Hello,

I'm happy to show you a new personal piece: The Spirit of the Forest. Beautifully sculpted by Olivier Villoingt. I felt in love with this bust when I saw it the first time. For me this creature shows a majestic, intelligent, quiet, wise and mystic atmosphere. All things that I also feel in old forests. That’s why I wanted to support this effect with my color scheme. I tried to go to a natural but also bit dark and cold color scheme. I still wanted to use decent highlights to make it interesting and standing out. For that I used brighter colors for the leaf in the beard, some shiny metal rings and the turquoise eyes.

Another important piece here was the frame. That was very needed to complete the whole piece. I thought a while if I could go with this one, because it’s maybe a little too big, but I like it for the moment.

It's a hard time for some of the last big nature forests. Thousands of fires in Siberia and Amazon. Home for millions of animals. I hope more people and policians can find the joy, importance and see the beautiful nature in these landscapes. Hopefully they also decide that it's worth to safe and keep them instead the one time profit. I know this is only a miniature, but yeah I wanted to lose a few words about this topic, because it's important for me and I also connected a little bit of that in the painting of this miniature.

Thanks for every vote or comment.

Best regards
Oliver

  • Darren_Han

    Amazing work！love your way of color use

  • Bran

    Très belle peinture pour un sujet primordial aujourd'hui qui nous concerne tous.....

  • eric wolfsPLUS

    an absolutly amazing paint. Great work ! Gold, of course

  • Gabriele Leni

    Amazing work !

  • Clive Jackson

    Stunning work!

  • Richard SharpPLUS

    Your work on this made me order it immediately. Great work Oliver

  • Martin Vermeulen (Nighthawk)

    Beautiful striking work! I really like the serenity and his somewhat sad appearance,as if he's struggling to restrain some ancient power. I think the frame works very well btw.

  • Roman LappatPLUS

    Really beautiful work on this amazing, characterful sculpt, Oliver!

  • Gerry Larkin

    Great work and great words and so so true!! !! Oliver were can i get this bust from?

    • Oliver "HonourGuard" SpäthPLUS

      Thank you Gerry. You can find the sculpts from Olivier here: https://www.etsy.com/shop/oliviervilloingt/

  • Matt DiPietro

    Beautifully expressive. Deserves a my but for editors. Great work!

  • Alex ✍

    Fantastic! Love it ❤️

  • RUSTO art and craft show Fabrizio Russo

    Love it! Gold

  • Matthieu Roueche - "Blabla"

    Love this bust and the way you painted it! Gold!

  • Oliver "HonourGuard" SpäthPLUS

    Thanks a lot for all the nice comments. It's a great motivation :)

  • Gerry Larkin

    Oliver. thank you for the ordering details only 2 left!!

  • Sergio Calvo Rubio

    super amazing!

  • John Cordiano

    An amazing piece. I really love this one, and the frame works so well with it.

  • John Margiotta "BloodASmedium"PLUS

    Gold