tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19653380429105255512024-03-19T01:05:49.595-07:00Nolan's Memory PalaceMichael Nolanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04613003711517332316noreply@blogger.comBlogger188125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1965338042910525551.post-13856343201125965592015-06-06T07:06:00.001-07:002015-06-06T07:06:38.575-07:00TattooingSo, I recently started a tattoo apprenticeship, I have been trying for years to get one and finally wore someone down :)<br />
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I have been in the shop in Mallow, Cork called Arti Tattoo for about 3 weeks now and have two tattoos done. I mostly deal with customers and learn bits and pieces here and there, tis good fun.<br />
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The first tattoo was the Batman logo from the later series of Batman the animated series <br />
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All in all its a death defying experience to mark someone for life, but its a great feeling once you get started and get into it. Look forward to many more pics :D <br />
Michael Nolanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04613003711517332316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1965338042910525551.post-79343057345614818552015-05-04T17:56:00.000-07:002015-05-04T17:56:19.423-07:00RoseA new warm-up painting and process vid for the giggle<br />
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Michael Nolanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04613003711517332316noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1965338042910525551.post-83352788901945009652015-04-10T05:16:00.000-07:002015-04-10T05:16:40.408-07:00Process VidI started messing about with recording my morning warm up sessions, so here is one of them for your viewing pleasure!<br />
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<br />Michael Nolanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04613003711517332316noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1965338042910525551.post-13228315842169511292015-04-05T17:28:00.000-07:002015-04-05T17:28:00.982-07:00Morning Warm-upsLately, in an attempt to improve my digital/painting technique, mostly in regard to tone I have been doing half hour to hour long paintings in the morning.<br />
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I add these, almost daily on instagram, feel free to have a glance <a href="https://instagram.com/nolanthecelt/" target="_blank">here </a><br />
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A quick painting of a house in a field in watercolour for the themed week over at <a href="http://islanderart.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Islander Art</a>. I thought I would mess about with the camera while I was at it. Michael Nolanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04613003711517332316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1965338042910525551.post-70271355239898020482015-02-27T15:55:00.000-08:002015-02-27T15:55:22.540-08:00Another Master<div style="text-align: center;">
In continuation to my last post of martial arts masters, here is the latest piece. By the way, anyone interested in a print of this piece or any previous or future ones can visit <a href="http://www.martialmasterprints.com/" target="_blank">HERE!</a></div>
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<br />Michael Nolanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04613003711517332316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1965338042910525551.post-87432653921691105522015-02-11T12:31:00.000-08:002015-02-11T12:31:28.651-08:00Martial MastersWorking on a series of tonal portraits of martial arts masters from the ages.<br />
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First the extremely great internal master Bruce Frantzis<br />
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Second the man the brought Ip Man back to life Donnie Yen<br />
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There are many more to come and they will all eventually be for sale as prints. When that is happening I am sure I will make a post about it :)<br />
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<br />Michael Nolanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04613003711517332316noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1965338042910525551.post-76853114158839590512015-02-05T04:26:00.000-08:002015-02-05T04:26:34.065-08:00YodaI finished Jedi (Grand Master of the Force and not a midichlorian in sight) Yoda<br />
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The original is for sale here : <a href="http://www.ebay.ie/itm/111590442756" target="_blank">ebay</a><br />
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Painted with black acrylic and white gouache over black and white prismacolor pencil on stone grey stock<br />
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<br />Michael Nolanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04613003711517332316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1965338042910525551.post-15654937925817672552015-01-28T08:36:00.000-08:002015-01-28T08:36:46.170-08:00The airbrush is my ally and a powerful ally it is! Some recent works I have done. I started watching and listening to the Vlogs of Jeff Lafferty as I was working and got all inspired to do some traditional stuff again just for myself as most of the work I have done in the last year has been commissions and all digital at that. Jeff is a fantastic artist, go check him out <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/LaffertySketchCards" target="_blank">here.</a><br />
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Terminator inspired, if you have any interest in the process of how I made it you can go <a href="http://on.be.net/1ylrSMq" target="_blank">here.</a></div>
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Michael Nolanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04613003711517332316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1965338042910525551.post-73039015109494874372014-12-31T19:06:00.001-08:002014-12-31T19:06:46.007-08:00Some sketches from 2014 Remember 2014? Seems like a long time ago now.<br />
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Here are some sketches I did during the long long ago, before the poccylips (if you get that reference we can be friends)<br />
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Michael Nolanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04613003711517332316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1965338042910525551.post-76234283857895738992014-10-30T12:18:00.000-07:002014-10-30T12:18:37.373-07:00Recent sketchesHello all and sundry, how are your faces? Well I hope.<br />
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As the title totally gives it away, here are some sketches from ye olde sketchbook.<br />
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I have been mostly rocking the old blue animation pencil, I seem to like it more now than I did back in college<br />
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<br />Michael Nolanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04613003711517332316noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1965338042910525551.post-40795493488959037492014-10-11T07:15:00.001-07:002014-10-11T07:15:27.972-07:00Jack is even more back... againWell those cheery chaps that hired me to create illustrations of Jack asked me to do two more because the first ones worked out so well<br />
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The second one they asked for is a repaint of an old book cover<br />
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They liked the first ones so much they sent me a t shirt for free, what nice guys they are<br />
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<br />Michael Nolanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04613003711517332316noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1965338042910525551.post-30994080637970627172014-07-30T06:41:00.001-07:002014-07-30T06:41:34.813-07:00Jack is back<div class="text-center">
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as a kid reading 2000AD and staring at all the gross details in the
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Michael Nolanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04613003711517332316noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1965338042910525551.post-74125905454874160242014-07-23T13:35:00.000-07:002014-07-23T13:35:54.722-07:00Tigger the Tiger It's been a while since I posted anything so here is a quick watercolour and gouache Tigger<br />
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<br />Michael Nolanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04613003711517332316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1965338042910525551.post-56121525064840397602014-05-05T17:08:00.000-07:002014-05-05T17:08:37.843-07:00Self portrait I painted a self portrait to enter the Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year competition.<br />
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As is my want I started off with a sort of practice sketch paint<br />
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I was not a fan of it, the proportions are wrong and the beard is way to yellow, but I did like the effect of light around me, like a shifting aura.<br />
But I continued<br />
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Everyone that see's it tells me I look grumpy, but I always look grumpy and that isn't how it felt to me at all, ah well, can't please everyone I suppose.<br />
Here is reference of my eternally grumpy face<br />
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<br />Michael Nolanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04613003711517332316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1965338042910525551.post-66952811235997748742014-04-09T16:40:00.000-07:002014-04-09T16:40:20.533-07:00My BluebellBeena my love as a Celtic Queen, she loves Magpies (two for joy) and bluebells.<br />
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<br />Michael Nolanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04613003711517332316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1965338042910525551.post-55421027021535660562014-04-05T20:08:00.001-07:002014-04-05T20:08:31.809-07:00Viking mit CrowsGerman for no reason.<br />
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Sketch<br />
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Michael Nolanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04613003711517332316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1965338042910525551.post-87633740655783031062014-03-29T08:28:00.000-07:002014-03-29T08:28:41.064-07:00A portrait of Mistress Beena I draw Beena a lot, usually she is reading and fidgets a lot which makes it very difficult, but every now and then she does something that requires her to sit still, like sewing!<br />
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But even easier is to just use a photo, which I did, this one<br />
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So I sketched it onto a piece of canvas (a step I forgot to record) and painted over it with some burnt umber acrylic, the burnt umber went a lovely grey when it mixed with the graphite from the sketch, but what harm<br />
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I then set about the joyful task of getting the oils out and in the space of about 2... maybe 3... possibly 4 hours, I dunno, I was totally in the zone, this was the result<br />
