Maureen O'Brien

Scarf Greeting Card

2011-11-26T17:01:00.001-05:00

I just finished printing my new greeting card design last night! It is screen printed by hand with metallic silver & navy ink. The scarf illustration wraps around the back of the card.

Available on my Etsy Shop

Happy Holidays Card

2011-11-13T22:39:00.001-05:00

Yesterday morning I was running around getting last minute supplies to screen print Christmas cards that I designed! I finally got everything I needed after a couple trips here and there. I recently ordered some metallic silver ink that I've been anxious to try out and I love it! The silver ink looks amazing in person.

Check them out on my Etsy Shop!

2011-10-22T22:04:00.002-04:00

Progress on my vine painting.

Pattern

2011-10-19T23:34:00.000-04:00

A new pattern I created tonight.

New Painting

2011-08-14T19:19:00.000-04:00

I just started a new oil painting yesterday. This vine is creating a cozy little porch. Year after year it grows twice as big.

New Tees

2011-07-10T19:04:00.000-04:00

Matt and I have been screen printing shirts the past few days with much success!

Portrait

2010-10-09T10:39:00.001-04:00

I recently finished this portrait of Matthew and Cricket.

Oil
22" x 30"

Walnut

2010-09-10T22:02:00.001-04:00

This has already happened, but this is the box I painted for the Detroit Artists Market's That DAM Box Show 2.

refresh

2010-06-16T22:13:00.001-04:00

Fabric

2009-06-29T21:09:00.001-04:00

hand-printed and dyed
100% cotton

MOCAD

2009-03-18T23:34:00.000-04:00

This Friday at MOCAD
One Night

10 sets of mannequin legs have been decorated by 10 artists for the shoe company Zuzatz for the launch of their new line of interchangeable flip-flops. Each set of legs has a different theme to show the different places the shoes can be worn.

Below are pictures of the legs I painted.
I chose the forest for my theme to showcase the snakeskin uppers.

Flyers for the event

Bookmaking

2009-02-23T20:45:00.000-05:00

Books that I've made:

Book 01: Photo Book
All photographs, design, and binding done by me.

Book 02: Souls of Black Folk (W.E.B. DuBois)
Copy by W.E.B. DuBois
Book design and binding by me

Book 03: Plant Cells
Copy taken from "The Molecular Biology of Plant Cells"
Edited by H. Smith
Book design, illustration, hand-drawn text, binding and assembly by me
(I need to take better photos of this one for sure)

Feb. Art Shows!

2009-01-28T10:41:00.000-05:00

Upcoming shows in February 2009!
DON'T MISS OUT

GROUP HUG
Garment District
A Valentine's Show
Sunday, Feb. 08, 2009
12:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Location: Garment District
28063 Gratiot Ave
Roseville, MI
Artists include: Carl Lundgren, Jeff Nolan, Lee Devito, Maureen O'Brien, Ebeneezer Archer Kling III, Kyle Young, Larry Larson, Gary Grimshaw, and Gwen Joy

THURSDAY VIEW
555 Gallery
Maureen O'Brien and Jeff Nolan Art Show Opening
First Floor Gallery
Thursday, Feb. 12, 2009
7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
[Gallery Hours: thursdays 7-10pm and saturdays 12-6pm]
Location: 4884 Grand River Ave
Detroit, MI 48202

RESTRICTIONS
The Lollybot Collective
Saturday, Feb. 28, 2009
9:00 pm - 2:00 am Sun.
Location: Izzy's Raw Art Galery
2572 Michigan Ave
Detroit, MI 48202
Lollybot Collective

facebook

2009-01-04T10:12:00.001-05:00

become a fan of my facebook fan page! Click on the link below to navigate to the page and click "become a fan."

