Thursday, December 11, 2008

Portraits - Eleven/Twelve: #6 Grand Inquisitor? Star Trek?


This is the last one!
We're back to my least favorite thing, 'lighting from below,' but this time there's a spooky red filter over the lamp. Our teacher gave us a big hint--the red parts will look like they're reflecting red light only if all the rest of the painting is made darker. So we just adjusted all the other paint colors down a few steps darker from real life. This is the first time he made us paint something different from what we could actually see. Pretending it's a little bit darker isn't that hard, but it felt like an uphill jog. My brain is even more out-of-shape than the rest of me.