The other monday

So a quick line on updates as is usual for the monday in between Scrawls. Hmmmm...

Oh yeah, okay. So there are two *great* art blogs that I think you guys might get a kick out of. I've been reading these guys for an age, but there's no better time to jump aboard.

Leif Peng runs this great blog which is called Today's Inspiration his routes, wanderings and explorations of the last centuries' most talented illustrators are such a fantastic and inspiring read.

Stapleton Kearns, whom you can email with technical questions for his ongoing "Ask Stape" feature where he runs through technical questions, as well as theory and development of colour/light/paint/materials/setup etc, also runs a great blog, here. He recently started a feature called 100 paintings an artist should know, which starts with this link. As he discusses later, it's not totally subjective, but there is always a question mark over what paintings etc. to include in these "lists", but he's making a good case for the ones he's run so far.

Also, he included one of my favourite pictures of the English Rococo - George Romney's Lady Hamilton as Circe, with some background included. It only matches Paul Jamin's, Le Brenn et sa part de butin as pictures that came up during college, were critically panned, but I kind of liked them. :)

If you wander over to my sister's blog and comment in her most recent post, you can be in with a chance to win some crafty goodness!

And for your entertainment needs, try Battlepug! and Ratfist. Webcomic goodness.

Ciao!

Galway Pub Scrawl #34 - Masters of the Universe

So before I hit into the Pub Scrawl updates, I just want to say that Sidebar Nation, whom I was boosting last week, posted an interview with Jaime Hernandez today and you really, really, really should go and download it. You can find it here. Jaime is one of the finest living cartoonists on the planet and the Sidebar guys are *great* interviewers. I haven't had a chance to listen to the download yet, but I'm confident it'll be good. :D

There are copies of the NUIG Art Society's magazine for Muscailt about the city, which features art from the members of Pub Scrawl as well as an awful lot more, but I haven't gotten my hands on a copy yet. It's called Lunatic Fringe! Keep an eye out for more coverage of it both here and around the University and Galway more generally.

The NUIG Comic Book Society has a day long comic & zine festival on this wednesday, almost the whole day in the Aras na MacLeinn. Definitely worth calling in on, you can find details here!

And now, the art! We went with the theme of "Airships" and I like what happened.... forgot my damn camera though, so I had to use my damn cellphone camera. It's meant to be 8 megapixels, but it always comes out with shit photos... oh well.

So, what was I going to say this week? I don't know. Those of us who went to WarpCon had fun at WarpCon. Don't forget the next Pub Scrawl is next monday the 07th of February.

Two things worth noticing is that the Galway City Museum is host to the... let's see if I get this right... First International Biennial Print Exhibition from the 4th of February. It's on for a month and there's some fantastic works on display, so go down and check it out.

I can't recommend this podcast enough - Sidebar Nation - they bill themselves as having the most art-literate talk on comics. art and pop-culture around, and they're not wrong. These guys know their stuff and do their research. The questions asked and the style of interviewing work so well. I went back recently and listened to every single episode and it was so worth it.

Anyhoo, see y'all next monday for the Pub Scrawl!

A quiet night at the Pub Scrawl! Not that there's anything wrong with quiet! Our sojourn into the upstairs of McSwiggans was mixed. We'll have to continue to experiment with locale.

Anyhoo, what you're really here for -

Did up a flier for handing out at things. Thought I'ld stick it up. It was a 5 minute job, but it'll work.

Another odd monday, another (odd) post. Let's see, let's see...

Dr. Sketchy's Dublin is definitely signed up for a Cork trip! Don't rule out an appearance in Galway yet, but if you want a definite non-Dublin appearance, mark your calenders for the Cork weekend!

The NUIG Art Soc is getting a magazine/brochure ready for the Muscailt week which is to be peeked at - there may be some great Pub Scrawl art featured!

Something else art related was buzzing around inside my head, but I think it fell out since. I'll just throw out a few links instead:

Check out Emma's blog - she's a really good friend of mine, an insanely great fine artist and Pub Scrawl happens in the same room as one of her prints. ;)

And speaking of insanely great artists, check out Ballpoint Heaven!

Be in McSwiggans next monday for the Puuuuuuuuuuuuuuub Scraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawl!

Tonights Pub Scrawl was fantastiche!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Reaching out to the university crowds, had a lot of visitors, it was great. Make sure to check out the links for NUIG Art Soc & NUIG Comic Soc in the side bar (when I've added the Comic Soc) - blah. Argh. Check out these bad boys: