http://www.mauramcdonnell.com Freelance Web Designer, Carlow - Photoshop, Dreamweaver, xHTML, CSS, CMS, Blog, Wordpress, Drupal, Shopify Thu, 01 Jul 2010 12:41:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/art-work/visual-music-event/ http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/art-work/visual-music-event/#comments Sun, 05 Apr 2009 10:24:12 +0000 http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/?p=464 I am heading to New york to attend the Visual Music Marathon to be held in the Chelsea Visual Arts Theatre, on April 11, 2009.  This is a 12 hour non stop presentation of historical and contemporary visual music works.  This is an art area that exists between music/art/film/video/digital technology where works are created [...]]]> http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/art-work/visual-music-event/feed/ 0 http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/art-work/paintingsketch-murlough-bay-co-down/ http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/art-work/paintingsketch-murlough-bay-co-down/#comments Thu, 18 Dec 2008 13:32:52 +0000 http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/?p=408 I painted /sketched this painting a few years ago, after an amazing trip to Newcastle Co. Down, Northern Ireland. We spent a lot of time on the strand as the tide was out in Murlough Bay, this is my impression of the beautiful bay as tide was out. I took a photo, but it came [...]]]> http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/art-work/paintingsketch-murlough-bay-co-down/feed/ 0 http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/art-work/green-painting/ http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/art-work/green-painting/#comments Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:56:45 +0000 http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/?p=307  I painted this green painting last year – started off using some green emulsion that I was painting my front room with, then started to blend in some acyrilic paints – shades of white, greens, blues. I felt like I had the greens after painting this, but felt uplifted. I was trying to [...]]]> http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/art-work/green-painting/feed/ 1 http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/photographs/header-image/ http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/photographs/header-image/#comments Sat, 23 Aug 2008 13:47:08 +0000 admin http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/?p=97 The header image at the top of each page, was created by digitally manipulating a photograph of incredible flowers taken at Altamount Gardens, Tullow, Carlow. The positioning of the flowers in the header area, creates some variety as different pages are loaded into the browser.]]> http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/photographs/header-image/feed/ 5 http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/art-work/pink-paintings/ http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/art-work/pink-paintings/#comments Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:36:55 +0000 admin http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/?p=59 These pink paintings are painted on canvas with Acrylic paint. The colours of Acyrilic paint are incredibly vibrant. These paintings were painted after taking a rest from the minute concentration and detail needed to design websites!!! – letting the colours loose was what it was all about. I have my reasons for calling [...]]]> http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/art-work/pink-paintings/feed/ 1 http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/art-work/quick-sketch/ http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/art-work/quick-sketch/#comments Sat, 25 Nov 2006 14:30:44 +0000 admin http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/?p=79 After a break from drawing – ( a couple of years!). I was overcome with the desire to sketch a person. My daughter was just the subject and was happy to pose while I tried to remember how to shade again. ]]> http://www.mauramcdonnell.com/art-work/quick-sketch/feed/ 0