Good Wives and Warriors animate!

Just came across this Good Wives and Warriors animation through Computer Arts. Their illustrative style fits perfectly into a psychedelic trance-y type animation. Can't wait to see more of this from them!

Here they are chatting about their process, I love what they do, it seems like a stream-of-consciousness, i'd love to hear about how they go about planning for these large scale paintings. Do they plan? Or do they just go with whatever comes out?

You can see more of their work on their website, I blogged about them last year as well.

Photoshopping Pt. 2

Last week we had our first photoshop session as part of our New Media module. This week was our final afternoon of it, good fun all round! This is my second final image - I think! I'm always tempted to keep messing with them, but we just have so much other stuff to do that I don't have time!

It's a collage of photographs taken at the Giant's Causeway, at a gig and of loads of graffiti and some Gaudi glass in Barcelona.

Photoshopping

This afternoon as part of our series of lectures and workshops in New Media we created few photoshop images. Here's the first of mine, I need to finalise another one next week. It's a combination of a photograph of my eye and a photograph that I took on the Conor Pass. I was initially drawn to the photo because of the really strong dark triangle in the foreground of the image. It happened accidentally but made the composition of the photograph stronger and more interesting. Trying to hold myself back from too many miscellaneous Photoshop effects and filters as I was doing it! I'd forgotten how much fun photoshop is. It was really nice hearing other people's reactions to it as well when they hadn't been exposed to it before, they were all blown away by what you can do.

The fabulous felt collages of Jacopo Rosati

I'm currently starting a textile project with one of my first year groups. Serendipitously, amazing blog its nice that featured the amazing felt collages of Jacopo Rosati back in December when I was thinking about the project. The work is amazing, and so much fun. I know my first years will love it and hopefully it will really inspire them to get some of their own fabric collages going.

I emailed Jacopo for information on how he makes the collages. He's such a nice man! He emailed me back almost immediately with a link to a video of his process (featured below). Can't wait to see what work the pupils produce, i'll let Jacopo know how they get on!

Dermot Power

Wow, my poor blog is getting more and more neglected :( it's been a really crazy 2013 so far, the dip seems to be even busier this semester! Maybe i'm still just settling in.

I'm doing concept art with one of my first year groups at the moment. We're looking at character concept art as a way to get them interested in life drawing. This week they'll be developing their own characters based on story archetypes. I'm looking forward to seeing what they come up with!

I showed them some of Dermot Power's work last week. They loved it! His concept art is amazing and I think it's inspiring to show the pupils the work of someone from Cork who has really excelled at what he does.

Here's some of that work I showed them, there's loads more on his site.

NOLA nostalgia

It's Mardi Gras today in New Orleans, so i'm getting nostalgic for our trip last year.

I took sooo many photos on that trip, here are some screenshots of the typography related ones, just for nostalgia central.

Art of St. Als!

As i've mentioned, i'm currently doing my H.Dip placement in my old school, St. Aloysius College, Carrigtwohill. It's great being back and seeing how everything works from the other side! When I was a student I had no idea how much planning and co-ordination goes on, not to mention the close eye that was kept on all of us!

Over Christmas I set up a blog for the art department, artofstalscarrig.blogspot.com. You can check it out here. It showcases work from across the six years in the various disciplines. There's been some really incredible work produced, this just gives you a taster.

Not art related, but I also set up a TY blog with the pupils have been keeping really active, it gives a great insight into the school, you can check it out here.