The final reason I love this piece so much is probably for nostalgia reasons. Also, I love how the oils and acrylics came together to work perfectly for this particular piece. Can you tell where I used acrylic paint? Comment below and see if you’re right. The sketches turned out great and the acrylic painting of them even better. Why that’s somewhat of a big deal to me is because I have very low confidence in my drawing ability. I put in some sketches before hand on the canvas and painted them with acrylic paint. Another reason I love it so much is because I tried something new with it. And since I had planned it for so long and took on what I perceived as an ambitious project, it turned out better than I thought it could. That’s why I did the two previous mountain paintings in preparation. One reason is I looked at this as ambitious. This is probably my favorite painting that I’ve ever done! Why is that you might ask? Well, I think for many reasons. So technically, this is a mixed media painting.
I’m not going to do that here because this one is all original and used a lot of extra brushes and even some acrylic paints. Here’s where I usually list all the colors and materials used. I found a few scenes that looked like they could be done with the Bob Ross technique and sketched something out in my sketchbook. I took that into consideration and set about to find some Halo scenery to see what I could throw together. Someone once suggested that I paint a scene from some video games since some of the realistic games these days have some pretty nice scenery. We would run the LAN cable through to each others rooms and have epic 8 vs 8 battle royals. My friends and I would play for hours in the dormitories. I loved that game when it was first released along with the XBox. The inspiration for this painting was, of course, the video game Halo. This is a scene that you might find in one of the many Halo video games but painted in the Bob Ross/Bill Alexander wet on wet style. Painting #66 is called Bob Ross Meets Halo.