Beginners Creative Textile Course - 1 day

Hi everyone,

Hope you`re all enjoying this fine weather! Just to let you know or you can pass on the info..

I`m planning on doing a one day workshop in the basics of FELTMAKING, STITCHING, EMBROIDERY & BEADING.

We will experiment together to make sample textiles and can them use them for

BROOCHMAKING & CARDMAKING.

The course will run in Spiddal, Co. Galway overlooking Connemara landscape with a view of the sea on the 19th of June from 11am until 4.30pm

All materials will be provided.

Free Tea & Coffee

Toilet Access & Wheelchair Access.



Adult €50   Under 16 or Unemployed 40€

Email - shimineid@hotmail.com for more information or Phone Sinéad on 087 995 2637

Thanks x

ILLUSTRATION BOOT CAMP NO 6

ILLUSTRATION BOOT CAMP no 6! PICTURE BOOK CAMP No. 6
Illustrators Ireland member Adrienne Geoghegan continues with her sell-out courses ILLUSTRATION BOOT CAMP and PICTURE BOOK CAMP again on 3^{RD AND 4TH} May 2011. As before, this illustration book camp for is for ALL visual artists, and picture book camp will appeal to aspiring children's writers and picture book artists.
DATES & TIMES:
Illustration Boot Camp - Every Tuesday evening 6.30pm to 9pm from May 3^rd
Picture Book Camp - Every Wednesday evening 6.30pm to 9pm from May 4thVENUE: The Garden Art Room, Carmelite Centre, 56 Aungier Street, Dublin 2CONTACT: Adrienne 016776032, or 087 991921
email adriennegeoghegan@gmail.com
FULL SYLLABUS FOR BOTH COURSES:
www.adriennegeoghegan.com

Botanic gardens meet up

Palm leaf zoom a photo by Esther Moliné on Flickr.

Hi everybody! Here's a shot I took at the Botanic Gardens in Dublin last July, applying the zoom trick while taking a longish exposure shot of a palm tree leaf in one of the glasshouses. If you'd like to come to a meet up there this Saturday the 2nd of April I will be there with some flickr photographers from 11 to 11.30 at the area near the Visitor Centre, between the Alpine House (to the left of the centre) and the Palm House, around where the sundial is. If the time doesn't suit and you'd like to come later write a comment here and I'll email you my mobile number so you can find us, we should be there for a long time! Even if you're not interested in photography I thought it would be a nice opportunity to meet, and people might be inspired by the surroundings to sketch, write, etc. We could afterwards post the results here! Hope to see you there!
Esther

Water ink

"Today, it is estimated that 3.6 million people, including 1.5 million children under the age of 5, die every year of diseases borne by unhealthy water, making it the world’s leading cause of death.

To mark World Water Day, on March 22nd Solidarités International and its agency BDDP Unlimited will roll out a campaign to build awareness of the scourge of undrinkable water."

Storytelling and Live Illustration at Talbot Gallery

Hello all, this is my first post on this blog.

Kevin Bohan, Killian Dunne and myself will be illustrating live while the storytellers of Story O tell their amazing stories. This is something we haven't done before, so it promises to be fun. More info at Events On The Corner.

Between Bears by Eran Hilleli

This is a lovely simple animation, the colour & lighting really add to the flat vector look.

70 Million by Hold Your Horses ! (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO)

Jack Teagle Dublin Exhibition

Website

Draw with Don

If, like me, you spent half your childhood glued to Network 2 (or RTE 2 as it's now referred to), you will not want to miss Thursday night in the Bernard Shaw. Don. Bleeding. Conroy. Fran, Michelle, Liam and myself will be there. Let's make a Tinderbox night of it.

Foggy Dublin

Foggy Dublin a photo by Esther Moliné on Flickr.

Very happy that for St Patricks day the people from Redbubble chose this photograph of the Ha'Penny bridge for the homepage!

Here is my photo in Redbubble

Happy St Patrick's Day everybody!

1920's Mugshots from Australia

LINK

Cliché ! version française

Botanic Gardens get together?

Botanic Gardens a photo by Esther Moliné on Flickr.

Hi everybody. I'm trying to get together a group of people from the sites I'm involved with (flickr, photography ireland, redbubble, tinderbox) for a visit to the Botanic Gardens in Dublin on Saturday the 2nd of April, at 11. I took this photograph there last year, a bit later in the season, May. Would you be interested in coming along? It would be a nice chance to see each other. Also, people who aren't into photography could produce a sketch, a painting, a poem, or whatever they're inspired to do while there. We could post the results here. What do you think?

Knicker art

Knickers galore
Originally uploaded by Esther Moliné

Well, this photograph of mine seems to have been a great success on Flickr so I thought I'd share it with you all. It's a shop front in Madrid, where I was last weekend for a school reunion

Robin Schwartz - Primate Portraits

 Primate Portraits

Where Children Sleep

Fantastic series of child portraits.

