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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Art Masterpiece Project Use your imagination to make a FUTURESCAPE 1.Draw futuristic objects (spaceships, Martians, etc.) in a natural setting (i.e. ocean, mountains, desert, etc.) 1.Sketch lightly so you can easily erase 2.Think about the vantage point you will use (bird’s-eye or other?) 2.Color in your drawing 3.Outline your objects in black 4.Lightly “wash” your artwork with your watercolors. 1.Be sure to add a lot of water on your brushes so the paint is very transparent