Sisters

Another post tonight of a painting that was a gift. I have two students whom I teach English and science, and they are both fairly small Korean girls. I have a giant trench coat, and one day they both tried to wear it. I got a photo, and I thought it was so great that i had to create a painting of it, in the yellow-orange-red-purple color style. I think it turned out really well, but the only photo I have of it is really blurry. I'll try to take another one.

Break Dance

Here is a painting that was done as a gift. My wife's sister was getting married, so I did the cheap thing and painted something for a gift. She works in hip-hop dancing in China, and she was just furnishing a new home, so I figure a painting of some break dancers would be nice. I basically went online and found a few pictures of dancers, painted them in some kind of monochromatic style, and then did a sort of outline emanating from them. I think it turned out very well.

 

Triangle Bird

For my first post in well over a year, I want to post one of my most recent favorites. This is a technique where I draw a whole bunch of triangles on a canvas. Probably a few thousand, I guess. Then I kind of approximate a picture of something, this one being a bird. It turned out pretty well.

Acrylic on canvas,

9x16

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

Punk Bass Guitar

This is the first post in the so called "miscellaneous" section. It is my bass guitar, which I bought in Korea to play with my band, Iron Kimchi. At that point, we were going for more of a punk style. My guitar was black, with a white pick guard, and I decided to go with a pretty over the top cheezy paint job on it: