Red Rocks

 Red Rocks (3x5")

I've always been fascinated by light, especially by the way it saturates when it bounces around a scene. I guess it goes back to my days working in computer-generated graphics where bounce light is very time-consuming to calculate. Modern CG studios have rooms full of computers (called "render farms") that calculate the way light behaves for every single pixel in an image. Usually that happens 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

I had a bit of trouble with defining my shapes with this painting. Those rocks are all over the place (literally). The color range I ended up with also feels a bit off - the light and dark values are very close together which makes the composition muddy. It's hard to read what's going on.