Illustrator Adrienne Geoghegan will be working with Independent College this year to present a course all about picture book writing and illustrating. Running for twelve weeks from October to December it is divided into writing and illustrating or you can opt to do both parts. For full details read on…
It is with great pleasure that we can announce and welcome the latest members to the IllustratorsIreland.com family…Thomas Emmet and Tatyana Feeney.
Once a month we showcase the latest work created by members of the Illustrators Guild of Ireland. Each member has submitted one of their best illustrations from the previous month, either commissioned or personal. Follow the link below to see all this month’s entries.
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Last 19th July, to complement the contents of the Illustrating Illustration Exhibition a workshop/talk took place in gallery no. 72 in Kilkenny. It was undertaken by curator and IGI member Alé Mercado. The idea was to explain further the principles of the exhibition by showing some illustration work from concept to final production. (more…)
Steven Heller interviews Mark T. Smith, the official US illustrator for the Olympics ’08. Great idea. Somehow I doubt if we’ve got an ‘official’ Irish illustrator for this years Olympics but hey it’s not too late for someone to step up and be the unofficial one?
We’re hoping to get more illustrators opening up their sketchbooks to Scamp on a regular basis and Roger O’Reilly is hopefully the first of many, with these observational sketches in and around Kilkenny. Check them out…
The London College of Communications was the venue for the Association of Illustrators (AOI) Images 32 awards night and exhibition launch last Tuesday, July 29th.
The AOI offered a warm welcome to the IGI, represented on the night by Scalder and Scamp’s very own Steve Simpson, who walked away with The Gold Award in the Design and New Media category for his illustration work for gourmet pie outlet Pure Pie. (more…)
Slant, The latest exhibition by members of Illustrators Ireland opened last night in the Ormeau Baths Gallery Belfast and runs until 27th September. The theme of the exhibition asked illustrators to reinterpret a work by one of their favourite artists. We’ll be posting all the entries from the exhibition next week, but here’s PJ Lynch creating his contribution based on Vermeer’s ‘Girl with a Pearl Earring’.
