tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-191597242011-12-14T21:01:23.501-06:00Artwork, web projects, and updates to <a href="http://liamdaly.com/">LiamDaly.com</a>Eolaí gan Fhéilenoreply@blogger.comBlogger1801100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19159724.post-61793458734939889592010-12-11T04:17:00.002-06:002010-12-11T04:29:26.298-06:00

There is an online sale of my new paintings until the end of December. Starting with 30 pieces more paintings will be added into the sale where prices are 30%-50% reduced until the end of 2010.

Eolaí gan Fhéilenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19159724.post-907713841756406312010-10-06T19:20:00.003-05:002010-10-06T19:39:29.351-05:00

The October issue of Status Hat is themed on LANDSCAPES and I am one of 6 visual artists featured in a special showcase "Perspectives of Landscapes".The link on my name at the top of the article is faulty so you'll need to scroll down where near the bottom you can see a slideshow of 5 of my paintings together with some words about why I paint.Status Hat itself is an excellent magazine well worth

Eolaí gan Fhéilenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19159724.post-83183569168281242032010-10-06T14:49:00.006-05:002010-10-06T15:31:05.351-05:00

On Sep 24-26, 2010 I participated in the People's Art Exhibition on Stephen's Green in Dublin.Once again I used my bicycle to transport all my paintings to the Green, and enjoyed the company of the artists either side of me. Here's a couple of photos - though the event looked loveliest on the Sunday, the sunniest and warmest of the 3 days of the show, when my camera batteries failed.The number of

Eolaí gan Fhéilenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19159724.post-44099099120415863132010-06-24T16:48:00.003-05:002010-06-24T16:52:04.776-05:00

The weekend of June 25-17, 2010 - that's Friday through Sunday - I'm exhibiting some paintings in the People's Art exhibition at St. Stephen's Green in Dublin. For site details and more see the People's Art on Bicyclistic.com.

Eolaí gan Fhéilenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19159724.post-76156304173997335662010-05-06T14:56:00.003-05:002010-05-08T12:41:21.077-05:00

Recently I was on the Dublin City FM radio programme The Persuaders  in a special about blogging for business where I discussed how I sell paintings online.Listen to a podcast of the programme (mp3)There's some more background to the show on my blog and on the persuaders blog.

Eolaí gan Fhéilenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19159724.post-18890464362198193152010-04-20T04:37:00.001-05:002010-04-20T04:44:20.753-05:00

This blog is now located at http://talkingsquares.blogspot.com/. You will be automatically redirected in 30 seconds, or you may click here. For feed subscribers, please update your feed subscriptions to http://talkingsquares.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default.

Eolaí gan Fhéilenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19159724.post-42115908839758093052010-04-04T00:58:00.000-05:002010-04-24T07:18:07.192-05:00

On my Bicyclistic  blog you can watch a short (2 minute) video of photographs of me along with some quotes, all set to some really nice music by the Redneck Manifesto.The video was created by journalist Markham Nolan following a visit to the studio where he took a load of photographs and interviewed me. MArkham talks about the project here

Eolaí gan Fhéilenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19159724.post-70483727317694456412009-09-07T07:06:00.002-05:002009-09-07T07:21:16.310-05:00

My current sale of 43 Irish paintings ends today, Monday, September 7, 2009. These new paintings remain at half-price and with free shipping worldwide until 7pm Irish time (2pm in New York).To stay up to date with news of paintings sales and giveaways, follow me on twitter

Eolaí gan Fhéilenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19159724.post-39461342106700319182009-07-13T08:45:00.002-05:002009-07-13T08:51:14.951-05:00

Painting is on a go slow at the moment thanks to developing Tennis Elbow in the rush for the Rathmines Show. It got worse through May untiil finally in June I could no longer paint with my right hand at all.Currently I'm teaching myself to paint with my left hand - the drawing is going well - and through one arm or the other hope to have new paintings before too long. It's looking less and less

Eolaí gan Fhéilenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19159724.post-86002201057101195272009-04-21T17:36:00.002-05:002009-04-21T17:42:29.940-05:00

Some paintings of mine will be on display in the Swan Centre in Rathmines as part of a group art exhibition in the 2009 Rathmines Festival.The exhibition is open from noon to 7pm from Thursday, April 23 through to Sunday, April 26.If you see me there I'll be the one with the large unkempt beard.

Eolaí gan Fhéilenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19159724.post-60413227243478813192009-03-10T04:38:00.001-05:002009-03-10T04:41:11.418-05:00

The latest paintings that I've finished were exhibited at the Cork International Airport Hotel recently and are now available for purchase online.To date, 6 have sold, and another was auctioned for charity.

