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Harvest Day Impasto Kaleidoscope Art
I still have to add these and the next set to Zazzle for fun gifts especially those cool ties and cards for Father’s Day, but they are all at Imagekind. I’m making a few new sets of kaleidoscope artwork to celebrate my recent TBA at Zazzle for one of my Kaleidoscope ties. I didn’t make a post for those but it was another series. I’ve always been surprised by what is (and what isn’t) awarded a Today’s Best Award. In any case, it doesn’t really matter since I’ll design, paint, draw, or photograph what I want. 
The Harvest Day Impasto Kaleidoscope Art is a series of geometric designs which were inspired by the colors on a photo of pumpkins resting against a leafless tree on a lawn I saw at Morguefile. While the photo wasn’t so amazing, I really thought the color combination was great even though in the kaleidoscopes I didn’t use the pumpkin orange. The impasto is the thick painterly texture added to these artworks. You really can see the texture in either preview, but it was added.
Moonrise on a Distant Planet – Robot Painting
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.
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