Finished the last few details on the Norns yesterday. I wanted to try a stark contrast between the figures and the backdrop and work with painting the central elements to draw focus while leaving some parts much less detailed.

I painted it using only paynes gray, naphtol red, yellow ochre and white. Pretty much the Zorn pallette - but with a hint of blue from the paynes gray. The red was reserved for the backdrop and a few key items. The skin is a mix of white, paynes gray and ochre making it a desaturated green, that contrasts nicely with the red elements.

I love painting like this. Putting realism to a side and just going with what looks good and frames focus to the important parts of the scene.

Hope you like how it turned out

  • Melnikov Ivan "Nakatan"

    Great idea, gold!

  • Nate Boyles

    So great! I live how much contrast you pring with the single color backdrops with the zorn-esc mini!

    • Mikkel Frederiksen

      I did my best to max out the contrast with this one. Green vs red + saturated vs desaturated.

  • Nate Boyles

    So great! I live how much contrast you pring with the single color backdrops with the zorn-esc mini!

  • Steph.DPLUS

    Vutz Or :)

  • Sergey PopovichenkoPLUS

    I like it!!

  • Bastien Dupont "El_Gwakamol"PLUS

    amazing job on this compo and choice of color !

  • Štěpán Tichý

    Great imagination and colour division. I like how the red background really centres and focuses the bust and the thread wonderfully stands out. Really great stuff.

    • Mikkel Frederiksen

      Thank you .-) Getting the thread to stand out was definately part of my vision for this project. I altso wanted to emphasize a sence og space in the sculpt, by having the red element go from the back og the scene to the front.

  • MarcPLUS

    Génial !

  • Roman LappatPLUS

    A really interesting and artistic interpretation of this great sculpt! I like the contrast that you created here! Keep on happy painting!

  • Carlo

    epic work!

  • vincenzo gambinoPLUS

    gold ...nice

  • Mariano del Olmo

    Gold Mikkel! Great work.

  • Fabrizio SchiragaPLUS

    Gold