Eolaí gan Fhéilenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19159724.post-90471058155193390092009-03-01T20:18:00.003-06:002009-03-01T20:28:39.531-06:00

I'm currently auctioning for charity one of my paintings, Rosmuc, An Aill Bhuí, that was exhibited at the 2009 Irish Blog Awards in the Cork International Airport Hotel. The auction was started at 99 cents, but after 10 bids it's up to 117.50 euros which is still fairly cheap for a painting 24 inches long by 8. The end date and time is: March 09, 2009, 16:23:34 GMT. Details on Bicyclistic.com

Eolaí gan Fhéilenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19159724.post-4980683045855400042009-02-08T18:29:00.004-06:002009-02-08T19:10:02.342-06:00

For anyone interested in the details of the personal life of the artist, including the day to day developments of art matters, you can now find them them on Bicyclistic.I'll continue to make announcements here about this website and major news regarding paintings, but your more typical blog stuff will appear on Bicyclistic.If you're wondering who the readers of Bicyclistic   are, they are mostly

Eolaí gan Fhéilenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19159724.post-70400202881086828062008-12-21T07:21:00.003-06:002008-12-21T07:27:49.023-06:00

My big sale of Irish paintings - the one with free shipping worldwide and as much as 90% off some prices - will end on December 24.Because it's Christmas Eve and everybody has better things to do I'll end it at 6pm Irish time (noon, Kansas City time). 33 pieces have sold but there's still a fair few left (especially among the abstracts) before I end the free shipping and put the prices back up.

Eolaí gan Fhéilenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19159724.post-19962026306305218712008-11-26T08:53:00.005-06:002008-11-29T11:37:53.143-06:00

Updated: Gearing up for a big sale of paintings starting Black Friday, November 28 Cyber Monday, December 1, 2008.Free shipping worldwide is being offered, and some paintings are priced at as much as 90% less than their gallery prices.The paintings will be posted on Irish KC.The sale will probably run for about 2 weeks, maybe longer. Although there are many new pieces in this sale I'm hoping that

Eolaí gan Fhéilenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19159724.post-32307466688315679342008-11-13T01:00:00.002-06:002008-11-13T01:17:34.886-06:00

A large sale of paintings is planned for the week beginning November 24th, 2008. It probably won't be ready to go on the Monday, but I don't imagine I'll let it slip too much given that, for those who might want a painting by Christmas, the last posting date of parcels by regular post from Ireland to the US/Australia/New Zealand is December 8th.It's too early to say what those paintings will be -

Eolaí gan Fhéilenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19159724.post-43326103708211550902008-10-29T12:11:00.002-05:002008-10-29T12:23:35.083-05:00

I'm currently setting up a new studio in Dublin for painting. Most unfinished paintings, as well as frames, canvases, paints and everything else that makes up my workspace are now in place there. Just as soon as the power and plumbing is finished I'll be producing new paintings.The studio will be set up so I can receive visitors who wish to browse paintings in the flesh.News of paintings will

Eolaí gan Fhéilenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19159724.post-39424699159032838192008-10-21T09:43:00.003-05:002008-10-29T12:24:49.330-05:00

In September 2008 I moved from Dublin to a cottage in rural Ireland. The plan was to begin a new life of painting. Here are the chronicles of my life in an Irish cottage.There's also a few photos:   • Photos of the Cottage   • Photos of the Scenery by the Cottage   • Photos not all Mountains and Islands

Eolaí gan Fhéilenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19159724.post-62198675424284067202008-08-10T07:58:00.001-05:002008-08-10T08:01:20.827-05:00

Fun and games with the Kansas City Irish Fest

Eolaí gan Fhéilenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19159724.post-54565852862315622702007-03-22T18:40:00.000-05:002007-03-22T18:45:50.447-05:00

New site called American Hell has launched. Daily posting of a drawing - mostly figurative - juxtaposed with scribbled words. Single panel cartoons of a sort, focused on love, technology, animals, consumer affairs, and stuff I can't think how to label.

Eolaí gan Fhéilenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19159724.post-73231049298879185642007-03-22T18:30:00.000-05:002007-03-22T18:37:34.985-05:00

If anybody is looking for the large Blue Sky image, note that I intermittently swap it out because of bandwidth abuses. It has been restored for now, and you'll find it in this original Blue Sky post Just please, if you are intending to use it, take it, and put it wherever you put your images; don't hotlink to it on my site or when I swap it out you'll end up with a background that is not a nice

Eolaí gan Fhéilenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19159724.post-51472809141034389032007-03-01T18:12:00.000-06:002007-03-01T18:14:52.595-06:00

Talking Squares will be returning, but it will be with a new engine behind it, and it will be wearing all nice new clothes. And then we can go motoring again.

