Admin Monday 17 JUN 2013 #goddamnititstuesdayagain

Another bunch of stuff from your friendly local Pub Scrawl! By the time the next one of these are due out, it'll be time for our annual 31 Day Drawing Challenge - so be ready for that on the first of July!

Updates:

Myself, Jay and Patrick went wandering about the Burren with the Sceitse gang - There's some photographs around and some amount of Art was done (but not much cos it was very wet all day) which I'll have to try and round up to show you guys when I have a chance. :)

Update: I found some of those photographs

Nico made this sweet GPS promotional video:



Give him feedback over on youtube!

Jay is doing an awesome project of his own - 100 heads in 100 days - go check his blog out, immediately.

Links:

Long time friend and sometime Scrawler James Newell had some Art featured over on the Quaequam Blog

- I want to see more of that!

Today's Inspiration had a great post on Stan Galli. The other cool thing is they linked to where you can get an ebook of his "Solving Visual Problems: An Artist's Life" for free!

The ARC Art Renewal Centre has their 2013 ARC Salon winners up here - beautiful art over there.

You can - and should - buy a download version of the Jeffrey Catherine Jones documentary now. An amazing Artist who led quite a life - I'm really looking forward to seeing it.

I was saying over on our Facebook group that the Art blogs are great during the Summer because their output goes up and definitely give us more and more great links day in, day out. I came across this awesome one about colour, colour theory and sociology summarising the Berlin/Kay study - I'm making it sound boring again, but it isn't.

And Printeresting have been running an amazing series of articles on various MFA shows that have caught their eyes called All These Theses - I thought this one was particularly awesome from Sang Eun Lee!

That's it you guys! Come back in a week for another Pub Scrawl Art blast - Pub Scrawl #89: Dr Who you looking at? - and in two weeks time for our 31 Day Drawing Challenge 2013!

Galway Pub Scrawl #88 - Already one cultural reference behind....

Sorry about the terrible photos tonight - there seems to be an unwritten rule when I work before Pub Scrawl - I will forget my camera. :( Maybe it's just I'll be predictably tired and a bit confused. Anyway, all were taken on the smartphone rather than with a decent camera, so they ain't great. No group shot either, which makes me sad.

LOTS of Superman tonight, cos that was the theme over at our friends in the Irish Sketch Society.

Terrible photo of Ger's awesome piece - he thought I said Man *IN* Steel...


Yolande is working on in the craft corner - Helen was in too but ran away before I pulled the camera out!


Jay continues his awesome Wind in the Willows project!


And now - Supermans!

Mine -


Chuck's


Dermo's -


Nico's -


Oisin's -


and Mary's -


And Patrick was remote scrawling from Worcester - here's The Queen mixed with Queen, apparently. :)



Awesome! Come check back in a week for more updates and in two weeks time for another exciting Galway Pub Scrawl!!!!!!!!!!!

Admin Monday 3rd JUNE 2013

(Or Tuesday the 4th... y'know, whatever)

Updates

Some of us are motivated and ready to go on the Sceitse trip to the Burren! Get in touch or join their group on Facebook for more details.

From what I hear, the first night of Laydeez do Comics went well! Maybe we'll hear some more from Maura about it (or the next one - scheduled for September, I believe) soon.

Links

Patrick found this invaluable tutorial -



or this tutorial invaluable?

Drawn! is gone. :( RIP. Here is a heart-felt farewell from it's founder.

I love the Art, Illustrations and Animations on display on Emmanuelle Walker's webpage.

There's a new book and teaching resource out for those who don't like drawing from reference. :)

ImagineFX were running a vote for "Best Artist" and "Best Cover" for their 100th issue, coming up soon... When the page was working it was a cool visual of all the Art they've lauded over the last 8 years or thereabouts. I don't think there's anything there now though. :( Keep an eye out for the 100th issue.

Our correspondent from the other side of the planet (although I believe she's working her way back as we speak), Ruth C, linked us to these awesome WWII illustrations by Weston Emmart.

And the Rijksmuseum are letting everyone download high res pictures of their collection - for free! (You do have to make an account, and if you are doing it for commercial reasons, you still owe them. Fair warning!)

And to wrap up this week, we'll leave you with this image by Patrick. Now you can't un-see it either. See you next week!

Galway Pub Scrawl #87 - Is it the teeth that makes it creepy?

Another night of Art & fun in the pub! Before I go on to post photos (and apologise for my various failings on this one), Scrawler Linda McNamara is selling some Art goodies if anyone is interested, including -

A wacom intuos 4 (small) which is on ebay with a reserve of €80
Exotique 3 (Ballistic publishing) €10
D'artiste Digital Painting 2 (Ballistic publishing) €10
The Marvel Art of Marko Djurdjevic (Marvel) €10
There's possibly a copy of Painter 11 going for 20 €uropes if she can deregister the license key.
Also, a load of Imagine FX's (lots of subscriber copies), have CD's for most of them. €2 a pop.

Pop over to her blog or drop her a line ( linda dot d dot boonstra [at] gmail ) if you're in the neighbourhood and any of these strike your fancy.

Anyhow, on to the Art! Our theme for the evening was "Skytrain" because Yolande and Patrick were dementedly going on about it. Here's your photos -

Here's our creative types, coming up with new Male appearance enhancement products (Balltox - patent pending)


Alan was drawing various animals


Jay was giving a sneak preview of a Wind in the Willows idea he has going on - they look awesome!


