Old World Masters Background 1 by dbwalton
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Old World Masters Background 1
I created this background in Deep Dream and it reminds me of the old world master painters and the backgrounds they would paint on the canvas.
Comments (5)
Gorgeous portrait.👍🙋♂️
Thank you.
Beautiful portrait! This one is my favourite, because of the lighting and her expression.
Thank you. I agree.
Lovely! Great combo with the "Rembrandt lighting" for sure!
Thank you. Trivia question: Why was Rembrandt's portrait lighting the way it was?
Origin of photographic term: (from Wikipedia) Pioneering movie director Cecil B. DeMille is credited with the first use of the term. While shooting the 1915 film, The Warrens of Virginia, DeMille borrowed some portable spotlights from the Mason Opera House in downtown Los Angeles and "began to make shadows where shadows would appear in nature." When business partner Sam Goldwyn saw the film with only half an actor's face illuminated, he feared the exhibitors would pay only half the price for the picture. After DeMille told him it was Rembrandt lighting, "Sam’s reply was jubilant with relief: for Rembrandt lighting, the exhibitors would pay double!
Now, that I hadn't heard before. They taught us photography portraiture class that Rembrandt painted in the cellar. There was a trap door that let light in. He would position his model such that the light would glance across the face creating shadow from the nose down to the corner of the mouth (i.e. closed loop lighting).
The instructor claimed others before Rembrandt used that shadowing, but I've done no research to validate that. (Frankly, I could care less. LOL)
It does create a good mood for portraits.
I didn't know the origin of the term. I do like Rembrandt, and I made a weak attempt at a rendering many years ago based on his painting, "The Mill," in my gallery. There are so many tools available to 3D artists, and the sky is not the limit. I hope to start up again.
My paternal grandmother was a an artist (oils mostly). She got me started painted, but I only did it once in a while because clean-up took SO LONG. In the early 2000s, I bought Corel Painter, but was overwhelmed by it's complexity. Then, when I retired in 2012, I signed up for a bunch of classes in Corel Painter - Jim Cunningham, Helen Yancy and Jeremy Sutton.
Corel Painter is as close as one can get to real-life painting with oil, gauche, acrylic, watercolor, etc, as one can get on the computer. It's amazing (and expensive). BUT, anyone taking it up should take a class with someone like Cunningham or Yancy (Sutton isn't a very good instructor). Yancy is the BEST. She's also got some tutorials out there.
So, if you like to paint (not just render), I really recommend taking a look at Corel Painter. There's a stripped version called Painter Essentials. Both have free trial periods.