Eolaí gan Fhéilenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19159724.post-1149558101726428732006-06-05T20:40:00.000-05:002006-06-07T19:45:35.193-05:00

To remove the last piece of dependency on third party server support, Talking Squares will continue to NOT be updated for another week or so, as upgrades are implemented.Sorry about this, but we'll get along better in the long run.

Eolaí gan Fhéilenoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19159724.post-1149059534438649042006-05-31T02:05:00.000-05:002006-05-31T02:14:07.626-05:00

Things are rather hectic on the web front, but there's nothing like a deadline to move things along, so, the Free Paintings thing will happen in June.Meanwhile, if you need to call me at all, well give it a go and see what happens. Things are changing, though should you not be nice I will likely hang up. Hope you had a wonderful holiday weekend - ours was truly fabulous (until the phone rang).

Eolaí gan Fhéilenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19159724.post-1148553602618444442006-05-24T23:56:00.000-05:002006-05-25T05:40:02.630-05:00

So what happened to free paintings? They're coming. Honest. What I'm doing is organizing a major sale of my paintings with in the region of 80% off, to coincide with (or immediately follow) the free thing, while not diluting the free thing in any way.So I have to come up with the list of x paintings that are free, and y paintings that are on sale (which just might be everything else), and devise

Eolaí gan Fhéilenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19159724.post-1148388701204947172006-05-22T22:42:00.000-05:002006-05-23T07:51:41.236-05:00

Seems like I keep falling asleep mid-post, and my control panel is a graveyard of half-drafted entries. I must do better. Still, that said it was nice of you to drop by today - made this whole web conversation thing seem more like a conversation.I need to do a big photo session so I can share with you some current projects. Things are always happening you know - even if we don't talk like we used

Eolaí gan Fhéilenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19159724.post-1148123183070309752006-05-19T22:45:00.000-05:002006-05-20T06:10:27.556-05:00

Talking of squares, it should be obvious I like tiles. Too much. I can look at mosaics all day, which come to think of it isn't very long, so I can actually look at them for longer. But I can also look at just tiles for hours. Plain tiles. Little one square inch green tiles covering a bathroom, or larger black ones surrounding a bath, or glazed white ones on a porch pillar, etc.My business

Eolaí gan Fhéilenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19159724.post-1147870238459102212006-05-16T23:45:00.000-05:002006-05-17T07:54:01.183-05:00

Once I wrapped paintings up for transport from Britain to Ireland. The wrapping I used was industrial cling film, and it was coloured blue. I liked it so much I didn't unwrap the paintings for years - until I had to sell one. All through those years I decided that one day I would paint pictures with the intention of then heavily wrapping them in a coloured cling-film (saran wrap). As in, to be

Eolaí gan Fhéilenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19159724.post-1147610365433795552006-05-14T07:35:00.000-05:002006-05-14T07:39:25.433-05:00

Since you are a mother I hope your day is what you deserve all the days of the rest of the year. And I do hope it is your day.I did a card for you in my head. Again.

Eolaí gan Fhéilenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19159724.post-1147610139206671212006-05-13T19:28:00.000-05:002006-05-14T07:56:59.190-05:00

I really wanted to share how the trees are with you but when the weather finally co-operated the blossoms were all gone. Just a mass of leaf-green now. Earlier I was going to show you the explosion of white above the skirt of green, but not being able to share I've decided to wait until next year before I share all the photographs on it. I do hope that it doesn't end up being like somebody's

Eolaí gan Fhéilenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19159724.post-1147249992338089142006-05-09T22:22:00.000-05:002006-05-14T07:44:01.693-05:00

In 2001 Kansas City was one of the earlier cities to host Cow Parade, and I was selected to paint a cow. Back then, even though they started in Switzerland, it never occurred to me that the project would also end up in London and in Dublin. So I went for Celtic Kitsch and produced The Cow of KellsBut I had actually submitted two designs in my application, and the other one was my favoured one,

Eolaí gan Fhéilenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19159724.post-1146983509185897772006-05-06T23:24:00.000-05:002006-05-07T01:31:49.196-05:00

There is a recent trend of making web pages wider to suit people with screen resolutions of 1024 x 768 and up, rather than for 800 x 600 and up which was the usability norm for quite some time.Being a trend-follower rather than a setter, I've been working on designs to take account of this. I'm sorry if you're bored but this is exciting, as the extra 224 pixels creates no end of possibilities,

Eolaí gan Fhéilenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19159724.post-1146662319262758692006-05-03T08:11:00.000-05:002006-05-03T08:18:39.273-05:00

I missed my trees for a few days. Well, it was raining. I might like the rain but nobody will go with me. The Trees I drew, back when they looked like this.Yesterday it was normal sunny, blue sky, gentle breeze, yeah, yeah, but when I got to see my clump of trees, well, they've blossomed. I've been photographing them every time, and there has been little change, and yesterday I forget my camera

Eolaí gan Fhéilenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19159724.post-1146446384883496392006-04-30T20:12:00.000-05:002006-04-30T20:19:44.900-05:00

Unusually rainy for an extended period here in KC these last few days. Wonderfully grey. Walking today as the sky broke up, behind the large puffy white and grey clouds was revealed a wispy rainbow cloud. I hadn't seen one before.Thing is, again, how do you paint that? Wouldn't it just look silly because the human eye is not used to seeing them? I'll give it a miss. Hope you're keeping well.

