Nordalen
- Side of the wall
- outside
- Value key
- median luma 0.40 to 0.58
- Glow
- ember: the smokehouse, the kiln, the brazier, the lighthouse lamp
- Shape motif
- the slender upright and its mirror image
Feeling
A clear cold morning by the lake, with smoke from one chimney.
Key reference: A Vestland lake hamlet with naust; Nordlys's fire against the cold.
Palette
Two thirds of the frame is lake blue and cool birch green; then birch white, deep tar brown and a little buttercup yellow. Ember is the glow: the smokehouse, the kiln, the king's brazier and the lighthouse lamp. The first one or two colours take half to two thirds of a frame.
Shape motif
The slender upright and its mirror image: birch trunks, naust gables, the lighthouse and the masts, each doubled in the water.
Light
A cool, clear morning, still water, mist on the lake at dawn; no sunset colours, never an orange sky by day. Value key 0.40 to 0.58.
Plants and ground
Buttercups in drifts, and birch. A cool green meadow in level strokes, grey shingle at the water.
Architecture
Tall narrow naust of tarred upright planks on stone feet with turf roofs, a smokehouse, a white lighthouse with a red band, the stave church ruin. Slate teal, never black.
Creatures
Gulls, the white water-horse (a faint cyan sheen), the cat at the gutting bench, ravens, Trollfar.
Never
An orange sky by day.
Transition in and out
Through Nordporten the first sight is the old pine and the watchtower; the tipped cart on the verge is the first story. Soft borders to Fjellfoten (birch to old forest, with a marker of pale lake stone on this side) and to Fjellet, where the border runs through red heather and Nordalen must keep its birch green as the larger share.
Proof frame prompt
The prompt that made the frame above. Compose a new one with stylebook prompt eventyrland nordalen scene "...".
Zone: Nordalen, the summer valley of the north, on a cool clear morning, no sunset colours. A wide mirror-still lake fills half the picture; slender white birches; on a stony shore three small boathouses of dark tarred wood with turf roofs on stone feet, nets drying on poles, a rowing boat pulled up, a thin column of smoke from a smokehouse with an ember-orange glow in its hatch, the one glowing accent; far off on a headland a white lighthouse with a red band; blue mountains behind as flat hazy shapes. A small princess with curly brown hair, a gold crown, a red cape and a backpack, tiny in the frame and seen from behind, on the shore path. Two thirds of the picture is lake blue and cool birch green; then birch white, deep tar brown, a little buttercup yellow. Shape motif: tall slender verticals and their mirror image in the water.The scene that proved the zone card. Stand-in princess.