Villa Bettoni inspired design

Design inspired by the ever-so-lovely Rococo Villa Bettoni near Bogliaco on Lago di Garda in Italy. I took some artistic license…

I’m stealing ideas from the Impressionist painters now. I like how they didn’t do the entire color mixing on their palettes, but partially on the canvas. If get up close, you can see they painted two or three colors streaked together - and your eyes “mix” the colors when you stand back looking at the finished painting. And I particularly like how Degas used pastels on his oil paintings.

I spent some extra time on this. I got it made - but felt “meh” about it. So I fiddled with it some more - mostly colors, shadows, and shading (and a little tinkering with the height map). I really wanted the colors to have some variation so that the eye can “mix” them when looking at the finished design.

And the flowers to look real and not cartoonish. I also wanted the colors to pop, not be grayish or washed out, or blacked out. I’ve struggled with this since the beginning. When you add shading and shadows - everything gets gray and black. To make the flowers (pansies in particular) pop, I blended a mask of them (subtract - controlled by the slider for opacity) to reduce the shading on them from the AO node.

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