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"

K-Pop

This painting I really like. I started with a picture of this Korean singer named I.U. I painted her face and hand and hair with the yellow, orange, red and purple scheme, and then did this psychedelic background. I'm happy with how everything came out except for her teeth, so I may go back and try to fix them.

acrylic on canvas

16"x 20"

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"

Summer

Here's a picture I painted for my girlfriend. It's from a picture where she is posing next to this strange statue in Incheon, Korea. I jazzed up the colors a little bit, and this is what I got.

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"