Carlberg Comedy Festival 2009

The Carlsberg Comedy Festival, which takes palce in the Iveagh Gardens, Dublin from Thursday 23rd - Sun 26th, have decided to run with the same artwork I worked on last Summer with IIBBDO for the 2008 festival. I've just started to see some stuff pop up around the city.

When I was out for my elevenzis this morning I found myself running after a bus on Camden street to get a photo of it on the side panel. So strolled down to to Wexford street to where I had spotted two large posters and a bus stop on the way in which had them on it.

Looks like a great line-up so see you there if you like laughing and getting sunburnt.

Beasts

I've been working on and off on these Beast images over the last few years and have just started gathering them all together. Most of them are photos I've taken on my travels and holidays over the last few years that I've drawn into. I'm going to work on an animation using the characters soon but thought it would be nice do a little film just panning across the original images like an old 70's movie sequence.

I've been obsessing over Bill Callahan's latest album 'Sometimes I wish we were an Eagle' (highly recommended if you haven't got it) so I decided to put the little film to my favourite song from it 'Jim Cain'.

Have a look if you've got a few minutes to spare or click here for a bigger youtube version

Fruit Pastilles

I worked on these Fruit Pastilles illustrations with Mark Shanley in DDFHB about two years ago and I really loved the way they turned out. I'm never quite certain how things will look when they've made the move from my screen out into the real world but so it was great news to hear that they wanted to use them again for a new campaign. I've just started spotting them around town on the bus shelters and backs of buses. Big colourdy fun!

Eigse Arts Festival 2009

Alan & Stephen looking Dandy




I was delighted to be asked to take part in this years Eigse arts festival in Carlow. The beautiful St. Patrick's College in the town center is host to a huge exhibition of paintings by various artists from around the country. This year they have a dedicated space of work by four Irish illustrators including myself, Alan Clarke, Derry Dillon and Stephen Ledwidge.

We piled down on Friday evening for the opening which was great fun. The show runs until the 21st and is well worth a look if you're in that part of the country.

New Website and Postcard Box

Blimey. After working on and tweaking my new website for the last two months I finally finished it last night and uploaded it. There's a bunch of new work up there as well as some new sections. Have a browse if you have a moment and please alert me of any broken links as well as spelling mistakes (of which there's a few no doubt).



I've also just made a brand new box of treats available for purchase on the site in the shop section which contains 8 shiny new postcards, a fancy poster and an original mini signed water colour painting all for the princely sum of €20 which includes free postage.

Ben & Jerry's Canvas Bag

This is my design for a canvas bag for Ben & Jerry's new Fair Trade Chocolate Macadamia flavour that I worked on recently with Thinkhouse. The theme was Its What’s Inside That Counts.

May Latest Work on Scamp

Lots of great new work by IGI members from the month of May just uploaded on Scamp.ie.

Movies.ie 2

Just realised I never posted the last movies.ie illustration I worked on. It's in the middle double page spread of the Movies+ free mini mag that's out at the moment.

I've been a bit crap at posting recently as I've been mad busy. I'm also nearly finished a brand new website and blog which will both go live next week hopefully.

Don't Touch Donkeys

Totally forgot about this photo I took in Sligo last Summer I thought I'd share it with you. Reminds me of David Shrigley in the real world.

Mr. Ben Bulben relaxing in the background.

Hail V Freezing Rain

Small illustration I did for Scholastic SuperScience Magazine based on the question sent in:

Q:What is the difference between hail and freezing rain?

Synth Eastwood Tonight

Home Maid™ decommissioned and recycled as a lamp.

The lads getting the place ready.

I stayed up very late working on the various parts for our Home Maid for tonight's Synth Eastwood. I was in Film Base this morning setting it up and making sure it was working properly. It was the first time the whole thing had been assembled so I was delighted when it all came together. I was standing beside him just after I finished him and a swear he was looking at me out of the corner of his eyes and when I turned to look at them they whipped back looking straight ahead...

It was all go this morning and there was tons of amazing work coming in. It's going to be a brilliant night I reckon. See you there if you're there!

I'll post some photos from the night on Monday.

Kerry Bicycle Festival

I completely forgot to post about the Kerry Bicycle Festival! There's a group exhibition called Frame as part of it, I have this painting in it. It opened last Saturday and finishes tomorrow so if you're in that neck of the woods stick your head in sounds like it's a great show.

Synth Eastwood

If you in Duberlin this Friday I highly recommend dropping in to Film base for the launch of the new Synth Eastwood night (Home Made) which follows on over to the Button Factory afterward. There's a whole host of art and performances happening and it's always fantastic fun. Click here to find out more about the event.

Myself and Cliona have teamed up to create a Home Maid Lamp using mostly stuff we bought in Homebase at the weekend. We have him sprayed blue and most of the bits made so hopefully he'll look something like the sketch I drew.

See you there if you're there!

More Brush app messing

Here's a few more brush app images made on the iPhone over the last few days while terribly bored lying on the floor with a bad back from lifting a big stupid radiator the wrong way. Still learning but I wish I knew how to get these effects with real paint. Damn you real paint. Also, damn you bad back.

New Flickr Set

I've just uploaded a new set of photos onto Flickr of a bunch of photos of my work out in the real world rather than hidden away as ones and zeros on my hard drive and tucked away in my studio. Whenever I see anything I've worked on out and about I try and get a photo for prosperity so I thought it would be nice to gather what I could find and share them on Flickr. I'll keep adding to them as I go.

Click here to have a peek