Self Portrait

This one I think came out pretty well. I drew a whole bunch of rectangles arranged like bricks, and then did shading with some red and orange colors. I like it, but I wish I would have picked a different picture of myself to use as a reference.

acrylic on canvas

8"x 10"

Hand

This painting is definitely one of my favorites. Probably my favorite painting I have done. It's just a hand, my hand. I first drew many, many, tiny triangles and then shaded to make it look like a hand. At first I didn't know what to do with the background. I had something with color outlines, but it looked pretty bad. Then a friend suggested to put in an out of focus, dark background, and I came up with the rainy look that I have now. I'm just really pleased with how it came out.

Box Tunnel

This one is not one of my favorites. I just thought that the effect was going to be stronger with the vanishing point of all the boxes in the center. Even so, it turned out OK, at least good enough to make it onto my blog.

acrylic on canvas

18"x 24"

Fractal Tree

The next tree and plant related painting is one that I pretty much copied out of a fractal book by Benoit Mandlebrodt. In the book, though, it's black and white. I added all of the colors as well as the blue sun.

acrylic on paper

11"x 17"

Tulips

Here is the second in the day of tree and plant related posts. It's flowers. I painted this one for a friend, and I think it turned out OK. It's a little sad that my favorite part of it is the background.

Tree Beard

This one is pretty cool, I think, and some of my friends have really liked it. I painted it from an image that popped into my head when I was sitting in a kimbap restaurant in Korea with low bloodsugar and looking up at a weird colored light at the ceiling.

acrylic on canvas

12"x 24"

Honeycomb Fractal

This painting was just sort of an experiment when I was trying to paint some fractals. A fractal is mathematical term for something that you can take a small piece of and it's similar to the whole thing (self similar). So this one is the hexagonal shape with more hexagonal shapes inside of it and with more hexagonal shapes inside it. You get the picture.

acrylic on paper

11"x 17"

Flower Lantern

This lantern was a gift I painted for my little sister when she graduated from college in 2010. It's pretty simple, just a giant flower on the top and bottom of the lantern. I like how the shading looks on the flowers, but my favorite part is probably the background yellow and orange colors.

acrylic on paper lantern

diameter ~12"

Rainbow Lantern

Hooray, another lantern! This one is triangular shapes that come from each end, and then there are waves that intersect through the triangles. I chose the 6 basic colors of the rainbow, and then where the wave intersects I put the complementary color to the one next to it. This one looks the best when it is lit up, but I don't have a picture of that.

acrylic on paper lantern

diameter ~16"

Hand Lantern

And now time for another lantern. Thanks for reading, by the way. According to the information provided to me by the Blogger website, a lot of my readers are from Russia. I'm not really sure how that happened, but it's cool.

This lantern has 4 hands on it. I got the idea for it when I had my hands together like on the lantern, and realized it would be a cool design to have on the lantern. I think that the colors turned out really well, too. I hope you like it:

acrylic on paper lantern

diameter ~16"

Triangle Lantern

This lantern is defnitely in my top 5 favorites of anything I have painted. It started with two small circles near the top and bottom holes. Then the circles were connected with rounded lines to each of the other circles to create 4 triangles. The fringes were colored in with a gradation from yellow to purple. It turned out pretty spectacular!

acrylic on paper lantern

diameter ~16"

Drop

I'm just working my way through all of the paintings I have to put up. This one is based on a picture of a drop of water hitting a water surface. I used the contour of the surface and then split it into the block sections, as I did with some other paintings. I think that the geometry turned out well, but the colors aren't the best. I recently gave this painting to my friend Mike for taking care of my cats.

acrylic on paper

11"x 17"

The Owl

I wanted to add this picture because I just stumbled on it and remembered how good it is. I just took a picture of an owl and substituted some bright colors instead of the browns. I think the eyes are my favorite part. This was painted as a gift.

acrylic on canvas

11"x14"

Dual Sky Lantern

Finally a lantern! I started painting lanterns when I found out I could get them pretty cheaply in Korea. They are super fun to paint. It's like painting in three dimensions, though its really two, but whatever.

This one features two different colored suns at the top and bottom as well as two different colored trees. It really turned out great for a lantern with the warm colors. I have it to a friend in Korea.

acrylic on paper lantern

~14" diameter