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Ack! I've been working back and forth with this idea for 3 weeks now, - and I'm still not getting what I want. There are several problems here: 1. The reflections of the glass makes the beast outside look harmless. Suggestions? 2. The spherical light I've put in the lamp is only strength 3, square falloff, and a dark color. Yet it seems to give far too much light. What am I not getting? 3. How do I best light up the painter? I've used Max' zenit light outside. and I want the room to look dark, yet I want to be able to see the persons in there, and to make the painters angest visible... The best method? please.. OK... guess who this guy is? Countryman of me. Had successful exhibitions in both France and Germany. One of his exhibitions was called "Love, Angest and Death". He has been called the father of expressionism. Also; I'd be VERY happy for any comments on a totally different theme. *l* (follow link)

Turn your lights down. Set the material in your shades to where the diffusion and ambience add up to greater than 100 that way the shades will appear to glow. Set the monster's ambient color to near black and kick it up to make it darker and more menacing. The glass is also reflecting the light yellow room color. cut the reflection down.

I will try that! I'm sure I'm going to pull some more hair out before this is done though. l

also, what I do it set the light to a gradient rather then a solid color....it may help

I tend to use lights as ranged in internal scenes as well as using gradients. The artist could maybe do with a very low level fill in light set out of camera.

The greatest part of wisdom is learning to develop  the ineffable genius of extracting the "neither here nor there" out of any situation...."

Cool, I've always loved Edvard Munchs'work! Sorry I don't have any lighting advice to offer beyond what has already been posted.