This is the second digitally-edited painting in a short three-painting series based on some photos I took of a relative’s old conservatory before it was demolished and renovated last spring. When I was taking the photos, there was the sound of rain hammering on the old, leaky roof and the whole place had a slightly unreal atmosphere to it, like literally being in a low-budget indie horror computer game. And, yes, this experience was the inspiration for part of a cynical sci-fi horror story I wrote last year.
As usual, this painting is released under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND licence.
“Old Conservatory Workroom (March 2023)” by C. A. Brown
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It is nicely done! I really enjoy the atmosphere of this picture, and the way you make this lights shine brightly 🙂
Thanks 🙂 As for the lights, I used two techniques for this. As well as the traditional one of making sure that the lightest colour in the entire painting was the white lines in the middle of the lights, I also used a low-opacity digital airbrush on a scan of the painting to add a “bloom”-style effect to the lights as well.
Sounds like a really cool technique 🙂
Thanks 🙂