Illustrators Eve @ Easons

On Thursday (19th) a coursemate and I went along for the Illustrators Evening in Easons, featuring David Melling, Niamh Sharkey, Chris Judge and Chris Haughton.

David went up first and he gave a nice professional presentation, then taught us how to draw one of his characters in stick-man style, line by line (as did each illustrator after their presentation). David's character was a goblin from one of his books.

No Eoghan!!! You're doing it WRONG!!

Chris Judge (who previously guest lectured us for a class) explaining his The Lonely Beast storybook and illustrations.

A little mix-up though... the audience wasn't made up of children as the illustrators (or staff?) expected. A whole two hours of older people drawing cartoon characters and stick men the same way 6 year old's would be taught... priceless!

So cute!

Danleo @ KTContemporary

After running around in circles for almost a week I finally made it to Danleo's exhibition hosted at KTContemporary (the eye-melting bright orange building on Donnybrook Rd).

Fortunately photos were allowed to be taken! Huzzah!

Painting from the exhibition advertisement. Huge!

I have my sights on the Shiva painting! Lotto numbers, come to me...

The tree stumps and lightning clouds were painted onto the wall while the crane in the foreground was cut out of wood and popped out from the wall.

There was a little selection of 'layered' paintings-- layers of wood painted and placed into a deep frame and covered with glass. A cool change to just paintings was that there was even a clock in the shape of a birdhouse on exhibit. About 20~ pieces in total and a giant wall mural hiding behind the corner. Nice to see these paintings in person rather than online. Very kooky!

Paper Jam @ The Atrium

The second year Illustration, Graphic Design and Fibre Art students hosted their graduate show at The Atrium in Temple Bar last night. A good show-out (so good that the entire four stories of the building were almost impossible to move in), some freebies, cool people and a nice atmosphere! It was nice to finally get to properly see what the second years had been getting up to as well as a nice look at what the other two courses were doing. I made sure to be a detective and find out what the AIH2 work is like so I'm mentally prepared :D

Vertigo much?

Some stuff I nabbed from the exhibition (alongside the free wine!). The 'zine (top left) is produced by AIH2 students, displaying comics and prints that were done throughout the year. I grabbed a few business cards (to add to the ridiculously huge collection I already have) from some of the AIH and Graphic Design peoples' sections, some smaller versions of prints the Graphic Design students made and other cool postcards.

DURP!