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Full view is duty!

I did paint the whole Landscape and the Castle!



Albert Bierstadt - check out his amazing works:

The work is in Public Domain, according to: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil…

What does that mean?

The intention behind this is to learn from the old masters, Mastercopies are good, but actually there´s no better way of studying them than to get your hands dirty and spend 10 hours

in the image

and paint something that is not there. This time it took me around 20 hours.





Process here:







Actually I´m positively surprised about how well my Process here:Actually I´m positively surprised about how well my

and the

was perceived, thanks so much!

For the Kaiju Fans:

This is part of a study-series, called

(...and other big things

Suggestion for other Kaiju´s or big cinematic - things are welcome as well as also constructive comments!!



I like popculture and I love traditional art, so this project came so naturally to me and since the paintings are public domain, no one was harmed, not even the original paintings!

There is no intention to sell these images, I did them for learning purposes and use them in my classes as well, however, if you want it as a wallpaper, feel free to hit the download-button to get the 2560x1500 px version.

cheers,

fant

■ Copyright notice and disclaimer: - Created by Oliver Wetter / Ars Fantasio. - You are welcome to share my work or repost it, but please don't claim or sell it as your own.

Hayao Miyazaki meets Albert Bierstadt!But, the landscape is heavily based on a painting fromActually the jpegs of this specific work for reference, were in such a bad quality that I had to paint the whole image from scratch - a nice test for me and I created some useful brushes along the way. Since I had no usable hi-res source, I hope you can accept the little flaws in it, most stuff is painted from imagination and my personal interpretation of huge jpeg-artifactsGood part of having to paint the whole thing was that I was able to push it more into a Miyazaki kind of mood and coloring that matches the concept that I originally had in mind.piece