Estuary
A little piece I’ve been working on between other themes that have taken up most of this week.
RHA Annual Exhibition 2014
Here is the scraperboard piece “Wild Wood” that was accepted in to this years RHA Annual Exhibition>>
Scraperboard Class
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…
Niamh Sharkey Laureate na nÓg and Illustrators Ireland
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:…
Old Gort a Choirce
A historical piece, done in scraperboard.
Gap in the wall
A scraperboard of Donegal
From the sketchbook
Here’s one from the sketchbook, cheap fountain pen on a moleskin sketchbook.
Donegal Weaver
Here is a recently commissioned book cover.
Low Newton
Here is a step by step of a recent commission. The image is a scraperboard of Low Newton>>, Northumbria ….. and the final piece
Flattery ?
I came across this image on the right the other day on the internet. It reminds me of my own scraperboard on the left which I did around 2007 and donated as a fund raiser for the Cill Rialaig Project>> They say “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery”, When I first saw it I…