Eolaí gan Fhéilenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19159724.post-1146385868644894982006-04-30T03:24:00.000-05:002006-04-30T20:28:15.846-05:00

Usually when people ask, I tell them I've been blogging for five or six years. And I have, in various guises, having started with Noah Grey's Greymatter. Often I regret my earlier attempts at using blogs for creative purposes rather than simply just blogging.In fact you could argue it's much longer. In the late eighties I used scissors and glue to compile a regular printed production that I would

Eolaí gan Fhéilenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19159724.post-1146144671007299622006-04-27T07:42:00.000-05:002006-04-27T08:31:11.076-05:00

Damien was wondering how the Free Books thing went, so it's probably time to put an initial reaction together. In short it's gone great, was a blast to be involved with, though a little frustrating at times as people didn't believe you were talking about real books, really for free, with no catches. Although people are rightly sceptical about anything free, that problem was probably something

Eolaí gan Fhéilenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19159724.post-1145965677054995502006-04-25T06:27:00.000-05:002006-04-25T06:47:57.533-05:00

Here it comes. Not the preview or the update to the preview, but the real Beta 2 of IE7 for Windows. Last night Microsoft made it available. Should you even mention it to clients?Wanting as many people as possible to try it now, Micorsoft are offering free phone support to encourage people who usually shy away from beta software to try IE7 Beta 2. I'm tempted, but for selfish reasons. They still

Eolaí gan Fhéilenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19159724.post-1145747140473938632006-04-22T17:57:00.000-05:002006-04-22T18:05:40.490-05:00

The art book I was involved with the project of giving away for free to 250 bloggers, Living the Artist's Life, by Paul Dorrell, was reviewed by Michael Allen's excellent Grumpy Old Bookman in England.Which reminds me that my plans to give paintings to you for free have actually advanced - honestly - but are not yet finalized. Catch ya leter.

Eolaí gan Fhéilenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19159724.post-1145429859186747002006-04-20T10:45:00.000-05:002006-04-20T10:49:10.483-05:00

What colour is the sky? The sky is blue. Not finished yet, so still a water tower in progress.What colour is the sky? The sky is red.What colour is the grass. Well, you get the hang if it.Performance problems continue with the oul' computer. Seems to be an anti-virus issue rather than a virus, but look you're bored already.

Eolaí gan Fhéilenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19159724.post-1145364117102880302006-04-18T05:39:00.000-05:002006-04-18T07:41:57.136-05:00

My computer has not been a good boy this last week, and I have yet to get to the bottom of it.There have been paintings, but image-heavy manipulation is causing stress. That's not a sentence I ever expected to write. We'll talk later today. How are you yourself?

Eolaí gan Fhéilenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19159724.post-1145226492343431852006-04-16T17:26:00.000-05:002006-04-16T17:28:12.360-05:00

-Look Daddy, a clue! Easter Grass!-Easter Grass? What's Easter Grass?And I'd only just hoovered yesterday.

Eolaí gan Fhéilenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19159724.post-1145058553979800422006-04-14T18:46:00.000-05:002006-04-14T20:14:47.403-05:00

-This is just like Moses walking across the Red Sea-Well, it's a bit shorter, we're just walking to the store; it should only take five minutes-But it's hot Daddy

Eolaí gan Fhéilenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19159724.post-1144828921006254082006-04-11T23:47:00.000-05:002006-04-12T03:02:01.086-05:00

The first four stages of four different cards. Colours came out a little bit funky. They look nicer in reality, honest. Fourth Celtic dog is not the finished version. I have quite a few more of these also on the go, all at one or other of the four stages pictured above, and none yet complete. But you already knew I don't complete things.If you ever get one of these it means I love you. Or

Eolaí gan Fhéilenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19159724.post-1144678226315670642006-04-10T09:07:00.000-05:002006-04-10T09:12:40.556-05:00

So are you getting the hang of this Feeds Thing? I mean it.I have some cards I've been working on I 'll share with you later, and I'm still working on the Free Paintings thing. Talk to ya later so. Was thinking of ya over the weekend.

