Sørmarka

Side of the wall

outside

Value key

median luma 0.30 to 0.46

Glow

gold: the sun stones, lamplight in the barn

Shape motif

the long low line and the row

Feeling

The last warm hour of a working day on the farm.

Key reference: Østlandet farmland and national-romantic harvest painting; Frozen's 'horizontal amongst the vertical'.

Palette

• #D9A441barley, hay
• #B8873Cstubble, dry grass
• #9E3B2Fbarn red
• #55703Aoak crowns, pasture
• #5A4636dug earth, tarred fences
• #EADDC0farmhouse cream
• #5C8C99the river

Two thirds of the frame is barley ochre and straw; then barn red, oak green, earth umber and cream. Gold is the glow: the sun stones and the barn's lamp. The first one or two colours take half to two thirds of a frame.

Shape motif

The long low line and the row: the barn's ridge, fences, hay racks, furrows and field strips.

Light

Late-afternoon gold, long shadows, dust in the air; showers over the bog. Value key 0.30 to 0.46. Mean saturation may reach 0.46 in the evening.

Plants and ground

Barley and poppies at the field's edge. Stubble, dug soil in rows, packed earth in the yard.

Architecture

A red barn on a stone foot with a ramp, a stabbur on pillars, a cream farmhouse, rail and picket fences, hay racks.

Creatures

Cows, sheep, hens, the farm dog and cat; hares and a fox at the field's edge.

Never

A tall thin building (the windmill on its hill is the one upright).

Transition in and out

Through Sørporten the road turns umber and the milk stand, the spilt churn, is the first story within 40 m. Border: Sørvika, barley meeting marram. Poppy and cornflower stay within 4 m of a wall, a plot or a way.

Proof frame prompt

The prompt that made the frame above. Compose a new one with stylebook prompt eventyrland sormarka scene "...".

Zone: Sørmarka, farmland in late-afternoon harvest light. A long low red barn on a stone foot with a ramp to its hay door, a small storehouse on pillars, a cream farmhouse, hay drying on long racks in rows across a stubble field, striped fields of barley, rail fences, a windmill on a low hill, big round oak crowns, a slow river; long shadows; on a far hill a ring of standing stones catching gold light, the one glowing accent. 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 farm road with a hen. Two thirds of the picture is barley ochre and straw; then barn red, oak green, earth umber, cream. Shape motif: long low horizontals and parallel rows.