Summer Solstice Mural

Met up with Lauren & Tomas last night to put together rough ideas for the summer solstice mural, here's what we came up with, I won't be there to paint it (booo!) and i'd imagine the finished piece will be a lot more developed than this! Much will be added organically on the day, can't believe i'm missing it! It's going to be painted this Saturday in Midleton

Electric Picnic Comp

I just submitted my entry to the Electric Picnic ad competition, wish me luck!

Seeing as there was so much text that had to be included I decided to make it the main feature. I wanted it to be really colourful and hyper looking. I thought it would be visually interesting to mix the hand-drawn type with the isometric buildings. The three isometric temples represent the hierarchy of acts. I decided to do the names of acts in handwritten font, like the bubble handwriting kids do. The other spin off aspects of EP are represented by smaller isometric blocks. The idea is that it's all connected and it can be either a universe or a tiny microcosm.

EP stipulated the image be submitted in jpg form, which i'm a bit worried makes the colours in such a bright / flat image a bit pixelated and dirty looking. Here it is in .png anyway.

*****edit**** My poster has been shortlisted! Voting tomorrow, i'm so delighted!

New Tshirt Designs

My friend Lauren and some other artists are organising a Summer Solstice Celebration Day in Midleton this June. As part of the day there'll be a little market, i'm renting a stall with my friend Fred. I'm selling tshirts, Fred's selling jewelery, should be fun!

Here's a few designs i'm getting printed at shirtysomething. The first two are inspired by Alvin Lustig, who I think is AMAZING. The third is a rework of an old poster graphic.

I'm going to do a few more sketchy ones by hand with laundry pens, really looking forward to doing them. When they're done i'll take pictures and stick them up here too, and hopefully i'll have a few pictures of the day itself, we'll be painting a mural and other fun things!

World Cup

I just got shivers watching the new W+K Nike ad, man I wish we were in the World Cup :(

Original "France" Drawing

I blogged a while ago about some concept illustrations I did for Cork band Slow Motion Heroes.

I've been getting old illustration work together and came across this, I mentioned in my original post that I spent quite a bit of time working on the buildings, the perspective and texture, really the bulk of design work went into those elements, so I thought it'd be worth popping this up here.

Workwise, i'm tearing busy as usual, doing more courses for the NMCI and another promo ad for NAIRTL. On a totally unrelated note, i'm listening to Massive Attacks Heligoland on Grooveshark, really liking it!

New Website Navigation

I'm working on a new dimension to my site navigation. I'm thinking of changing the navigation to incorporate a flash animation using these rollover images for "Blog - Work - About". I'm toying with the idea of printing out the outlines and painting them, or colouring them in illustrator, early days yet! The first image here has been done in pen and colouring pencils. The "work" & "about" image are in pen.

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....