I’m getting more into traditional art now that I’m working on a game about museums, so I felt compelled to do a still life of my view this morning. Laying in bed with my dogs, home alone, I was struck by the beautiful lighting and how it bounced across the room. I’m a massive lighting nerd when it comes to realtime graphics, so I can appreciate some excellent global illumination like this, but instead of putting my render engine to work to recreate it, I decided to paint it.
It reminds me of one of my favorite paintings and certainly my favorite still life that I did, which is this one, of the backdoor in my parental home: