I recently taught a two hour class on Scraperboard technique at Swan Art>> We all worked up a piece from print outs of a sketch I had done. The idea being to get the students to become familiar with the different tones and various marks and cross hatches available through this medium. They all did…
My work will be exhibited as part of a group show at The illustration Cupboard Gallery from tomorrow,please come along to the opening or drop in if you can during it’s run. The illustration Cupboard 22 Bury St, London SW1Y 6AL www.illustrationcupboard.com Niamh Sharkey Laureate na nÓg and Illustrators Ireland 16 April to 10 May 2014 Evening reception:…
Six stages of my Offset piece, from the pencil rough drawing to finished scraperboard
This is my image of Designer Neville Brody>> that was done for this year’s Offset>> It was part of a collaboration between Illustrators Ireland >> and Offset. The images were on display Bord Gas Energy Theatre’s>> lobby
I really enjoyed rendering the stone work on this scraperboard
A historical piece, done in scraperboard.
Here is a recently commissioned book cover.
Here is a step by step of a recent commission. The image is a scraperboard of Low Newton>>, Northumbria ….. and the final piece
My take on the Old Magnesia Well-Bogs Field- Scraperboard