The first thing I see in the morning is the light hitting the trunk of a pine tree just outside my window. I keep my curtains open for just that and surprisingly often I wake up early enough to see a purple hue, slowly shifting towards red, then orange and yellow in a magical display, until it fades into just some light on a tree and i get on with my day. They say darkest dark is just before the dawn, meaning that with troubles in life things will seem worse before they get better. Change is a great theme in my work, especially in my paintings. This one is about the dark as much as of the color that comes out of it.

Dawn digital painting 2022 Mikko Lyytinen