Maureen O'Brien Illustration and Design

poster - clean up

2008-12-08T01:42:00.000-05:00

poster i'm working on for vis com II
18" x 24"

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ok i think this is the final.

more fiber

2008-12-05T23:34:00.000-05:00

fiber screen printing
thiox discharge + pigment + hand painted

fiber collage

2008-11-21T00:18:00.000-05:00

i screen printed on cotton fabric and silk organza and then made a collage using some hand sewing and fabric adhesive, stretched on canvas stretchers.

final maps

2008-11-18T08:21:00.000-05:00

fiber

2008-11-16T12:41:00.000-05:00

discharge

screeeeeeeen printing

2008-11-08T13:55:00.000-05:00

these are kind of terrible pictures but you get the idea.
my latest screen print.
22" x 30"
i have one more screen to do but it won't be very noticeable in a pic anyway because it's going to be just gloss circles on the white background.

map_making

2008-11-05T18:58:00.001-05:00

working on a map for vis com II
24" x 36"
2 sided

sketches

2008-10-16T14:09:00.001-04:00

more to be done with these
but here's a start

prints prints

2008-09-26T17:46:00.000-04:00

quick update

2008-09-21T12:39:00.000-04:00

some projects since school started

define

2008-09-03T12:26:00.000-04:00

please help me with a project

what is your definition of the following words?

hate:

love:

include, exclude, expand upon, or go on a tangent from any of the five senses. be simple, complex, subjective, or objective. anything goes.

leave your definitions as a comment (you may be anonymous as i will not be using any names) or if you'd rather email it to me you may contact me here:

smaureenie at gmail dot com

please respond by sunday september 7, midnight.
thank you to all who reply!

: : posters

2008-07-22T11:28:00.000-04:00

gd

2008-07-10T00:04:00.000-04:00

summmmmmmer : : intro to vis com l

The Orphan Works Bill

2008-05-08T20:03:00.000-04:00

I just wrote to Congress strongly opposing this bill and I encourage all of you to do so as well! It's so easy and takes two minutes to defend your work.

Take a look at this link on youtube

and then go to THIS WEBSITE to send the easiest letter and currently most important letter in your life before it is passed!

Erykah Badu

2008-04-18T16:32:00.000-04:00

Work from my portrait of Erykah Badu.
Actual size is 24" x 36"

Twins

2008-03-28T20:22:00.000-04:00

An update on my piece about mirror image twins.

Mirror Image

2008-03-22T15:28:00.000-04:00

Sketch for my next piece about mirror image twins.
25% of the world's identical twins are also mirror image twins, when the fertilized egg splits late (around 9-12 days). The twins have the same DNA but have small mirror image differences such as opposite cowlicks (swirl in the opposite direction), opposite side birth marks, mirror finger prints, mirror dental problems, and they are sometimes opposite handed. What I found the most interesting is that in some instances, one twin may be right brain while the other is left brain, which is what I based my illustration on. In theory, they are mirror image twins with opposite personalities.

Not fit to rule

2008-03-16T05:21:00.000-04:00

Inspired by the truism "Most people are not fit to rule themselves."
I wanted the word monarch to represent both a king/ruler and the monarch butterfly.
Before the butterfly, the larvae feed on milkweed.

Actual size 5" x 7"

Mini

2008-03-15T06:28:00.000-04:00

Started this a few hours ago.
Actual size is 5" x 7"

Painting Update

2008-03-14T02:07:00.000-04:00

I've been working on this painting some more.
(Topic - Giving solar power to people instead of buildings // graduate students with new ideas.)

Website

2008-03-12T16:21:00.000-04:00

I've re-coded and updated my portfolio website based on the one I made last semester. I have some more to upload soon.

Look Here

I uploaded a site I made in intro to web this semester Project 3, also found in the design gallery.

Solar Influence

2008-03-04T05:18:00.000-05:00

This could look more like Lauren, so, not quite finished yet.

Solar Power

2008-02-23T02:51:00.000-05:00

Sketch for my next piece about solar panels giving people energy/new ideas instead of giving energy to buildings and material objects.

web

2008-02-19T03:14:00.000-05:00

GD

2008-02-15T19:53:00.000-05:00

I am working on a brochure and not sure where I'm going with it yet but this is a sample spread, in progress. The body copy is about ethnography, a research method based on observing people in their natural environment rather than in a formal research setting.

Make Believe - Pirate Spread

2008-02-09T14:38:00.000-05:00

color study for another spread in the book.

