Visual Art Gifts

Moonrise on a distant plant is my second robot artwork (the first was a digital drawing), and I used acrylic paint.  It wasn’t part of the Learn and Master Painting course that I’ve been learning to paint with, but I did try to practice different strokes, brush technique, and color mixing as shown in the course.

Moonrise on a Distant Planet Painting by Christopher Johnson

Unlike my previous works, I decided to first make a quick sketch outline of the robot basic shape and then I started painting over it in blocks finishing with the sky and moonrise. No, I didn’t really try to keep inside the lines since the painting course doesn’t show that as being correct. Instead I used my outline sketch as a guide and quite a few details changed as I worked.  It was loosely inspired by a famous robot, but almost every aspect of this work is different from the robot that inspired it.