AMELIA

This will probably be my last blog post of the year and I reckoned what better subject than the little person responsible for turning our world upside down and for being the source of so much amusement and utter joy for the last 5 and a half months...........
Thanks a million to everyone who visited my blog in 2009 and for all of your comments too!!
Happy Christmas to one and all!

GOOD NEWS!

Recently, I submitted three sketches into an art exhibition that was organised by some students at Trinity College. The exhibition pieces, submitted by staff and students at Trinity College, comprised of works ranging from photography, sculpture, painting and the odd sketch or two!
Anyway, turns out that the Curator of the Trinity College Art Collection liked my sketches so much, she bought them as permanent additions to the collection to be lent out to various College departments and Schools across Trinity College.
Just thought I'd share that little bit o' news! I'm pretty chuffed to be honest!

LIVE WORK

Had a busy weekend with three gigs in two days, two in BT on Grafton St and another with Niall O'Loughlin in the exotics of Moate on Saturday night.
Here's a selection of photos........

PRINCE

Thought I'd keep up the pencil work for now and do another sketch. Underneath is a quick render in Photoshop minus the body which I have a few ideas for.

IRISH WRITERS

Here's a collection of sketches of some of Ireland's most famous authors and playwrights, George Bernard Shaw, James Joyce, Brendan Behan and Samuel Beckett.
These sketches were all done in pencil and took about an hour each.

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

Can't say I'm too familiar with his works of literature but I thought I'd give this fellow a try.
It still needs a bit of fine tuning which should bring me nicely into the year 2047.

ISCA Convention 2009

I'll have pictures of my work from the Con when I get back home to San Diego. Right now I'm in my hometown of Buffalo, NY to visit my family until November 23rd.

Be back bloggin' soon!

YOURS TRULY

Yet another attempt at my big fat ugly mug. Think I'm getting closer to an actual likeness but it's still not 100%. Could it be that I'm simply too good looking? It's possible.

CHRIS WAHL

This is a very quick and extremely rough sketch of the insanely talented artist Chris Wahl. Chris is one of my favorite illustrators around today and his seemingly endless range of styles is purely inspirational.

ROBBIE COLTRANE

MICHAEL PALIN

Found myself with the luxury of a spare half hour the other day so decided to catch up on a bit o' sketching.
Michael Palin is another in a long list of my comedy heroes. He's responsible for writing some of the funniest sketches in the Monty Python series and his post-Python work has been hilarious.
If you're a fan and you live in Dublin, he'll be signing copies of the second part of his published diaries on the 7th November in The Dublin Book Shop.

LA Fair 2009

This was my second year doing the LA Fair. Had a pretty fun time, it was more like a vacation, I just got to hang out by the pool at the hotel before my shift, and party with the other workers afterwards.

Actual work was extremely slow the first two days, but picked up Fri, Sat, Sun. However I ony managed to get a few pics of ones that I liked, the crowd was cheap and kind of hard to please.
Me, Bird Dwyer(Zoo), John Baldwin(Knotts Berry Farm), and Kim Morton(Worlds of Fun)

Bird

Francesca Nunez

I finally did it.

RECENT LIVE WORK

Here's a small selection from a couple of recent weddings I've been working at.....
As always, thanks to Niall O'Loughlin!

Manny Hernandez

This was my goodbye sketch for Manny. If you havent already seen his blog or any of his art check him out HERE. He's leaving the Beast Head crew to go to school at Cal Arts.
Wish you the best of luck, Manny! You'l be back

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-bomderr

U2

Here's a couple more U2 pieces that I'm currently striving to get finished.
At the beginning of 1990, after 10 years of gradual world domination, Bono declared that U2 would be 'going away to dream it all up again'. Quite how they were planning to do this was unclear but when they returned at the tail end of 1991 with the beast that is 'Achtung Baby' (in my opinion, their best album and one of the best albums of all time), it was evident that he really meant what he said almost two years earlier.
The transformation the band went through was immeasurable and what followed was without doubt, the most exciting period of U2's career to date.
On the release of the first single 'The Fly', Bono's suggestion that it was 'the sound of four men chopping down the Joshua Tree' couldn't have been more accurate.
Not sure which of these two I prefer most.

Promotion Post

Hey, whats up. Meet your new Assistant Manager at Sea World San Diego..its ME. And here is some of my work from the past two weeks. Now GET TO WORK!

Yes, I had a reference. And yes, it took forever!