Eolaí gan Fhéilenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19159724.post-1144306829025183152006-04-05T23:21:00.000-05:002006-04-12T03:10:30.416-05:00

So you came around and visited a couple of times and I hadn't posted. Well last week I posted more than a couple of times and you didn't come each time then. This requires effort from both of us.I know, you're branching out, reading other things, discovering there's a whole world of blogs that you could be reading instead. You're even commenting now, and wondering if you should do some sort of

Eolaí gan Fhéilenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19159724.post-1144073320895500192006-04-03T08:46:00.000-05:002006-04-03T09:20:01.446-05:00

Kansas is very good at some things. I once read a scientific debunking of the popular belief that Kansas was flatter than a pancake. Well actually it proved it rather than debunked it, but it all comes down to your concept of flatness. Ultimately the point was that if you scale a pancake up to the size of the state Kansas (and round these parts, some people clearly have), you'll find that Kansas

Eolaí gan Fhéilenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19159724.post-1143927906670840872006-04-01T15:37:00.000-06:002006-04-01T15:51:28.830-06:00

Remember this? Remember not believing that I was ever going to finish it, or that it was even a water tower?Well, I may never finish it, but in a measure of my continual embrace of the Plains States, it is at least a water tower.I'll keep you posted. The plan is to paint a 100 Water Towers. Say nothing else about me, but I always have plans.We should talk more often. Both of us.

Eolaí gan Fhéilenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19159724.post-1143618918638605902006-03-29T01:50:00.001-06:002006-03-29T02:01:36.350-06:00

About six weeks ago I contacted BlogCritics.org with word of the Free Books for Bloggers program for my client's book, Living the Artist's Life. BlogCritic T.Stoddart has now posted a enthusiastic review, saying the book:is a hopeful, honest, and humorous look at the life we feel drawn into. [Paul Dorrell] understands, he respects, and he supports us artists with true devotion and a full heart.

Eolaí gan Fhéilenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19159724.post-1143555197535341922006-03-28T07:54:00.000-06:002006-03-28T08:13:17.680-06:00

According to the god of Web Usability, Nielsen Ratings, the average internet user is a 41-year old woman with 2.8 children, who is devilishly attractive and well balanced. Well maybe not. I don't think devilishly as a word meets usability standards. Nonetheless, believing my readership to be the average internet user, I shall now talk to you the individual. Ideally this approach to blogging will

Eolaí gan Fhéilenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19159724.post-1143375437195850572006-03-26T03:31:00.000-06:002006-03-26T07:41:28.006-06:00

Some clients are better than others. Some client's mothers are better than other client's mothers.This is my sixth year of blogging, and in all that time I've never had a client or potential client that I haven't advised to blog. Almost all said no.I had a client five years back that wanted a Content Management System. Of course they didn't use those words, so neither did I, but that was what

Eolaí gan Fhéilenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19159724.post-1143363582459153812006-03-24T22:42:00.000-06:002006-03-28T08:18:02.843-06:00

Seven years ago today I moved here to the US. I moved here to paint. I moved here for the space to paint. But mostly I moved here to help a friend in need.Speaking of dates, my brother, being a brother, has managed to post old photographs of me for two days in a row on his blog this week. Monday was one of those round number milestones, and he posted me and my cake from my tenth birthday with

Eolaí gan Fhéilenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19159724.post-1143065135778679272006-03-22T15:53:00.001-06:002006-03-22T19:55:26.530-06:00

Red Meat. Ted asks Milkman Dan if he's seen his son. Dan responds, yes, and he's no oil paintingThis is an oil painting. Chilies in Nepal. From when I walked maybe 80 miles in the Himalaya. Distances are impossible to know there. Maps useless. Even US military maps are inaccurate. Rather busy lately. A couple of new sites in development. Almost ready to launch. Excited about the cartoon one. Even

Eolaí gan Fhéilenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19159724.post-1142927840559673062006-03-20T23:59:00.000-06:002006-03-21T02:40:13.530-06:00

Ah yes, in cahoots with nature. From last week there has been much talk and forecast of snow for today. From one to three plus one to three again, to six and eleven inches. For some arbitrary reason - and I don't care what position the moon is in (it's irrelevant) some people who blindly follow rules consider today or tomorrow, or even the next day, as the first of spring. No more idiotic a

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Okay then, let's go crazy and act like it's Christmas - just for Monday March 20th, the Liam Line is open. NOTE: Inclement weather may force uannounced closure at any time.