Make Believe

2008-01-26T04:19:00.000-05:00

color studies for children's book

Auto Show

2008-01-21T22:31:00.000-05:00

I found my painting printed on one of the display boards at the Detroit Auto Show this weekend at the CCS booth.

day four

2008-01-07T21:06:00.000-05:00

I finished the room today!
Here are pictures.

[babies r us - kidsline zanzibar]

day two

2008-01-03T22:21:00.000-05:00

I started working on the nursery yesterday, transferring the drawings and doing some re-drawing.
Today I started painting and I hope to finish tomorrow.
Here are some photos.

Love these colors!
I am painting on the two opposite walls which are a very light cream.

baby nursery

2007-12-27T15:56:00.000-05:00

Next week I am painting a baby nursery! The theme is jungle animals and the drawings are based on the bed spread for the crib so that they will match. I am painting on two walls with a window on each.

Here is an image of some of the animals.

Or check out this link to the Babies R Us site for more images.

kidsline zanzibar

thumbnail sketches.

color study.

I am so happy and thankful that my mom could borrow a projector from work so that I can easily enlarge the drawings and transfer them on the wall.
I will post progress when I get started next week!

windows

2007-11-28T22:45:00.000-05:00

18" x 18"
oil

While out on a photographing adventure I came across a simple building with great character. I assume that a storm swept through the building and forced all of the windows out, shattering the glass and leaving the shards on the sidewalk below.

Portrait

2007-11-04T00:08:00.000-04:00

Sam
Water Mixable Oil
10" x 20"

color study

2007-10-26T02:30:00.000-04:00

color study for class.
an editorial piece on scambaiters.

blog action day

2007-10-16T01:26:00.000-04:00

Today is blog action day. A day to discuss the environment.

What I have to say is simple.
Recycle.

Shortly after moving to this city I was cooking... something and I turned around to dispose of the can in, say, a container set aside for recyclable items. Why I assumed there'd be one in my kitchen, I don't know. So I asked my roommates what we should do, where we should take it. The reply was something like "recycle? Oh, we don't recycle here haha." I was basically knocked off my feet. So sadly I went about the last few years, not really doing a thing about it. Sometimes I would take stacks of paper home and recycle it there.

There is no curbside recycling service and I believe that laziness has set in to us all. So I've been researching and oh my goodness there are recycling centers in Detroit. It just requires a little time in the day to stop by and drop off your plastics, papers, etc.

http://recycledetroit.com/

So let's not be lazy.
Let's find a solution.
Let's care about the environment.

Also, my roommate is all about bringing her own cloth bags to places such as the Eastern Market instead of getting plastic bags over and over, only to dispose of them later. I absolutely love this idea and I think more people should consider doing this.

Care about the Earth. We live on it.

experimenting

2007-10-11T15:21:00.000-04:00

The image above is something I created in my sketchbook as a quick idea and experiment. I am in the process of re-creating it at a larger and presentable scale. I like the spontaneity in this image which I am trying to incorporate in the larger piece. I am also working on developing more content within the piece.

Somerset

2007-09-21T17:21:00.000-04:00

This past week I have been involved in a project with the illustration department and the Somerset Mall. They have costumes from movies on display at the mall and we have been going there to draw all week. I had a lot of fun using pastels. Below are some of my drawings. The actual work is about 18" x 24" for each dress. The company that makes the costumes is CosProp. They incorporate the finest detail, which I love.

Blogging

2007-09-16T22:32:00.000-04:00

Day one of the blog.
Hmm.

I have been working on a painting of George Harrison today. I'm giving the all new water mixable oils a try. No terpentine.. keep it safe. I'll post a picture of that one later.

Here is some recent artwork for now though.

A montage put together in photoshop. I painted the tree on a canvas, the bird on cardboard, and the other background images are cut paper, gesso, etc. I'd like to explore more with this.

My poster was chosen last May for Nathan and Eric's band Drake. The content was inspired by a specific song of theirs called Make Believe, which they would also like to make into a children's book. I am so excited to be their illustrator and I might make this my senior studio project for this semester.

I suppose that is all for now. Hopefully I will update this regularly and post current and in-progress work.