Fables

Commissioned painting. emily's self-schooling. and a rather concerned looking bird. on canvas with acrylic. 45cm x 60cm.





and here's something else;

A little wildness

So this weeks homework was something i'd been intending on doing for ages, and i had a fair idea what i was going to do after working on the set painting last month. again, this is just the start of a project, i intend to find some open-minded folk to offer a wall or two for similar sort of paintings. i'll be mostly doing that through email and facebook, if anyone wants to know more, get in touch. anyway, here's a painting. i'll post some photos later in the week.

Homework - Goats in trees!

new-found art director/work monitor, emer, has been kindly assigning me homework, to help spur on various projects and cut down on needless procrastinating. have many projects i intend to get working on this year, so any enforced discipline is muchly welcomed. last weeks homework was on a shared love of that most revered of phenomenons; goats in trees. My homework, therefore, was 20 goats by thursday. we'd also been discussing minature animal portraits, so...

shrigley goats

we have further plans for these tree loving fellows, the homework was just a starter.

this weeks homework is a good one. on a much bigger scale and something i've been meaning to do for ages. i haven't been given a deadline though....thursday again?

also made some much needed edits to the projects section on my portfolio site.

little wildness

recent sketchbook work.




good things from the web;

hye su lee's illustration

Thomas Thwaites building a toaster. from scratch

Fabric designs by Gunta Stölzl

in gardens such as temples

givings and recievings

some pictures from the holiday season. this was from an older drawing that i did on a larger scale. its acrylic on canvas, around 70cm x 110cm.





emily's all about roots lately.



here's a commission i did for some friends from an old picture of a village in.....louth? athone?....i have no memory. i forgot to get a decent scan of it before it was framed. i get slightly panicked when asked to draw things that actually exist.


and here's just one of those things i do for my own sake.

new work for thursday

have to say, loving how some of the recent pictures are turning out, very happy with what i have ready for thursday (be happier when i've the rest finished!);




a new emily i'm quite fond of;

little learnings

here's a painting i did for the Independents Day 2010 earlier in the month. acrylic on wood.

photo @ Independents Day2010 by Esther Moliné

Independents... independence... in dependence

Independents Day 2010, yesterday at the Food Co-op, was most enjoyable. Great atmosphere in the place and many a good thing going on. Also met some very beautiful people, which, sales or not, generally makes these things worth it. sales-wise went well though, so thanks to ye kind patrons. i wasn't too sure how i'd fit in, expecting it more centered towards comic and zines, but there was a great mix of stalls. and some great comic artists. Came away with a few particularly nice ones, Liam Geraghty and Philip Barrett's Gazebo was an instant must-have;

and a few very nice bits by Patrick Lynch and Katie Blackwood of Cardboard Press.

Niamh deBarra played a great set. here's a lovely track for SSTN's string series;

Potholing (Live) - For SSTN Strings by Niamh de Barra

and here's new things from the studio. its all skulls and stripes these days;

Getting cold out...

new pic, acrylic on paper, a4. super pleased with this one (though i'm not too sure if i'm happy with her mouth...may need fixing). she's a little less weighted than usual, but sure everyone needs a break every now and than. i had a pair of blue and white gloves like these from oxfam. but i lost them. its getting colder out too. and i'm slightly paranoid about the cold. a craft market friend, emma mcmanus, makes jewellery out of random things. i got a lovely clock pendant off her for my sister. it had the back exposed to show all the cogs and inner workings. it looked nicer than emily's. the key is just a key. for a house. sinking in the sand.

the details;





and some progress pics;

its not without a sense of irony that this is my favourite mug.
(its not without stupidity i often leave my tea dangerously close to my paint water...)

there are certainly traces of my passing

lost a few minutes earlier staring at patterns of paint on my desk. i'm tempted to cut it up into sections and frame it. i have actual fruits of producticiousness to share too, but, worryingly, i think these are possibly more interesting;

this one was only slightly edited

there's a mosaic of wood, tile and card spreading across my floor. will have lots of fun things to share soon.


here's one newbie i'm particularly fond of;


working on making my site neater. slowly, since i've actual work to do. at the minute what i have up is a bit all over the place, so going to have just a simple one page site, with links outbound and maybe just a seperate projects section that will pretty much be the old site. it'll look something like this;