Blue Orange Lantern

One of my favorite lantern styles is here. To start, I make a straight line starting at an angle, and just continue it around the lantern a bunch of times. Because of the shape, the line continues around and around, crossing and making shapes as it goes. I used a few shades of blue and then one orange to make some contrast. This one turned out really well.

What a handsome lantern!

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.

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"

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"

Shapes Lantern

This lantern is pretty sweet, I think. I started with drawing a single straight line on the lantern, and kept going and going with it until the surface was split into a bunch of 3, 4, and 5 sided shapes. It turned out pretty well using the warm colors.

acrylic on paper lantern

diameter ~8"

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