Recent Illustration – Tomb of the Claw

acrylic on paper, March 2025

When I was working as a commercial photographer and grip, we would often use colored gels to color different light sources in order to get them all to a similar hue. Green gels were used to correct Tungsten lights to the kelvin reading of fluorescent lighting and magenta gels were used to correct fluorescent lights to the color of Tungsten lights. But you could also use these sorts of gels for creative effects — when photographing things for catalogs (really boring work), I used to experiment with exotic but subtle color effects — a little magenta gel on a key light from one side and a little green on the key light from the other side would create colored highlights. I wish I still had any of those photos – god knows where they are now. In this painting, I took that effect and applied it to the painting – the lime green light from the elf’s staff contrasts with the bright magenta light from the spell caster’s magic.

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