Subject: Misappropriating Art: Among the Pernese Alps
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Posted on: 2019-01-21 11:45:00 UTC
With sincerest apologies to Albert Bierstadt, whose painting Among the Bernese Alps I heard of and decided had to be a typo.
Also with direct inspiration from this image by, uh... 'MrGro', apparently, and thematic inspiration from Jeff Bennett's War on Kinkade series.
hS
I want this on my wall. ^_^
This is, what, the High Reaches, you reckon? Rough terrain, primarily coniferous trees indicating higher latitude/altitude climate...?
~Neshomeh
It would also make sense timeline-wise: if the colonists were going to name anything 'the Pernese Alps', it would be the big mountain range they first settled on. (Of course, if they were American, they'd probably be the Pernese Rockies, with Benden being in the Pernese Appalachians.)
I did think very much of you when deciding to post it. ;) Sadly I think the base image is a bit low res to be worth printing out, and I can't find a better version. Still, it worked much better than I expected!
hS
Did you put this together with Photoshop? I love how the dragons feel like they're part of the original painting. :)
My own contribution to fandom art: I call this one "Eve of War". We had to create a fake landscape as part of my Photoshop class last year, so naturally I had to do something related to Gallifrey. please ignore the obvious errors it was one of the first things I did and I should really retouch it but I'm too lazy to
I needed something with layers that I could access at work from an undisclosed location, and I'd at least heard of it, so. The reason they're so small is that it was all done with the standard paintbrush - any larger and you'd start seeing block-filled areas, which never look good. ^_^
I don't think yours is as bad as you think. The saucer works very well in the sky, just as the TARDIS does on the beach; the sea and sky go together well too. The tree is kind of jarring, but silver leaves, right? I'm sure I remember Eight going on about silver leaves.
You've got a few artefacts around the islands, but the easiest way to eliminate those would be to shrink the image slightly. ;) After that, I'd mostly be looking at the shadows - under a burnt orange sky, I think they'd take a different colour to standard black. I would say highlights as well (eg, on the leaves), but if the Doctor says they're silver, that must mean they appear silver even under Gallifreyan light, so that works.
hS