Dirty Laundry, originally uploaded by Alé Mercado. Piece for Laundry Show. South Studios, Dublin 70 of Ireland’s top illustrators, designers and photographers air their dirty laundry in public. Expect secret vices, misdeeds and shamefaced confessions galore. One night only. Brought to you by the Illustrators Guild of Ireland, Offset and Heineken. This is the piece [...]
Miller, originally uploaded by Alé Mercado. These are other two examples of what I am lately doing with gouache: very limited palettes and flat colours. Hope you like it
It has been great to take some time off these last two weeks. Still there has been a good bit of drawing while watching films. Here is a bit of a selection for you. Hope you like it.
The second week of December I finished a private commission based in a drawing from a sketchbook I did in October. This is the final piece beautifully framed. Hope you like it. Click on the image to see a larger version of it.
I was called by OMT Group to help them in an event they were doing within the Annual Conference NOVARTIS was having in Wicklow. The idea was to visually condense all the ideas people attending the conference would come up with in a creativity exercise which was coordinated by Paula Clarke. It consisted in representing [...]
Kila’s Portrait Originally uploaded by Alé Mercado Portrait for Kila’s third birthday.It is done in acrylics on canvas. I get really nervous when I have to use real brushes! (no undo function, you see?)
SLANT, the IGI exhibition in Ormeau Baths, Belfast is reviewed today in Scamp. Check it out. Some of the work is just amazing. Click here
DSCF1679, originally uploaded by Alé Mercado. Last Thursday 31st July I attended the opening of three exhibitions in the Ormeau Baths Gallery in Belfast: AES+F’s Last Riot, The Association of Illustrators’s Images 31 and IGI’s Slant where I took part (see previous post in June.)The gallery has a few amazing spaces and the works displayed [...]
Candy Karaoke opened yesterday in the Munster Truck Gallery in Francis Street, Dublin. It is an amazing exhibition. 70 creatives reinterpreting their favourite record covers. Some fantastic concepts.It’s going to be up for two weeks so I really recommend you try and see it. Go to http://www.flickr.com/photos/candyculture/ for some photos of the opening night.
This is the piece I’ve produced for Ormeau Baths exhibition which will be happening in July (?)The idea was that we had to re-interpret famous paintings. I chose Munch’s The Scream.There you go!