Brian Gallagher » drawing http://bdgart.com/blog illustrator Sat, 12 May 2012 07:57:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc en hourly 1 Old and New http://bdgart.com/blog/2012/05/old-and-new-2/ http://bdgart.com/blog/2012/05/old-and-new-2/#comments Sat, 12 May 2012 07:57:54 +0000 Brian http://bdgart.com/blog/?p=851

A recent scraperboard>> of some buildings in Harolds Cross, Dublin.

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A drawing from  the RHA>> Life Room

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A scraperboard of Malham Dale>> North Yorkshire

]]> http://bdgart.com/blog/2012/04/malham/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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A Life Drawing from the last RHA>> session of the term

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

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Here’s another drawing, a mornings work.

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Here’s another drawing from the life room of the RHA>>

A mornings work.

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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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To start 2012 here’s a recent book cover I did.

It’s one of a series of Legal books I worked on just before Christmas.

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