"Dawn of a New Day" is a panoramic 3D rendering of a retro-futuristic scene - it's set in a hangar (or garage) in the Future That Never Was.

Like any garage, it's cluttered with the bits and pieces and odds and ends that haven't quite made the cut of daily life - along with an assortment of tools, appliances, and whatnot. There are some interesting bits stored away in there.

Rusty the Robot and his human companion are taking a brief look through the morning paper over a cup of coffee. Any minute now that Buck Rogers-style retro rocket is likely to get warmed up and taken out for a spin.

The title is taken from a posthumous Gershwin collaboration that was used as a theme song for the 1939 New York World's Fair - the Fair whose theme was "The World of Tomorrow".

I've spent quite a long time on this image and its characters, who should be showing up in other renderings as time goes on. The picture itself started as a 3D rendering but I've done some overpainting in Photoshop to refine and finish it.

(I have modified the color balance of this file so that it will print more true to its original; for that reason, as you see it here on your monitor you’re seeing it a bit paler and greener than it ought to be.)