Senior Tile

So I graduated this year (yay!) and our school puts tiles up on the ceiling by each senior. I couldn't really think of anything clever to do, so I just made a sort of shattered design with each of my favorite fandoms represented. I also made each segment's design a pattern, because I think it helped with the composition. It's acrylic on tagboard but it's pretty sloppy, mostly because I figured it'd be up on a ceiling and no one would really stare at the details too closely anyway.

Going around from bottom middle clockwise: Doctor Who, Torchwood, Supernatural, Night Vale, Star Trek, Vlogbrothers, Sherlock, Harry Potter, and then just a generic "time" theme, because I like clocks and stuff. ;) I've replaced my name with my tumblr URL to protect my anonymity.

Starstuff

"The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff." -- Carl Sagan

Here's my lone attempt at coming up with something deep and meaningful this semester; pretty much the woman's footsteps sort of give off a mist of "starstuff". In reality, the swirly cloud this is a mixture of the floral, anatomical, mathematical, and astronomical. 

Acrylic on canvasboard; I tried dripping some of the paint down in streaks but it didn't really work. *sigh*

Face Study Part 2: Clara

Following up on Cas, I switched to doing Clara in acrylic on canvas. She's the current companion on Doctor Who. I did alright with her, but the resemblance isn't nearly as good as Cas's. The nose is by far the best part, and I don't think I went dark enough around the eyes and shadowed side of the face. *sigh* Alas.

Neuschwanstein Candle Holder

You may have noticed I have a thing for Neuschwanstein, the Bavarian castle built by King Ludwig II. My German teacher asked if I could paint it on a little glass candle holder about three inches high for her. It features the castle on one side and a little red-roofed village on the other. It's acrylic on glass, but the fine detailing on the castle is gray pen.

Farmall F-20 Tractor Painting

So for Christmas this year my dad requested a painting of his Farmall F-20 tractor, which is his favorite. I painted it in two days, using reference photos of the area around our house and the tractor. In the background is our ye olde road grader. Acrylic on canvas.

Reference photo of the tractor:

Percepliquis Painting

So today I just finished my Percepliquis painting (it took me 5 days). Percepliquis is an ancient, ruined, underground and half-submerged city in the book "The Heir of Novron" (aka "Wintertide" & "Percepliquis") by the brilliant Michael J. Sullivan. The books are well worth a read, and I would strongly recommend them to anyone into medieval, Lord-of-the-Rings-style, thief-and-con-man fantasy. You can learn more at Sullivan's website. The painting is an original composition, drawing strongly on the description of the city and its surroundings as detailed in the book. Acrylic on canvas:

Now I open the jpeg on my computer, and five minutes later I have this (yes, I know underground there's no sun, or indeed much light at all but lens flares are so cool....... :-)  ) :

At least this is an improvement over my last Percepliquis drawing. *shudders*.