Asylum Interior

Today I decided that having a subject bores me so I will paint an interesting interior instead. I also  would like to rededicate myself to passions past of insanity. My professor has rearmed me with a slew of interesting topics to read up on so I am very excited to see what images I am able to pull out this time around.

As this image is devoid of the living and bares the scars of time, I shall have a glorious time rendering all sorts of textures and surface lighting. The selling point in this one is going to be getting those windows right. I'm going to have to pull a page out of impressionism for this one. It would be lovely to have some perfectly rendered photo realistic windows, but it would also be highly unnatural. Stand in a darkened room and look towards a distant bright window. Notice how the light creeps over the edge blurring it slightly, how it pours into the room and latches onto every minute detail, how looking directly at the window seems to darken the rest of the room temporarily. I must achieve all of this and more. It is challenges like these that make me so glad to be a painter. When would anyone else take the time to appreciate such simple things as a light filled window.