Trompe l'oeil, Graphics and Art

Revamp

This site is currently undergoing a revamp. While many of the pages do work and more work daily, some are a bit… well you understand.

Hope it doesn’t detract too much.

Welcome

Hi folks, I’m Quentin and I have been a working artist since the early eighties. My speciality is trompe l’œil (note the use of the Œ for the correct spelling) but I undertake many different styles.

Being well used to my Mac I also design and mount websites (some of which can be seen on the pages in the menu) prepare graphics for web and print and much more. I call my self SuperSnail simply because I sign my work with a stylised “QR” which you can see above and resembles a snail. For more info about me please see the ABOUT page.

I hope you enjoy browsing my work and if you feel I can help in some way please contact me.

Thanks.

Posters

This was an A3 poster for an Arklow, Co. Wicklow band that are still going strong these days.

Produced quickly in gouache and ink.
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Furniture

Decorated furniture has been with us for centuries. Painted, carved, marquetry and lots more if you look around. Because of my trompe l’œil discipline I naturally gravitated to that side of the decoration. I have painted lots of furniture to commission over the years, and, in many ways, it’s my favourite.

On the furniture page you will see some of the examples that I managed to photograph. But this is a toilet seat with items painted on the lid. They are inexpensive and fun. Naturally the more on the seat the more it costs. With most painting and especially with trompe l’œil the money is in the details.

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Ambigrams

Ambigrams are words that can be read normally or upside down. They were brought to fame by Dan Brown’s DaVinci Code. These were created with vectors and in some cases viewing them upside down gives a different word.

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Political? Maybe.

Not too sure about the New World Order and all it’s various security agencies. I don’t do TV but when I do have the misfortune to see some it always strikes me as bizarre. It seems that there is a lot of bull being talked, to my mind. I have always seen the TV as a method of insidious programming, an electro-narcotic. All this scaremongering has lead to the birth of various agencies that are supposed to be working for us.

I have my doubts.

So here are a few political statements and parodies. Hope you like them.

Facebook?

I decided that Facebook’s profile pictures weren’t to my taste especially as they use facial recognition software. Call me paranoid but I don’t like my biometrics all over the place and included in passports and picture driver’s licenses, being clocked by CCTV. Couple that with all the GPS embedded meta data… well suffice it to say that I no longer use Facebook. I prefer to keep a slightly lower profile.

Result are these Facebook profile pictures for the wary.

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Boredom set in

So living in Spain at the moment is dire. There is no work and even when one does find something everyone wants it for nothing. The only advantage to being here is that there are no heating bills, I can see the sea, the weather is… well better than the north of Europe. Nuff said.

So my boredom lead to some vector graphics of the rapidly approaching and anticipated summer vistas.

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Websites

Website design. No I can’t build you a site like Amazon but I can undertake sites for people that want a web presence. The site featured here took some 200 hours – but then there were a lot of products to include along with the resizing and optimising of photos for the web. On the websites page you will see other examples that are considerably smaller and quicker to produce.

I also have a good friend at PlusLocal that hosts all my sites for me. His servers are wicked fast and the support is impeccable and the price? Well I like it.

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Logo design

I have to admit that I find logos hard to do – I tend to over complicate them. Never the less there are a couple with which I am happy.

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