Here it is, "Two Lost Souls", the piece in full.
And I am delighted to say all the prints sold out!!!
If you would like to see the other prints up for grabs, check em out here 

I would also just like to say a huge thanks to all the people who bought a copy of my work. I was really over the moon to see how quickly they were snapped up!

Subcultures

Here is my entry for the "Subcultures" theme on the Bouldermedia Art Blog. This is a Brony. A subculture brought about by the fandom of the "My Little Pony" cartoon. Bronies are typically male 20 somethings....

Who said My Little Pony is just for the girls?!?!?!

Today's the Day!

The exhibition is today. I'm really looking forward to seeing the new studio and all the prints on display. I reckon it is gonna be a really cool event. Here's a little teaser of my piece!
More teasers of the other artists pieces here 

Unicorn

Here's a little drawing Layla did for me over the weekend. She saw my little Unicorn I drew a while back and wanted to draw me her version of it. I prefer hers!

The Grand Total...

How about that. The grand total raised for the Animation Art Show was way above 2012's total. 12,500 euros raised for The Jack and Gill Foundation and LauraLynn House. Needless to say both charities were over the moon with the money raised and will go to helping out those families.

Nunu went to a wonderful little girl called Mia, who promised to look after him with lots of love and cuddles. She sent me this picture of him settling in in his new home hahahahahaha!!!
Roll on Next year!

Lucky Break!

A lovely lady from Damn Fine Print saw my piece from "The Art of Superstition" exhibition and mailed me about this upcoming event ran by Damn Fine Print, called "Sounds Damn Fine". Running of the success of last years Damn Fine Dublin exhibition they wanted to do it again to celebrate the unveiling of their brand new screenprinting studio in Smithfield.

 So I did a piece.

It had to be a two colour design, as the posters are going to be screenprinted, inspired by a song or lyric

And....

I got selected to be part of the exhibition. I couldn't really believe it. Never in an exhibition and then two in the matter of a couple of months. I can't really say how excited I am...but I am! I have to keep my piece under wraps until the teasers come out on the FB page. Top Secret you see. But they are putting new ones up every day. So do check em out.

If you would like to find out more about Damn Fine Print check out their Facebook Page here
It is going to be a very exciting event, with lots of Art and Music. So save the date and head along on the 5th of December.

The Copper House Gallery- The Art of Superstition

Here's a couple of snaps from the Art of Superstition exhibition I was part of. I was so happy to see what a beautiful job the framers did with my piece. It was a great night and the exhibition itself was full of super talented people that I was delighted to have shared the event with. The exhibition has been extended another couple of weeks due to popular demand and there are talks of it going on tour. Exciting!!!

Thanks to Illustrators Ireland, The Copper House Gallery, my Da, and all my Buddies for coming along to support me in my first ever exhibition.

You guys rock. 

The softer side to The Hulk

Nunu

Nunu

This is Nunu. Created for the Animation Art Show and Auction 2013. He is part of a range of Monsters made by me aka "Freckles n' Fur" and will be available for bidding at the Art show running 2-3rd November in the Science Gallery, Pearse Street, Dublin.

It is all for a fantastic cause. Lastyear we raised 8900 euro for Laura Lynn House and The Jack and Jill Foundation, both very deserving charities, so come along and see if you can grab yourselves an original piece of art for a great cause!!!

The Art of Superstition.

"By the Light of the Moon"

I am super excited to announce that on Friday 11th (this Friday) an exhibition ran by Illustrators Ireland will take place called "The Art of Superstition" in The Copper House Gallery, Synge Street Dublin from 6.00-8.00. I have been lucky enough to have been chosen to have my piece, "By the Light of the Moon" hang along side 39 other artists, including Peter Donnelly, Steve Simpson, PJ Lynch, Niamh Sharkey and Kevin McSherry.

The exhibition runs from the 11th-31 October and by the looks of things is going to be a very an exciting event.

Admission is free and everybody is welcome. The exhibition will conclude with a Halloween Party were all superstitions will be put to the test!

Me's

by Jamie Teehan

by Sophia Daly

by Neev Brennan

Sometimes people in work like to draw the other people in work. Here are 3 drawings of me done by 3 of my Boulder pals, Jamie, Sophia and Neev. Love all 3, particularly Jamie's version. He got my bun perfick!

Unicorn

Just a quickie for the Bouldermedia Art Blog theme of "Mythical Creatures".

