Lighting Mentor – Painting Light 102 with Jeremy Vickery

Build on observational painting and learn to invent convincing lighting. Painting Light 102 explores how illumination, surface properties and atmosphere shape a scene. Jeremy Vickery teaches extraction: studying the essential lighting qualities of a reference and applying them to an original composition. The workflow encourages testing several lighting moods before refining a final painting.

Weekly Topics

1. Extraction & Ambient Light: Observe reference lighting and transfer it to a new scene.
2. Direct Light: Light direction, shadow placement and falloff.
3. Indirect Light: Bounced illumination and believable interactions between surfaces.
4. Materials: How matte, metallic, ceramic and translucent surfaces respond to light.
5. Fog, Color & Texture: Atmospheric depth, surface color and complex materials.
6. Advanced Extraction: Reinterpret weather and time of day to change a composition’s mood.

Original Course Resources

The original course includes weekly assignments and downloadable resources. Its listed subtitle languages are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese and Spanish.