
Over the years, I’ve spent many happy hours playing music in the snug of Hughes’s pub in Dublin. I haven’t been in for a while; a visit is long overdue. In honour of Michael.
Oils on canvas. 16″ x 12″.
Over the years, I’ve spent many happy hours playing music in the snug of Hughes’s pub in Dublin. I haven’t been in for a while; a visit is long overdue. In honour of Michael.
Oils on canvas. 16″ x 12″.
A secular icon. Queen of Hearts. Acrylics on Arches paper. 24cm x 34cm. Framed
New artwork: The Death of Reason.
Painting: Oils on stretched canvas. 16″ x 20″.
Limited edition (50), numbered and hand-signed museum-quality archival giclée prints with an edition certificate (Hahnemuhle German Etching fine art paper) available directly from me: KevinMcSherryArtist@gmail.com
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The City. Acrylics on canvas painting for le Louvre open submissions show. |
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A Brunaille: technique of making a warm, monochrome underpainting |
If you want to try out this technique of making a warm, monochrome underpainting at next week’s class, you will need the following tubes of ACRYLIC paint:
Ultramarine
Burnt Siena
Flesh Tint (Winsor & Newton) or Warm Bright Yellow (Sennelier)
Titanium White
This technique provides you with a great big safety net for you when you get to the point of adding colour by glazing -and the results can be beautifully rich and lustrous. I often use this method in my hand painted illustrations as I can get the whole work planned out in monochrome before committing to colour. In the image above, I didn’t even glaze colour and left the brunaille as it was -I thought colour would detract from this one. If you’d like me to hold a demonstration in your area, why not drop me a line at kevin@mcsherry.ie?
Brunaille: Underpainting in warm monochrome.
Grisaille: Underpainting in cool monochrome.
The upshot is, I was mostly offline for the week in France, which turned out to be a good thing as I wasn’t peering into the screen looking for signs of work projects which weren’t there anyway. I used instead, an old Nokia phone which we keep as a backup for my frequent phone mishaps. I find it amazing how I’ve been seduced by the promise of always-on connectivity. I felt bereft because I couldn’t post anything to social media. Pathetic.
So, I’ve made a decision and it’s final: I’m going straight out this afternoon to buy another smartphone.
This is my contribution to the Illustrators Guild of Ireland show at the Island Mill in Thomastown, co. Kilkenny. The show, entitled Microcosm, runs from Aug 5 to 14. You can get more details here: https://www.facebook.com/grennanmillcraft/?fref=ts
This shows the bould Sir William in the famous hurling match between Kilkenny and Tipperary in 1214. Kilkenny pipped it as they had heavier cavalry and crossbows.
Acrylics on Arches watercolour paper. A5.
Meanwhile, here’s a picture of a very handsome man with a painting superglued to his trousers.