Robot painting: I am doing better.

A few years ago, I was going through a pretty big depression.  Sometimes when there’s too much going on in my head, I paint, and it helps.  Robots are sort of my default subject when I’m not sure what to paint, so I painted a lot of robots back then — but all of those robots turned out SO sad-looking that I can’t even bear to look at them.

I gave some of the sad robot paintings to my friend Meredith just to get them out of my apartment (she does props and thought she might have a use for them someday).  They’re now being used on the set of the TV show Suburgatory, which I think is hilarious.

But anyway, one of those old robot paintings was so depressing that Meredith couldn’t bear to look at it either.  It showed a hopeless-looking robot who was chained to the ground.  I decided I would paint over that one, and today, I finally did.

I don’t have a before picture, but here’s a “during” shot that gives you a peek at what I was covering up.

And here’s the after:

I ended up deciding at the very end that the new version had too much pink space, so I gave it a blue border.

I’m so happy that I turned this painting (which is on a piece of cradled clayboard, and super-easy to hang) into something I can put on the wall of my apartment without making visitors cry!

p.s. The new version still looks a bit hesitant and cautious, but I think this robot at least believes things can get better.