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I follow this painter on instagram named Jullian Merrow Smith: https://shiftinglight.com/ He does these great still life studies of one fruit with great lighting. I never could pull off that lighting, then I saw 1 single second in a promotional video where he does this:pic.twitter.com/WOU3vhcZM1
A fucking box? Why the hell didn't I think to create a light trap with a cardboard box? It's the first time I've ever seen someone do that, and I took classes from some of the greatest still life painters working today, and every video, and *nobody* came up with this.
In the past I'd have teachers tell you to use every damn thing around. Black book shelves with complicated black panels and light from here and there and cloth over this, but no matter where you put a light it will never work like this.
The reason this works better than a light over the whole subject and black cloth backgrounds is the box acts as a light trap, which creates a softened edge where the light falls off into blackness behind. You can then turn the box easily to change light direction, or...
Push the objects deeper into the darkness to reduce the light on them, or pull them out to make them more bright, and that also controls depth AND the light is soft and diffused as it falls to black so the *edges* of the objects are very soft and controlled. It's brilliant.
It's brilliant, and it's just a free cardboard box with a hole in it. It's simple little tricks like that which you can't figure out from looking at a painting, or sometimes painters won't even mention this as they think it's not important, but that little device helps a lot.
This has convinced me I really need to do a painting a day.
Yeah, check his instagram and see what he does with just like little fruits and things. It doesn't have to be complex to be a good study. Also, these little cardboard panels are pretty good for small practice paintings https://www.jerrysartarama.com/soho-urban-artist-painting-panels … The 6x9 box is really 6x8 though.
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