second post in a day, am I developing an addiction?!

A few weeks ago I started work on an image for the home page of my updated portfolio website. I finally got back to working on it again today/tonight. The last version I did turned out really flat so this time round I did a number of the components with oil pastels, scanned them all (with my really slow scanner...) and layered them up in photoshop, this isn't finished at all, but I definitely prefer this direction...

Image for HIN album cover

Done in pastels & photoshop (face in photoshop with a wacom, pastels in pastels!) I'm hoping it reflects the energy and intensity of the songs on the album, as well as the lovely layered melodies & textures they've got going on.