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This was one of those paintings that just worked for me, there are a couple small things I will alter later on, but they don't even bother me that much to be honest which is a rarity in and of itself... maybe I should do this for a living.Michael Nolanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04613003711517332316noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1965338042910525551.post-58416450551263147792014-02-24T08:53:00.002-08:002014-02-24T08:53:56.838-08:00Zombies<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A couple of groovy zombies painted in oils for funsies.<br />
I sketched them in with a pencil that put a quick wash of acrylic burnt umber before using the oils.Michael Nolanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04613003711517332316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1965338042910525551.post-8504915468119537112014-02-05T06:13:00.000-08:002014-02-24T08:55:22.839-08:00Pet PortraitsI have a new website *CHEER APPLAUSE* <a href="http://picturefixer.ie/" target="_blank">picture fixer pet portraits</a><br />
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It is dedicated to creating pet portraits, it isn't exactly a huge market, but I just love drawing animals, so if you or someone you know has a pet they love and would like a framed picture of them, head on over<br />
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<br />Michael Nolanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04613003711517332316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1965338042910525551.post-3272707712443217602014-01-12T05:45:00.000-08:002014-01-12T05:45:06.612-08:00The Practical PotioneerA digital painting of Severus "Snivellus" Snape from the Harry Potter books.<br />
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The sketch from a corner of a page<br />
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I liked the half hearted sneer I was getting as I worked the face, but
this was more about me hammering digital paint into submission and
trying to make it do something new for me rather than showing the
character, but it would be nice if I got both. Either way, I like the
whole thing, although I don't like snape himself.<br />
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Michael Nolanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04613003711517332316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1965338042910525551.post-37448408970905879972014-01-07T03:40:00.000-08:002014-01-07T03:40:30.160-08:00Black Night PagesHello all, I hope you're all loving the new year.<br />
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Here are the first two pages I have done for the next <a href="http://islanderart.blogspot.ie/" target="_blank">Islander Art</a>
Magazine comic type thing, since it's titled Black Night, I went for a scary story.<br />
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The story itself is an old campfire story, I just padded it out a bit. <br />
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I tried using the Loomis method of skewed perspective and jagged shapes to create an unsettled feeling throughout.<br />
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I also added a layer of noise over the inks to help it match the font I
chose as well as make it a bit more rustic and remove the clean finish
of digital inks.Michael Nolanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04613003711517332316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1965338042910525551.post-51125208186253358162013-10-03T10:53:00.001-07:002013-10-03T10:53:56.279-07:00DiscworldDiscworld fan art, because, lets face it, its the best series ever written<br />
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Tiffany Aching with some Feegles, Magrat Garlick, Nanny Ogg with Greebo and Granny Weatherwax<br />
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Nanny and Granny chilling out while Greebo kills things<br />
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I have this feeling if Beena ever joined the watch she would become Judge Dredd of Ankh Morpork<br />
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The Feegles take Roland to the underworld to save the Summer Lady as it happens in WintersmithMichael Nolanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04613003711517332316noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1965338042910525551.post-1758023809394005382013-08-03T08:20:00.001-07:002013-08-03T08:20:42.460-07:00Definitely finished this timeOK, so after some feedback from the client I have made a few alterations to the portrait. I took the red out of the cheeks and lip, and made the lip a little less fat too. The badge on the guys cap had to be totally redone also as he had been promoted since the picture I was given for reference was taken but nobody told me :) such is life, I actually much prefer it now, I think it looked a little cartoonish with the rosy cheeks but I was going to the reference, I have since been told it was a very cold day the day the picture was taken, hence the redness. But it's all good now. The colour in the picture doesn't match the actual painting but I'm not much at photographing my work.<br />
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<br />Michael Nolanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04613003711517332316noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1965338042910525551.post-51428844231257995362013-07-27T08:17:00.000-07:002013-07-27T08:17:07.868-07:00Finished portraitThought I would post the finished portrait of that guy from the navy I was posting the process of last time.<br />
I'm not happy with it really, but I never am.<br />
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