Concept picture · not a photo of a printAt 28 mm: 238 mm (9.4 in) tall · 194 × 157 mm footprintThis is a scenery piece: a tall, thin section of an ice and rock wall with a vertical crevice running from the ground to the top. The two halves of the wall stand apart with the gap between them, a passage left by a glacier, widest at the base and narrowing toward the top. Sheer faces of blue-white ice fill most of the surface, banded with thin seams of lighter ice that run down the walls, while rock shows only at the outer edges and in broad, stepped ledges along the sides. The wall is complete and weathered everywhere except the crack, its surfaces rounded and aged. At the base the ice is buried in snow, with chunky fallen ice blocks lying half-merged into the drifts and a shelf of dark rock forming the footing. The piece suits an alpine mountain pass, a frozen gorge, or a glacier route on the table, where it can act as a narrow gateway or a line-of-sight break between sections of a longer wall. The crevice gives infantry and small caravans a single-file route through, while the solid faces stop movement and block sight. The surfaces are broad and the forms chunky, with fine ice seams and snow drifts providing detail for a painter, and the stepped rock ledges help define the edges of the gap. The base is flat and wide, and the sheer walls are tall and thin, so the piece wants a flat bed and firm supports under the overhanging ice shelves at the top of the crevice.
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Licence: Print it ✓ · Remix it ✓ · Sell it ✗
Licence: Print it ✓ · Remix it ✓ · Sell it ✗
Licence: Print it ✓ · Remix it ✓ · Sell it ✗
A tall glacier wall split by a wide crevice, with pale blue ice faces, grey rock ledges, banded ice seams, fallen ice blocks and a snow-covered base. Painted with zenithal priming, washes and drybrush, then sealed and finished with snow tufts.
Zenithal (light from above)Concept colours10 steps · 250 minutes hands-onGuide by @tbrianjonesOpen the guide →