Animation Art Show 2013

The Animation Art Show 2013 is back and looks like it will be bigger and better then it's debut lastyear!

Here is a little bit of info about the event:
It will take place in the Science Gallery, Pearse Street, Trinity College, Dublin 2 on the 2nd and 3rd of November 2013.
The art pieces will be on show in the Studios 1 and 2 during the entirety of weekend and the auction will take place in the Paccar Theatre on Sunday.
This show is fundraising in aid of LauraLynn Children’s Hospice and Jack and Jill Foundation.
The show is opened to all Animation professionals, past and present, and students of Animation.
The deadline for submissions is the 19th October!!!

This was a massive success last year and great fun. So get yer socks on and get out those art materials and get submitting.
Go to the FB and TWITTER pages to keep up to date on developments and get your submission forms.
Any other queries contact the Animation Art Show team at animationartshow@gmail.com.
It's gonna be great!

The Art of Superstition

I received some great news over the weekend that my piece has been chosen to be part of the Illustrators Ireland "The Art of Superstition" exhibition in October. I couldn't believe it. This is be my first time ever to be involved in an exhibition...well apart from our colleges ones. So I'm really excited.
You can check out the teasers of some of the entries on The Art of Superstition facebook page here.

Mr Sweet Tooth

I did these up for a presentation my cousin's wife was doing on cleaning teeth. She didn't want the talk to be all writing and bullet points and be all boring so I drew these up for her. Mr Sweet Tooth teaching the kiddies what they need to brush their teeth.

Wolverine

Don't get me wrong I'm not like a huge Superhero buff or nothin. I just seem to like drawing little sketches of em right now!

Flippin' Doozer!

Just a little Doozer doing a back flip!

Sarwah...Fwend!

I did this for the Jim Henson Theme on the Bouldermedia Artblog  this month. It is good ol' Ludo if you didn't know. From one of my favourite movies of all time, Labyrinth.

Die Antwoord

Die Antwoord

I went to see these guys a couple of weeks back in The Olympia. I'm just a bit obsessed with them at the moment. You can check the link out and see wot I mean......deadly!!!
 "Fatty Boom Boom".

Batman

Ne,ne,ne,ne,ne,ne,ne,ne.....Ne,ne,ne,ne,ne,ne,ne,ne
BATMAN!!!!!

Man of Steel

Is it a bird?
Is it a plane?
No, it's Superman
Technically this tagline doesn't work anymore cause of Supermans little friends here but anyways!!!!

This is also up on the Irish Sketch Societies Facebook page, Superman was the theme, would you have guessed???
More Superheroes to follow real soon...

Stay Puft

I did this up for the next Bouldermedia Artblog Theme. Pop over and have a look if you feel like a look at some of the other posts(they are really cool). What I had in my head and what I finished up with are quite different. I really need to work on my lighting and colour and composition.
Well everything really. But at least I managed to get something done.

*Sigh*

Final Life Drawing

Some sketches from our last life drawing class for a while.

Slow Loris

I was working on something for the Bouldermedia Artblog for the "Animal Behaviour" theme last month. I didn't manage to get it finish at all what with being busy with deadlines and that. Only got a sketch and a colour kinda key done. I do intend to finish this little guy with a nice background and lighting and stuff so when I do I'll pop it up.

Life Drawing...Blind

Back to life drawing after a good few weeks. This time we took a different approach to what we were doing and drew blind (looking only at the figure, not at the page and trusting yourself to do the rest) . The first one I found myself cheating quite alot and looking down to the page but these four I stayed from looking at my page so I popped thme up cause I think the finished pieces are kinda interesting. I learnt alot about my approach to drawing and how I observe...really enjoyed the class.

Inky Little Birds

Stephen and Liz's Wedding

My little brother Stephen got married to the beautiful Liz at the weekend. As you can see they are pretty happy about the whole thing LOL. They asked me to do a characature of them both for the guest book. So here it is. I don't do this kinda thing that often cause I find it really hard to get likenesses but these two seemed to turn out okay. Well, the happy couple were happy with it so I am happy with it :) They are off now on Safari in South Africa...Lucky Duckers!

Life Drawing

I thought I would go a whole lot of different with some ink and water this life drawing class. Here are the originals, the ones on the right have a little bit a camera trickery to them. The drawings aren't great but I am going to stick with it and see what happens when I get a bit more familiar with the materials.

Life Drawing

1,2 & 3 minute gesture drawings

First life drawing class of 2013.