Dragon Lantern

I already gave this gift to my Mother for Christmas, so its OK for me to post it here now. Its a square lantern that I picked up in Chinatown in Montreal, which I wanted to paint some dragons on. I started painting a smaller one, but I realized it was upside down and that I didn't like it. Then I found a black and white picture of a dragon head which I painted on each side and colored. I put of couple of Chinese words on there, too. It's for my Mom's bedroom which she will decorate East Asian style.

Best of 2011

Hello readers. Thanks for stopping by my painting website! Right now I'm looking for a little bit of feedback from you. I have four paintings listed, and I would like you to pick your favorite of my paintings of 2011. I have selected my four favorites, but I limited it canvas paintings. If you have other favorites please feel free to comment.

The poll is on the page to the right! ----------------------------------------------->

Here are the choices:

Gorilla

Bar Snacks

K Pop

Dogs

Thanks for voting!

London Postcards

So I've finally made it through my stockpile of paintings. I do have one more that I finished recently, but its a Christmas present so I'm not going to post it. I will put up a few polls pretty soon, so check back soon so you can vote.

This is a project I started after my trip to the UK this summer. I picked up a booklet of postcards from the Tate Modern museum, and decided to paint the postcards with vividly colored recreations of pictures I took on the trip. Here's what I came up with.

The booklet:

Columns at British Museum

Scott Monument in Edinburgh

London Skyline

Summer Breeze

Roger's Glass

Buckingham Palace

Welsh Cow

Stonehenge

Me on the Rocks

Scones

Wedding

Marlene in Wales

8 Bit Fire Lantern

Here is one of my most recent paintings, this lantern. I bought this large, football shaped lantern in China town in London. I then carried it all the way back to the U.S. and finally painted it a few months later. I was going for just some rectangle shapes to make a really blocky pattern with the warm colors. What I ended up with was this design that looks like an original Nintendo rendering of fire:

acrylic on paper lantern

diameter ~14", length ~24"