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I write half a dozen blogs on different platforms, and the most basic of those platforms, Blogger, seems to have had a relapse into the days before Google purchased it. Ongoing filer difficulties have rendered the service very unstable these last few months, and for me attempts at updates yesterday were unsuccessful over a period of 14 hours.Unfortunately it made published life online seem so

Eolaí gan Fhéilenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19159724.post-1142486565489121682006-03-15T23:21:00.000-06:002006-03-29T02:00:26.776-06:00

I believe the Free Books for Bloggers offer has now closed - or is about to, so if you're a blogger who wants a book, a good read, an autobiographical self-help how-to art-creativity thing, without having to review or blog about, then, well, dash over and find out (by asking, not reading). Being involved with the Living the Artist's Life   giveaway has been fun. More than that, it has me thinking

Eolaí gan Fhéilenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19159724.post-1142346450927059282006-03-14T08:11:00.000-06:002006-03-14T08:27:30.940-06:00

It all comes down to courage. It's fine seeing the bands of colour clearly, or the areas of contrast - where I especially tend to dwell on the dark side - but the painting works best with not so much what is required as with what is not required.The Burren in County Clare is, as any biologist will tell us, a very special place. That probably didn't come across in my Burren Tower painting, nor was

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Seems like I've been painting the Cliffs of Moher for ever. From Of Clare, to the first painting I titled The Cliffs of Moher right up to one of my favourite paintings the recently (very nearly) finished Cliffs of Moher IV.Well, somewhere in there I got stuck on number III. In unfinished paintings you'll see it looking all orange like this.Since then I've done much messing around and it ended up

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Since launching, the people at Edgeio have been quite busy smoothing and improving features. Quicker than I expected they've addressed the issue of including those who find tagging and pinging alien. Even though those functions are already performed automatically by many blogging platforms - if you don't know that then you might shy away from Edgeio or similar services. "Instant Add" is the

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The book I do the website for, Living the Artist's life   - that is almost finished its current promotion of Free Books for Bloggers - features in the news at the moment. Yesterday NBC ran a feature on the book's author, Paul Dorrell, outlining the background to Living the Artist's Life  , and discussing the next book, a baseball coaching book for parents called Everybody's Game .Paul Dorrell

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Apart from tea, not drinking it that is, painting squares gives me headaches. Or again more correctly it's not painting squares that does.You might have the most beautiful eyes in the world - in fact truth be told, you do - but forgive me, I like to paint squares. So I'm going to ignore your lovely eyes (because I can remember them) and look over your shoulder at the window, at the door, at the

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It was only up a couple of days, but the ink drawing of Christchurch from the Quays has been sold - and is fittingly returning home to Dublin.

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In development for some time, today I officially launched Irish KC. Shades of The People's Front of Judea, with variations on Kansas City and Irish, out there already, however there was a gap in the blogosphere I saw three years ago that I believed I could fill - and it's still there. Irish KC is bare bones at the moment, but there is much in development which will appear on the site before too

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It's early moments yet, but for the last three hours I've been publishing the files for the new Leopold Gallery website. About 7.5% of you will struggle with your screens being too small for a couple of pages - apologies but you'll be an even smaller percentage next year. Similarly a few of you will have so large a resolution that things might not sit ideally for you - but we should be able to

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All the clocks say 2 o'clock. I don't know which way is West. Everything's gone green.Rather than getting lost flying in the Bermuda Triangle, these wonderfully desperate words could more likely have been uttered by drunks stumbling around Kansas City's midtown on Paddy's Day.In advance of a new website, WJ McBride's Irish Pub & Restaurant, over there to the west by Cabella's and the Racetrack

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If you've ever tried to call me, well God Bless You, but you probably found out I can be quite difficult to get hold of. To make life easier (for who?) I've been on Skype for a few weeks now - and just didn't get around to telling you. Anyway, if you're on Skype too then you know already what to do. And I'm exactly who you think I am. Just be sure that I likely want to communicate with you first

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Christchurch Cathedral as seen from the Quays. Ink drawing on paper. For sale. Comes matted with a 5 x 7 inch window to fit in a 8x10 inch frame. $29 plus $4 shipping within US, or $9 shipping elsewhere. Visa and Mastercard will work. I wish Stephenson had been let finish his Civic Offices. No I didn't like them much when they went up either but in fairness he was only let do half a job. The

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Three pictures of the same scene created on the same day from the same spot. None of the three are intended to stand alone. Instead, each picture is intentionally part of the series necessary to produce the final painting, with shapes, tones, colours, all conveyed by a shorthand notation.It's the rendering of the spruce and aspen that is the main challenge of this yet-to-be-painted painting. A

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Ah the old Ceci n'est pas une pipe   argument, you say. No, I say. Obviously it's a picture, not a real living three-dimensional duck in your bedroom or office. But it's not a picture of a duck. Or a pipe. It is a scan of a drawing of a sculpture of, well that's all I know. I was going to say a sculpture of a duck, but maybe the sculpture was based on, say a duck decoy for hunting, itself

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In time this will become natural and organic where when I announce the completion of a painting, I'll tag it for edgeio to pick up and list over there also. But for now, as Henry Kelly might say, we're playing catch-up. Dotted among the last week's posts are three new posts: they are of those small paintings for sale at $25. I've added the Ram, the Cat, and the Panda, to the original Zebra. Note

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Living the Artist's Life   and author Paul Dorrell have been making some appearances in various blogs lately, so I created a page on livingtheartistslife.com to highlight some of the more interesting posts found around the blogosphere. Just a beginning - greater plans are, well, planned.

