Alé Mercado in Ballyfermot, originally uploaded by Alé Mercado. I’ve been kindly invited to give a talk on my experience as an illustrator in Ballyfermot College next Tuesday 16th March. I was asked to send an image to promote it but I really wanted to create something new… So that is what you are looking [...]
THE MARKET is happening this Saturday 5th December 2009 in the Arts Office Kilkenny County Council. The idea is to offer people affordable art from some really exciting artists. It is a good alternative to the typical market this time of the year as I don’t think you’ll be able to get anything christmassy at [...]
Now that the Rhyme Rag is with the printers, I am going to show you through the process of creating one of the images. At first I would scribble lots of ideas on paper, a bit like doing a brainstorming. Once I am happy with some of them, I start developing some aspects of them… [...]
Last Saturday 19th July I did a workshop/talk as a complement to the Illustrating Illustration exhibition. I showed a few projects from beginning to end. The idea was to emphasize the principles of the exhibition and to give an insight into how projects are approached. The event was promoted though the Artlinks! network and the [...]