740 results found for “dinterdum*”

The Stark sigilThe direwolf, and no explanation needed for anybody who will recognise it. It is modelled in the round as a full head, jaws open and turned to one side, with the mane cut into overlapping rows of pointed fur that sweep back...

Detail, which is the Norse partNorse metalwork liked a worked surface, and this ring follows that. The wolf is a full head carved in the round, the fur cut in fine strokes across the face and then flowing in long locks down both shoulders...

A pack, not a lone wolfAlmost every wolf image sold is a single animal. This one shows three, and that changes the subject entirely.A lone wolf reads as independence. A group reads as family, which is what a wolf pack actually is: a breeding...

Red in a black and white imageThe colour choice is doing everything here, and it is not arbitrary.The picture is greyscale apart from the eyes, so red is the only colour anywhere in the frame. It is the reason warning signs, emergency equipment and...

The eyes are the pieceA wolf's face out of a dark blue winter wood, and everything about this image rests on that one detail. The picture is worked almost entirely in deep blue and near black, with snow falling through bare branches, so the...

Restrained rather than dramaticThree wolves in a drift of pale mist, one with its head thrown back mid howl and the other two standing quiet beside it, rendered soberly, without the heavy contrast and saturated night sky that usually accompanies the subject.That restraint is...

Fog does the workThe wolf is emerging from mist rather than standing sharp against a background, and that softness is the whole character of the piece.Soft-edged images are considerably easier to place than hard-edged ones. There is no strong outline to clash with the...

Play, not conflictTwo wolves messing about on snow. It is a rare subject in wolf art, which runs heavily toward menace, and that alone makes it worth having.It is also accurate. Adult wolves play throughout their lives, not just as pups, with bows and...

What this is, honestlyA white wolf beside a Native American woman, painted in a romantic style rather than a documentary one.It is worth being clear about that. The image belongs to a long tradition of European and American artists imagining Indigenous life rather than...

A black wolf in bright snowThe setting does most of the work. A dark animal against fresh snow and pale birch trunks has about as much tonal separation as a photograph can give you, so the outline stays clean and the coat keeps the...

Almost nobody sees this sky any moreThe star field here is not exaggerated. It is roughly what the sky looks like without artificial light, and it is a view that has quietly disappeared from most of the world.A global survey of night sky brightness...

The ridge is not artistic licenceWolves really do travel high ground, and there is nothing romantic in the reason. Ridgelines, frozen rivers, game trails and, unhelpfully for them, human roads all offer the same thing: firm footing and no obstacles.A wolf covers serious distance...

The tree tells you how big the wolf isThat is doing more work than it appears. An animal alone in a frame has no size at all; put a known object beside it and the scale locks in.It matters here because people get wolves...

Let it choose the paletteA piece this loud is not going to fit into an existing scheme. It will decide one, and the useful move is to let it.Pick two colours out of the canvas and repeat them elsewhere in the room, in cushions,...

Fantasy, and openly soA girl's face fills the centre panel, pale and freckled beneath a beaded crown of feathers and roses, her cream and magenta hair spilling across a background of deep red, teal and gold. A howling wolf stands on each of the...