"Waiting" seems to be a mysterious and mesmerizing classic painting you once saw in a museum somewhere, but it actually started as a screenshot from Second Life. An SLer named Harbor Galaxy created it, attempting to express "that feeling you get when you are looking out into the horizon, as though something surely will happen... something or someone will appear."
Harbor has a unique and powerful approach to SL images, and as it turns out, works intuitively in the virtual world to create them:
"I don't know how others work but I rarely start off with an concept," she tells me. "I'm generally looking for some kind of emotional hook, and God knows that can change from day to day. Once I find the spot, I will spend a great deal of time on WindLight working to get the shadow and lighting that just feels right. Then it's on to GIMP — some of the tools I use quite a bit are Color Saturation, blur, and a distorting tool. I also have a few free textures I use to add some depth to the piece. What I'm trying to accomplish is something from SL that transcends SL."
I'd say she's succeeded, don't you?
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