Category Archives: Atomic

Robot Santa Sketch

RoboSanta

Here’s a sneak peak at my Christmas card/ImagineFX contest piece/possibly ArtOrder contest piece if Jon Schindehette allows the double entry (I seem to remember that being against the rules of the blog, but I’ll ask).  Always nice to be able to use one piece for multiple purposes.

The theme for the ImagineFX contest was robot santa. I took it a bit further with a sort of 1920s art deco rocketeer-esque santa figure.  The color scheme will be, what else, red and white.  I’m playing with a cut-out color separation look but I might switch back to my normal painting style.  I’ll have the final up tomorrow, or at the beginning of next week.  There’s nothing like trying to figure out how to put a beard on a robot.

New Painting: Atomicon

Atomicon


A few weeks ago I saw a movie called Atomic Cafe. Its basically a feature length flic with a loose plot, pieced together from Cold War era propaganda and educational films.  Its hilarious, disturbing, and nothing short of genius.

Anyway, its interesting how differently we experience war and the threat of war today.  Its basically like… we don’t. The threat of global destruction was omnipresent for almost 50 years. Now we are so far removed from this concept we feel invincible.

Atomic weapons have unfortunately been used before, and will surely be used again.

The future is looking bright!