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Robert T. McCall Space Artist

Robert T. McCall Space Artist. Topics: Fantasy / Imagination Futurescape Crayon Resist. McCall ’ s Life. Born in Columbus, Ohio in 1919 Grew up fascinated by things that fly & looking at Moon craters through a telescope

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Robert T. McCall Space Artist

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  1. Robert T. McCallSpace Artist Topics: Fantasy / Imagination Futurescape Crayon Resist

  2. McCall’s Life • Born in Columbus, Ohio in 1919 • Grew up fascinated by things that fly & looking at Moon craters through a telescope • After attending Art College, worked at Life Magazine illustrating stories about futuristic space travel • NASA asked him to illustrate the history of the space program • He & his wife lived in Paradise Valley, Arizona for 20 years • At 90 years old, he died in 2010 of a heart attack

  3. McCall’s Art • Space Artist • Visionary • Futuristic • Imaginative • Murals • Stamps • Time Magazine Illustrations • Movie production illustrator • NASA Mission Patches

  4. Vocabulary • Bird’s-eye view: Seeing an object from above (like a bird would) • Imagination: Creative ability to form a mental picture of something that is not real • Futurescape: Painting of the future as the artist imagines it • Shape: A flat figure created when actual or implied lines meet to enclose a space. • geometric (square, triangle, circle) • organic (irregular in outline) Splashdown

  5. McCall “I am living the future that I dreamed about when I was a young boy, and for me it is just as bright and wonderful as I imagined.” -McCall

  6. Horizons Mural, The Prologue and the Promise –Disney’s Epcot Center Futurescape: 10 Months to complete on a 19x60 foot canvas

  7. McCall’s 2001: A Space Odyssey “At heart he was an astronaut, a pilot, and mostly a dreamer, with pencil and paintbrush as his means to take you to places far beyond the bounds of Earth.” “He was a visionary genius who’s strokes on the canvas took us to places where no man had gone before!!” “With his feet firmly planted on the ground, his imagination new nothing of shoes for his visions, always looking towards the heavens.” –John Eaves

  8. The Spirit of Arizona Uses rainbows, to symbolize happiness and prosperity

  9. Cosmic Birth (1990) • A whimsical title for a smaller spacecraft dropping from a larger ship • Landscape inspired by a trip the artist took to Canyon de Chelly in Northern Arizona

  10. Art Masterpiece Project Use your imagination to make a FUTURESCAPE • Draw futuristic objects (spaceships, Martians, etc.) in a natural setting (i.e. ocean, mountains, desert, etc.) • Sketch lightly so you can easily erase • Think about the vantage point you will use (bird’s-eye or other?) • Color in your drawing • Outline your objects in black • Lightly “wash” your artwork with yourwatercolors. • Be sure to add a lot of water on your brushes so the paint is very transparent

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