Brian Gallagher » sketches http://bdgart.com/blog illustrator Sat, 12 May 2012 07:57:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc en hourly 1 Life Drawing http://bdgart.com/blog/2012/04/life-drawing-6/ http://bdgart.com/blog/2012/04/life-drawing-6/#comments Mon, 30 Apr 2012 11:36:33 +0000 Brian http://bdgart.com/blog/?p=847

A drawing from  the RHA>> Life Room

]]> http://bdgart.com/blog/2012/04/life-drawing-6/feed/ 0 The Dublin Painting and Sketching Club Exhibition http://bdgart.com/blog/2012/04/the-dublin-painting-and-sketching-club-exhibition/ http://bdgart.com/blog/2012/04/the-dublin-painting-and-sketching-club-exhibition/#comments Thu, 12 Apr 2012 15:35:03 +0000 Brian http://bdgart.com/blog/?p=833

I’ll be showing four pieces at…..

The Dublin Painting and Sketching Club>> 134th Exhibition
Opening- Sunday 15th April 2pm-5pm

15th – 29th April 2012

Venue:

The Concourse Gallery

Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Hall

Opposite Pavilion Theatre

There is a feature about the opening on Liam Madden’s site The Irish Art Blog>>

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Up painting in Massey’s woods again a few weeks ago.

Amazing roots covered in moss on this tree.

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A Life Drawing from the last RHA>> session of the term

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Was out painting, up in Massey’s Woods.

The light was great but still a bit cold this time of year.

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A reclining figure, done in a morning at  the RHA>>

]]> http://bdgart.com/blog/2012/03/reclining/feed/ 0 Meri Seated http://bdgart.com/blog/2012/03/meri-seated/ http://bdgart.com/blog/2012/03/meri-seated/#comments Thu, 01 Mar 2012 14:59:24 +0000 Brian http://bdgart.com/blog/?p=805

Here’s another drawing, a mornings work.

]]> http://bdgart.com/blog/2012/03/meri-seated/feed/ 0 Step by Step http://bdgart.com/blog/2012/02/step-by-step/ http://bdgart.com/blog/2012/02/step-by-step/#comments Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:53:50 +0000 Brian http://bdgart.com/blog/?p=791 Here is a simple step by step of my scraperboard technique. This is the initial pencil drawing of Gort an Choirce>>

Once I’ve transferred it to a piece of black scraperboard>> I begin scraping out the white areas

More white is gradually revealed……..

Adjustments made, the piece is now finished.

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This was done for the Westend stage adaptation of Ladykillers>>
Graham Linehan>> was involved with the script….

It was commissioned as a present for the Producers of the show.

]]> http://bdgart.com/blog/2011/12/the-ladykillers/feed/ 0 Grace http://bdgart.com/blog/2011/11/grace-2/ http://bdgart.com/blog/2011/11/grace-2/#comments Fri, 18 Nov 2011 17:20:24 +0000 Brian http://bdgart.com/blog/?p=750

Another mornings work in the life room of the RHA>>

Charcoal, Pastel and Conte on Canson Mi-Teintes paper.

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