More Star Trek! And Musings on Meaning

Two new pieces are up! These paintings just flew together, proof of how quickly I can work when I'm really excited about what I'm doing. These continue the Star Trek theme; I recently discovered Wil Wheaton's delightful reviews of early TNG episodes and I guess I've been thinking a lot about that world and how much I love it. But I'm branching out! Besides the aforementioned Rubies, I've been working on some other tracings:

I like working this way because I can bring my tracing paper home at night and draw while watching a movie or something, and then go into my studio the next morning and incorporate what I've drawn directly into a painting. It's a fast way of working, it gets across what I'm trying to get across, and it's stylistically more interesting than a straight painting.

Now, I know what you're thinking (or what I'm thinking in my deepest subconscious): branching out? Why, Julia, you've already done a million Zac Efron paintings, Point Break paintings, and even a Ruby Keeler painting! What's next: another painting of your sister?
And in turn, I turn to myself and say, No! You don't understand! No one understands me! I'm building a LANGUAGE here! When I reference Point Break in a painting, for example, I'm really talking about brotherhood and the pain of love torn asunder. Zac Efron, in my ouvre, is the Christ figure, a paragon of perfection in imperfect times. Ruby Keeler could represent the innocence of times past.....a talentless, off-key, wooden-shoe-wearing emblem of times past.

....well, she COULD. If I really felt like explaining myself to myself. But I don't! So let's just say there are certain themes I like to return to again and again. Hitchcock had overbearing mothers - I have Point Break.