Even in the dark you can find some semblance of color, and perhaps because of their limited scope, these can be used to further heighten the unease felt wandering solitary streets in the witching hours.
The initial stages of my Night Light series involved making multpiple sketches of the creepy and eerie throughout the quiet hours of the night. I focused on quantifiying the artistic elements, be they composition, lighting, and subject matter, that created the greatest psychological unease--what transformation had to occur to make the mundane frightening?
Was it the velvet shadows of the night, where anything could hide? Was it the rickety skeleton of a house, towering gloomy above you? Or was it the haunting windows of the houses, like eyes, that suggested a human presence, or lack of one, watching us tread carefully in the dark?