3 Blank Canvas competition

Three.ie are running a competition for Irish illustrators, designers & artists to submit pieces based on themes of Freedom, Flexibility & Speed. The winner gets €2000 and an iPhone4 and there's also 3 runners up prizes of €500, plus all the winning entries may be used in future advertising campaigns or wallpapers. Bren B is one of the judges, which should set the standard pretty high.
Closing date is the 28th March and you can find out more about the brief & how to submit entries here.

The Lost Thing

I hadn't watched any of the Oscar coverage but just noticed that "The Lost Thing" won best animated short based on the book by Shaun Tan. Passion Pictures did a remarkable job of translating Tan's layered, textural artwork & fantastical creatures to the screen. You can watch the whole thing here.

Calvin Nicholls Paper Sculptures

Calvin Nicholls does ridiculously detailed paper sculptures. I can't even imagine where to begin doing one of these, it makes my brain explode!

You can see more here and here.

Postcards to Alphaville

" "Postcards to Alphaville" is a project dedicated to film characters featured in guest-made illustrations. Everyone participating in this adventure has to watch a film and make postcard portraying specific character from it. It is love-letter to films and those characters that brings us, the viewers, moments of joy, sorrow and revelation and sometimes seems more real than the neighbor next-door "

Maybe you guys wanta try, I want to do one for Walter Matthau in The Taking of Pelham 123, as Lt. Zachary Garber. (NOT THE REMAKE) I think maybe its his face, he has a great one.

The Backwater Gospel

London Calling all Tinderboxers

Hi everyone,

Long have us Londoners regarded your great events with envious eyes, so for a while now we have been thinking how we can represent Tinderbox in London?

I’m having a first meeting with a cool coffee shop with the possibility of us exhibiting some work there. http://www.departmentofcoffee.co.uk/

This being a bit of a chicken and egg situation, in that we have yet to secure the venue, I still feel we need to think about what we will exhibit. Will it be a free for all with our best work or do we go with a unified brief and totally new work? Both have their advantages and disadvantages.

So I ask all tinderboxers who are interested, especially the London and UK based, to get in touch as it is a great chance to put some faces to names and to take this opportunity to get involved, where geography may have stopped us before. I know some of you were interested in the post Michael put up in November about doing a London exhibition, so this is a chance for everyone (Ireland/UK/France/Europe/everywhere) to get involved.

Help, feedback and words of wisdom are all welcome, this is an initial shout out but please watch this space.

National Print Museum

Went to an open day in the National Print Museum in Beggars Bush last weekend where they demonstrated various old printing presses & printing techniques.

I got them to do the letters of Tinderbox on the Linotype hot metal press, which was really interesting to watch all the intricate workings of it and amazingly fast as it takes a cast of a row of individual letters and injects molten metal into it to form the line of type, all in about 20 seconds!

Anyway, here's some photos of it for a possible new banner, take your pic!

Good day all!
Heres my blog updated with a Follow button. Thanks
Sinéad
http://folksong-designs.blogspot.com/

Steve Lambert

Steve Lambert will talk to anyone...

"I set up this table near other individuals and organizations tabling for political, religious and other causes. When people approach I offer to talk to them about whatever they would like. If they don’t know what they want to talk about I keep a list of questions such as:
- how about this weather?
- what have you been up to lately?
- what are you doing after this?
- how are things?
This formula has lead to conversations with all kinds of strangers on topics from the weather to the Iranian revolution, Native American philosophy, agricultuture, film, etc."

The Saga of Bjorn

To exhibit and to show the book

To exhibit and to show the book

"The experiences are numerous. Why and how to show the book? How to represent a book in a book? How to exhibit? Lots of research and questioning that led up to these projects corpus and exhibition.
The book, containing  & content, shouldn’t be exposed as a “dead object”, in a glass box. This object is alive! Turn the pages, observe the binding details, study the graphic design… All these are required to apprehend the object but also its content and the context of the whole process.
Even in a digital and virtual context, the idea of representing and exhibiting a book still makes sense: these initiatives are the proof.
Dispossessed by multimedia from its domination in the transfer and protection of information and knowledge, and in its status of a space for artistic expression, we specially intend to demonstrate our commitment to the affirmation of the autonomy of a book which we always believed existed.
The aim of Open Books is to collect and highlight some initiatives which open our minds and our reflection. We ask ourselves questions, and here are some answers."

New Illustration

A few days in the field, watching the storks, cold and then snow. A warm blanket, a few papers, pencils and glue ... and much happiness at what I do.

Many Stuff

Site/blog based on art and design.
Its a nice simple site with some really interesting articles.
Enjoy: www.manystuff.org

Of Music which evokes images (Allegro Non Troppo - animation)

Allegro Non Troppo - animation

This is a fragment of an animated film made by Bruno Bozzetto in 1976 to illustrate 6 musical pieces. Valse triste by Sibelius in this fragment, there are 5 other episodes on youtube.