New set!!!

Here's my recent one, for the kids programme called "SING!". The first episode aired yesterday on RTE. Some of the pictures were taken from the studio's gantry, hence the gozillion lamps in the way.

Sketchbook

Here's a still life a did about 2 years after finishing high school, gozillion years ago. It was an exercise- I was to paint a rather big painting in an hour and a half.

Yay, 101 followers on my Tumblr!!! Thanks guys :-D

This looks a little mad, but I love the way it looks on the wall and lifts the whole room. I still need to work on describing the face a little bit better. 

Here's another unfinished autoportrait I was working on recently. In the end I messed it up and painted something else over it. Kinda regretting it now.. I might give it another shot some day soon.

Now imagine it being purple.... I think all those fluorescent colors confused the bejesus out of my camera and it keeps registering everything as blue. The painting is actually purple.
I'm tempted to touch up the forehead a little. (Famous last words....)

YAAAWWWNNN!!! (work in progress)

 

Just starting a new painting. I'm using Jen's picture of Col yawning painfully. This my second attemt in using acrylics, only because I forgot why I hate them so much. Well, I remeber now >:-/ On top of that I discovered fluorescent colors, so God help us all...

This was my first ever TV set :) Star Search in 2004.

Yay, I found some old pics of my first TV sets :-)))) This one is DDN Star Search done years ago. And yes, that last pic is me harassing Dustin in the green room. Who wouldn't??

An old sketch

Mad stuff I do for a living- Jedward edition

Judge me all you want, I secretely love this tattoo!
 I was asked to quickly design a template of  " I Love Jedward" tattoo for the Rumour Room and this is what I came up with. Than I had to draw it on Stephen's arm in the studio using  my black eyeliner. I wasn't 100% happy with the end result, perheaps because I had to do it in major panic just before the recording. He had it in two shows in a row, here's a link to one of them. He reveals the tattoo about 2:43 in:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKWAszZtfVc

Tv set in Aviva Stadium

This is a RTE Sport set for their studio in Aviva Stadium that I've co designed with Clyde Doyle last summer. We have put an insane amount of work into it and developed a mild milkshake addiction in the process.

At the time I was researching for a sci fy music video for friends, therefore the set has a faint Star Trek vibe.. The set can change colors so as you can see we had a brief fascination with purple.

The crap screen grabs, chair pics and the 3d drafts are done by me, the amazing photos with presenters by Clyde. Enjoy!

Somebody, please take that tiny brush away from me..
I wouldn't say this is finished but I'm leaving it as it is.

This was less painful than I expected :-)) Nearly done, I just need to take a break and come back to it in a day or two. I have a feeling I made myself look like a leper but I'm not quite sure why. Maybe it's because I didn't really know what I was doing and I kept poking the painting with a teeny tiny brush with every single color of the rainbow for hours to no end.
The pic was taken indoors and it doesn't really show the proper colors and contrast (the background color is  bright turquise for example). I'll try to take a better picture when the painting is finished.