And Katie drew this sheep! All the wool detail almost did her wrist in, but she still had strength do draw a...


SKYTRAIN!


SKYTRAIN! (Dermo version)


SKYTRAIN! (Mary version)


SKYTRAIN! (Aoife's version!)


SKYTRAIN! (My version)


SKYTRAIN! (Patrick version)


That's it for Balltox (patent pending) and SKYTRAINs! Join us next week on the blog for another round of updates and links and in two weeks time in McSwiggans for another epic Galway Pub Scrawl #88 - Already one cultural reference behind!

Admin Monday 20th MAY 2013

A round of links & updates from your friendly neighbourhood Pub Scrawl! As always, you can find where we discuss these links and other such stuff on the Galway Pub Scrawl Facebook Page!

Updates:

Helen is helping to run the Galway Fringe Festival pop-up shop. In her words:

"Galway Fringe festival is doing an art pop-up shop for the Visual Art sector of the festival. Every artist will be given a stall in the Factory, in the upstairs open air garden, and there's a selling limit of 50 euro per item. I figure that's a great way for artists to produce lots of work and sell them cheaply, and it's a selling strategy that would really suit sketchers NUDGE. It will take place for a weekend during the Galway Arts Festival. As of yet undetermined."

We'll have more details as time approaches. :)

Ciaran wants you to like his page on Facebook - his venture, CreoDrone, will do 3-D printing for you at a low cost. Contact him if you need some 3-D printing done in the Galway area (or anywhere, I'm sure).

Also, Irene wants you to like her crochet page, Owls and Rainbows.

Links:

Patrick was messing about with Sculptris... it seems quite cool -



There was a cool competition to win a DIY Print Shop that lets you screenprint at home. But the competition was only open to America... aw boo. But if the idea of a DIY Screen Print kit floats your boat, here's the link.

There was a great quotation going around about the top end of the contemporary Art market -

"The circle of collectors and dealers is so small and so awash in cash that the process can seem to an outsider a bit like a rigged game, in which a bad deal can be considerably more valuable than a good one. If you buy a giant balloon toy for $30 million, you may have spent a few million more than you had to or even expected to; but you’ve set the value of that work and also elevated the value of all of the balloon toys in your collection. Which is especially good, since there aren’t very many people who can afford to spend $30 million on a giant balloon toy, and those who can tend to take pleasure in cornering a market."

Very enlightening!

There's even more cool videos up on Draw Mix Paint - go check it out!



Kevin Earl Taylor mixes Realism, Surrealism and Animals in these cool paintings....

Eva posted a nice time lapse tutorial over on Islander Art -



That's a lot of linkage, but it's a good reminder to keep an eye on Islander Art first and foremost!

Frieze New York 2013 was on the last few weeks. "Contemporary" Art isn't normally a focus for Pub Scrawl, but some stuff was good this year. You can check out some here, here and here and elsewhere on the net...

And Robert Longo is still working - which I like a lot.



That's it, that's all you guys. Come back next week for Galway Pub Scrawl #87 - Is it the teeth that that makes it creepy?

Galway Pub Scrawl #86 - You never know which one will go viral...

WOW! That was a busy Pub Scrawl! Loads of fun had by all. :) I have work in the morning, so I'll just post this Art here and I'll update the page tomorrow when I have a chance. Great sketches this week, AND some new Pub Scrawlers! Exciting times.

See these - packed tables! That's what we like to see.


A lot of us were tackling the Teenage Mutant Hero/Ninja Turtles because it's this week's theme on Irish Sketch Society -

Brian Naughton:


Me:


Katie Creaven:


Patrick Gavin:


Dermot Canniffe (twice!)




Chucky:


Mary Lillis:


And some were content to just work away on their own themes, like George -


Helen was working on logos


Ger's guy had less armour than usual. :)


Jay was painting - keep an eye on his blog this weekend for the final version.



And new sketchers! Awesome. :)




What a great night! Thanks to all the Scawlers! Come on back next week for another round of links & updates and in two weeks for more Art from Galway Pub Scrawl #87 - Is it the teeth that makes it creepy?

Admin Monday 06th MAY 2013

Updates:

Our friends over at the Irish Sketch Society are still running their weekly sketch challenges! Mary was encouraging us to join in two weeks ago, we dabbled in the last one at last week's Pub Scrawl, and you should go over there now and join in the fun.

Jay is working for a project you can support on Kickstarter - Adventures Dark & Deep!



Alanna linked to a job opportunity if you know anything about UI Web Development.

Yolande pointed out that the Galway Theatre Festival is looking for a Festival Image 2013.

Also, there is a new event starting in Dublin - Laydeez Do Comics - Maura McHugh is going and wants any other Galwegians or others interested to come check it out.

Links:

There was a great post on Muddy Colors from Adam Rex about how he makes picture books that Mary linked to.

I was blown away by these short painting videos from Marc Dalessio.



The final images for Microvisions 2013 went up! Very cool.



Printeresting ran a cool photo essay on hand-printed posters.

Elliot Alfredius designs characters straight out of a Studio Ghibli film! They're awesome.

Mary was impressed by this:


and so were the rest of us! It's all in support of the Breast Cancer Foundation.

That's it for our round-up of links and updates! Check back in a week for the photos from our next Pub Scrawl - #86 - You never know which one is going to go viral.