Uplighting is when the main light source in a work of art is coming from below the subject. This lighting almost always lends a creepy or outright scary vibe. If you’ve ever shone a torch under your chin while on camp you’ll be well-aware of how different you look. Few (if any?) people are rendered more beautiful with this lighting and this is entirely the point.
Edwin Howland Blashfield (1848-1936) ‘Angel with Flaming Sword’ – Century Illustrated 1893Ksenia Kareva – Tales of the Brothers GrimmThe Old Dark House, poster illustration by Karoly GrozeMystery Nurse Diana DouglasGLOW OF LIGHT by Sawlaram Lakshman Haldankar (1882–1968). Image from Dharmyug Magazine 1956Norman Rockwell for Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 1935Hocus Pocus illustrated by Gris GrimlyZofia Stryjenska (1891-1976, Poland), Candle Girl, cardboard, gouacheWILLIAM GROPPER (1897-1977) Torch Singer 1936Adventure Magazine ‘Man of the North (June 15, 1929) cover illustration by William M. ReusswigMunicipal Journal Magazine November 14 1912 (a Seattle magazine about Construction Machinery) cover artAmerican Boy Vintage Magazine July 1936 cover art by M. de V. LeeRolf Armstrong, Nita Naldi, Screenland magazine, Sept. 1924John Butler Yeats (Irish,1839-1922) – A Haunted Chamber candle nightAn Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump (1768) by Joseph Wright of Derby (England, 1734–1797)Edmund F. Ward
