Grainne Quinlan Artwork

Travel Thumbnails - Winter/Spring

2012-01-08T10:58:00.000-08:00

I wanted to do something with the photos of my year away and, inspired by James Gurney's descriptions of his watercolour travel thumbnails, thought it might be a good idea to choose a few photos from each place and go through my travels chronologically. I also thought it would be a good colour exercise in watercolours. Here are the first set - winter to spring in Vancouver, BC.

Design - The Planets

2011-05-16T13:23:00.000-07:00

Mars, Venus, Earth and Neptune. Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop.
Copyright Monster Animation & Design

Life Drawing

2011-05-15T08:58:00.000-07:00

Santa's Apprentice BGs

2010-11-11T08:22:00.000-08:00

Painted in Photoshop. Line artist unknown.

Copyright Gaumont/Avril Stark Ent/Cartoon Saloon.

Illustrations

2010-10-29T14:08:00.000-07:00

Line and Digital paint.

Birds, birds, birds...

2010-07-06T13:42:00.000-07:00

Pen on paper.

Birds & Bigotes

2010-06-20T07:45:00.000-07:00

Sketchbook. Pencil and biro.

IF - Trail

2010-06-10T09:06:00.001-07:00

On the trail of the White Whale, and let nothing distract from that task. Actually, it won't take a genius to figure out that this was actually started for last week's theme 'Slither', but I didn't get it finished in time. Still, 'manners maketh man', and the theme maketh the picture, so to speak.

Pen and digital paint.

Paperman Bgs

2010-06-03T01:39:00.000-07:00

Backgrounds from Richard Kelly's up-and-coming short, Paperman. Premiering in the Galway Film Fleadh in July.
Copyright Prickly Pear Productions

IF - Early

2010-05-27T04:16:00.000-07:00

About as early as it gets, I think. Preparatory studies for an illustration. Chalk pastel with digital bg.

IF - Equipment

2010-05-19T06:09:00.000-07:00

Aka "The British Naturalist, c.1865"

Pen and digital paint.

IF - Fearless

2010-05-12T13:13:00.001-07:00

Inspired by "The Tale of Despereaux" by Kate DiCamillo. A beautifully written book which, apart from anything else, had me craving soup.
Pen and digital paint.

Conceptual

2009-04-26T09:18:00.000-07:00

Have been working on a few ideas from the book Suttree, by Cormac McCarthy. My imagination was spurred by a few of the colourful characters in the book. This one is the Goatman.

Ballybraddan

2008-12-26T03:50:00.000-08:00

Ballybraddan is a kids tv series made for RTE by Monster Animation and Design, who have very kindly let me put up some images before the show is aired at the end of February.

Copyright Monster Animation & Design

Digital Paint

2008-09-22T05:06:00.001-07:00

CABEL CAR

BONSAI

This was inspired by the bonsai tree my brother bought for his girlfriend last Christmas and which, despite careful nurturing, died a few weeks later. Fortunately, they seem to be having better luck with the baby that arrived in February...

TUDOR STREET BG
from rough to finished.

Illustrator and Photoshop

Paint

2008-09-07T11:31:00.001-07:00

Strange and unusual plants at the Botanical Gardens. Watercolour.

Sketchbook

2008-07-07T10:29:00.000-07:00

A trip to the park, on a rare sunny day.

My parents' dog. He's pretty smart. He can open and close doors and play dead, although he still wags his tail.

From the one successful trip to the zoo so far this summer, before the rains descended.

In times of biblical downpours, head for the National Gallery and draw. These kids seem to have had the same idea.

A figure from one of my favourite paintings in the gallery.

Same room, different painting.

Clock tower in Annecy, France. Beautiful town, amazing old buildings. This is a view from the Cafe Des Belles Artes, very popular with Festival goers.

More Annecy, by the river.

Pencil on paper

Illustrations

2008-07-07T09:54:00.000-07:00

Way back last year I did a series of illustrations to go with a theme for the Boulder art blog. Here are three of them.

Colour Work

2008-07-06T12:26:00.000-07:00

Saw the BBC Planet Earth episode where one tribe of chimps attacks another tribe and kills and eats some of them. Thought it deserved a more dramatic treatment, so I came up with this progression.

I was asked to do some skies and seas for a project and here are some examples of what I came up with. Had fun with these.

Colour work for an inhouse project at Boulder.

Illustrator and Photoshop

Slacker Cats

2008-07-06T08:45:00.000-07:00

Did some BGs for the Slacker Cats pilot. I think you can see it on Youtube.

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Adobe Illustrator. Copyright ABC.

El Tigre Backgrounds

2008-07-06T08:08:00.000-07:00

El Tigre was a fast-paced little cartoon set in a fictional city in Mexico. As well as some snappy dialogue, it also had a lot of explosions and spontaneous demolition. For example, a nice doorway scene...

...and there goes the wall.

Illustrator and Photoshop. Copyright Nickleodeon.

Intro

2008-07-06T07:08:00.000-07:00

Well, here it is, my very first post on my very first blog. Might change the name at a later date if I think of something slightly more original but in the meantime, the priority being showing pretty pictures, I'll get uploading.