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PAWSON HOUSE 1994
In keeping with John Pawsons’ crisp minimal style I chose to render this interior concentrating mainly on the simplicitiy of the materials and the importance of light. I chose to render this image in tones of grey and light browns, leaning towards a warmer palette by adding tones of yellow in the ambient colours of the harsher, colder greys. The scene is rendered at day time, either mid morning or mid afternoon, allowing the sunlight to spill onto the wall and floor taking with it the dappled shadow of the gumtree just outside the window. I chose to add a subtle reflective quality to both the right hand side wall and floor to asthetically “extend” the space and help make it feel not so small and closed in. The main “sunlight” is a large directional spot light, casting raytrace shadows, with a smaller ambient omni in the centre of the room and a few smaller omnis’ just to pick up on the reflective quality of the water in the bath and the wall.

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With this image I attempted to replicate the above render by manipulating it to look similar to that of Frank Lloyd Wrights hand drawn renders. In Photoshop, I applied a ‘poster edge’ filter, which gave me the rough black outlines of the edges, shadows and textures, and then altered the brightness and contrast to translate the colours to a more monotonal palette, as well as changing the translucency to cloudy, aged look that many of Wrights render possess. I also added Wrights trademark red tile and explanatory text running at the base the image.