Lion with green

Painted for my son, Jojo, at birth. 

2020. Acrylic on Canvas

 

Elephants

Here are elephants I painted for my first son, Chimmy, when he was born.

 

Pouring Wine

For the recent Valentine's Day, I had to get a gift for Summer. The easiest gift to get is the free one. I had this canvas sheet where I put a few thousand tiny triangles. I knew I wanted to use a photograph represented with triangles, and finally I found this one with someone pouring wine. Since Summer likes wine, it seemed like a good Valentines gift.

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.