Old News

A lone figure stands on a grassy cliff under a windswept tree, gazing across a narrow river toward jagged, shadowed mountains. Rising from the valley floor is a towering plume of smoke curling into the sky, its billows forming a horizontal crossbar near the top—a surreal, almost sacred shape. Rendered in loose, sketchy linework with soft digital brushstrokes, the muted palette of slate blues, deep greens, and smoky grays creates a brooding, contemplative mood. The composition, with its strong vertical axis countered by the lone silhouette, hints at themes of wonder and foreboding. There’s a subtle nod to graphic novel atmospherics and Romantic landscape painting, inviting a quiet, uneasy awe.