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!

Eiffel

I needed to make a gift for Summer's sister, so I decided to paint a picture. I took one of my photos of the Eiffel Tower from a trip to Paris, split it up into small shapes and painted with a bunch of colors. Voila, Eiffel Tower.

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.

 

Architexture

Finally, I am going to post a whole bunch of painting images that have been piling up. I have been just hoarding these paintings, and not letting the world (the handful of people that may stumble upon this blog) see them. Tonight, I'm putting at least a few of them up.

The first one is my first painting of 2015, this architectural one. I saw a photo on my facebook feed that someone else took, and I was inspired. The buildings have so much texture to them, and that's what I wanted to show, hence the lame name. I updated the colors a bit, and voila, my view of the picture. I think it came out really well:

acrylic on canvas paper,

9" x 12"

And, since I basically plagiarized, I'll go ahead and post the original photo, stolen from facebook:

If I find the original source, I'll update this post and credit the photographer.

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

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"