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Capel Street is one of my favourite streets in Dublin. When I would take visitors there on my walking tours they would ask me why I brought them to a street with a load of phones and tools. Seeing that as a good enough reason to visit any street I never answered.Capel Street Bridge, as it tends to be known - which seems a little unfair on Parliament Street - is so unlike the rest of Dublin's

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Listing Art Painting Cat Animal Celtic ACEO For Sale Until June 16, 2006 At $25Painting of Cat in acrylics with inks. Influenced by Celtic art of Illuminated Manuscripts. Comes mounted safely on archival matting board. Two and a half inches by three and a half, approx. ACEO size. Shipping and handling is $4 within US, and not too much more for shipping to elsewhere. Credit Cards (Visa and

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The anticipated extension of the Free Books for Bloggers offer, to bloggers beyond the U.S. has been announced. Damien in Ireland and Des in Australia, among others might be pleased with this update. Living the Artist's Life   is written by Paul Dorrell.

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The latest in the series of ink drawings of Irish towns beginning with 'B', Bandon is more like Bantry than Ballina - which means as a painting it should end up more like Killarney than Kinsale. Fitting, don't you think, that I should be drawing the Gateway to West Cork whilst living in the Gateway to the West of America (Kansas City). Don't be fooled by that Arch nonsense over in St Louis on the

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Listing Art Painting Ram Animal Celtic ACEO For Sale Until June 16, 2006 At $25Painting of Ram in acrylics with inks. Influenced by Celtic art of Illuminated Manuscripts. Comes mounted safely on archival matting board. Two and a half inches by three and a half, approx. Fractionally longer than ACEO. Shipping and handling is $4 within US, and not too much more for shipping to elsewhere. Credit

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If it's your birthday, and it isn't your birthday, then you're pretty special. Here's a picture of a Panda.

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Back to Mayo then, and so soon after Westport.I did a painting of Ballina last year, though I was never really happy with the right hand side, and will probably repaint it. You'll notice this ink sketch of Ballina is from the far side of the bridge.In Ballina I watched The National That Never Was, and later went for a Chinese. Back then I was suspicious of how we would cater to our own

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Hey look! I've added an animated badge from Flickr, those nice photo people, off to the right competing with Scott Mack's eye-catching portrait. It's just a selection of ten paintings that you can see elsewhere on this site if you root around. Now if you can't see it, or other things on the site are all askew, well chances are that you are on a Mac using Internet Explorer 5. You really shouldn't

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Listing Art Painting Panda Animal Celtic ACEO For Sale Until June 16, 2006 At $25Painting of a Panda in acrylics. Influenced by Celtic art of Illuminated Manuscripts. Comes mounted safely on archival matting board. Two and a half inches by three and a half, approx. ACEO size. Shipping and handling is $4 within US, and not too much more for shipping to elsewhere. Credit Cards (Visa and Mastercard)

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Just before yesterday's surprising blue sky was covered by a purple cloud blanket speckled with pink, I got to see three contrails in the sky at the same time. Nothing unusual in that here in the middle of the country, but the three puffy electric yellow lines formed an equilateral triangle. Now how on earth am I supposed to paint that? More to the point if I do, who's going to believe me? And if

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Tags:Listing Painting Zebra Animal Celtic ACEO For Sale Until June 16, 2006 At $25This is a post to list a painting for sale on edgeio for the first time. The painting in question is a tiny one, just two and half inches by three and a half, and is also listed on Yessy Gallery for sale with a whole series of animal paintings.This series of paintings came out of a love for Celtic illuminated

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The ink drawings tour of Irish towns on matting board moves east. We've just done Tralee, and before that Bantry and Westport. I was in Wexford most recently in August of last year. Prior to that I hadn't been since 1993 when I went on a steam train. That was a stupendous trip that took forever yet was over too quick.There'll be a couple more of these sketches to share with you before I start

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From midnight tonight the commercial potential of the internet reaches right out to its very edges. Keith Teare's and Michael Arrington's much anticipated Edgeio promises to change the way of the web, even if it fails. By empowering bloggers and harnessing big business Edgeio brings a technology that, if not turning web commerce upside down, completely decentralizes it.For me for example, it

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The third of the ink sketches on matting board - after Westport and Bantry - is this one of Tralee in County Kerry.I like the straight-on view of streetscapes, as you might tell from 7 buildings, 4 Stories, and the more recent Listowel paintings, and would like to do much more - but getting a narrow Irish street clear of pedestrians for you to sketch is tricky. I could always go at 6 in the

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The team I'm on won TriviaRiot last night, a pub quiz structured so geeks shouldn't dominate. Questions are directed at teams in a round-robin fashion, nicely shaking things up with luck. Also, as the quiz progresses the points go up (and the pints go down!). This has the effect of each round of questions rendering the previous round almost meaningless. And then there's a final big question where

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Not too long ago Amazon introduced tags, wikis, and authors' blogs. A few days ago, one Leonidas38 created a wiki for Living the Artist's Life  - Wet Canvas members will recognize Leonidas38 as the username of one Verne Gripes - the name behind the blog that is supposedly a tribute to LTAL - Wet Canvas DreamsThe wiki on Amazon is for customer-editable product information and not reviews - there

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Another ink drawing on matting board like yesterday's Westport, though this time with the lines a bit looser, more sketchy. Ultimately this should end up in the style of Killarney - which is still for sale incidentally ;) These matting boards are grey-blue, and textured, which is why they look kinda dirty. Bantry gets bigger when you click it, so it does.

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The FREE Books for Bloggers giveaway continues apace. Art Biz Coach Alyson Stanfield, author of the very popular Art Biz Blog, and provider and organizer of the wonderful free resource that is the art marketing community called Art Biz Connection, has passed on the information about the "Living the Artist's Life" giveaway of 250 books just for being a blogger. And her readers have applied and are

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Studying in what was then called NIHE, I had a lecturer in Public Administration who regularly railed against CIE. He didn't believe the train service from Dublin to Westport should exist: -I mean has anybody here ever even been on the train to Westport?From a class of 75, I alone raised a hand. Thus single-handedly I was responsible for saving public transport, and keeping the tourist industry

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As an artist, watching your child spontaneously pick up a pen and create a great birthday card, is a fabulous thing to behold. As a parent, it's even better.Quinn drew a great card last weekend - that I won't show you here because the birthday hasn't occurred yet - but I had nothing appropriately special in my supply of envelopes. So I made one for him. Follow along and you can make one too:1.

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The exit-door wouldn't open, and the enter-door wouldn't close. Several degrees below freezing, this meant it was cold inside Aldi this morning. In winter in Kansas City, buildings and buses are heated so much I take off a lot of clothes when I enter. It means I'm the only one on the bus in a t-shirt, sitting among hatted, scarved, gloved people, padded up in coats that stay buttoned. My son

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The program for Hillstead Publishing of giving complimentary books to Bloggers, with no catches, is going well. Michael Allen of the excellent literary blog, Grumpy Old Bookman, today wrote on the project, noting how unusual it is for an established book to be given freely in its physical form, and to bloggers also. In the comments, Lynne W Scanlon, of The Publishing Contrarian seemed to

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This latest despatch from the land of sugar and salt has me preparing to make the rather wholesome lunch of banana pancake stacks. For this I needed the pan last seen in Cast Iron Art #1Naturally I can't just squirt washing-up liquid onto a surface and wash it, and neither should you. In the latest example of continuous-line, or contour, drawing, I lived on the edge by using a quite fast-pouring

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Sometimes there's a lot of similarity between these twin careers of art and the Internet. Three years or so ago I did the best interview for a job I've ever done, and in attempting to warn me about the job, my prospective employer stressed its lack of glamour. In reply, I stressed that he was talking to somebody who, for a hobby, literally watched paint dry.This is just a snippet of an unfinished

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Hillstead Publishing has announced they are giving away, to those who blog, 250 FREE copies of Paul Dorrell's Living the Artist's Life   (of which I designed the website).There are no strings: no sponsor requirements, no reviews necessary, no shipping even - you just need to be a blogger, any kind of blogger, and you are not required to blog about the book. You can read the announcement on Free

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I never really counted poodles as dogs. You may think it's because I was once outwitted by a Bichon Frise who repeatedly urinated on me whilst doing a handstand (well what do you call it when a dog stands on its front legs only? ) - but no, the Bichon who humiliated me in that dog-sitting episode was a real dog. And not a poodle.Yesterday I saw a man with a large white poodle, only because it was

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The 21-step Tip for St. Valentine's Day that I advocated is still up there at #2 on the Top 100 Most Mailed list on Squidoo. Meanwhile the brother went sneaking around England and implemented it there for Herself. Only he did it without cynicism. And just where is the good in that?

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Perhaps I'm behind the times, but developing an application on Ning I came across a Chinese site which is hypnotic if you happen to like drawing or writing without ever putting the pencil down. Some of the difficulty people have in reading my handwriting stems from dotting my i's without removing pen from paper. You might well point out that is an abuse of the word 'dotting'.Etch-a-Sketch by

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