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
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Category Archives: Painting
Christmas’ Scketchbooks
January 5, 2010 – 4:44 PM
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.
Lihn’s Sleep
December 28, 2009 – 9:05 PM
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.
Novartis Live Illustration
September 24, 2009 – 10:07 AM
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
April 20, 2009 – 9:41 AM
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 Exhibition in Scamp
August 29, 2008 – 11:29 AM
SLANT, the IGI exhibition in Ormeau Baths, Belfast is reviewed today in Scamp. Check it out. Some of the work is just amazing. Click herevar pageTracker = _gat._getTracker(“UA-5241284-1″);pageTracker._trackPageview();
Last Riot at Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast
August 3, 2008 – 9:42 AM
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 [...]
Opening Of Candy Karaoke
June 20, 2008 – 11:57 AM
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.
Ormeau Baths Exhibition
June 18, 2008 – 9:34 AM
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!
CandyKaraoke
June 2, 2008 – 6:12 PM
This is my entry for CandyKaraoke show. Basically we had to pick one of our all time favourite records and re-create it (at the same size.) I wasn’t allowed to use digital techniques so I decided to go completely traditional: canvas, water, brushes, acrilics and a lot of patience… Making a choice of record wasn’t [...]