Cross-Country Boat Race Art Print

When I was making sketches for “Swimming Above the City of Orennon”, there were some different ideas that I’d had for what the rocks in that environment might look like that I didn’t end up using but I liked enough to where I figured I would use them in another painting. Those ideas turned into this composition of a natural setting with these big rocky boulder-like forms as the main point of attention. When I was considering the possibility that these rock forms could be made up of multiple different-coloured sections, I had the idea to instead have sections of them glow in the dark and to make these glowing sections work as the main sources of light in a nighttime setting. 

In regards to the boat racing idea, I was mainly thinking of boat racing here as the alien world equivalent of car racing, so I had a bit of fun designing the boats to have a roof and a tail fin spoiler part at the back to try to make them look a little sportier, although I’ll admit that I also find that the design makes the boats sort of look like glowing fish speeding along. 

The narrative of this series continues as we can see a couple of humans and a couple of aliens all competing in a race together in the bottom portion of the painting.