Winterfell art

The very first image I did for this Season: I was asked to make a concept of a new courtyard featuring a big bakery. Refugees are seeking shelter in Winterfell while the Battlepreparations begin. The set was later scaled down - however alot of the elements stayed the way I concepted them. In this season the set of Winterfell was massivly enhanced Client: Karakter, HBO.

Winterfell is the ancestral castle and seat of power of House Stark and is considered to be the capital of the north. It is in the center of the northernmost province of the Seven Kingdoms, on the kingsroad that runs from Storm's End to the Wall. It is situated at the eastern edge of the wolfswood, north of the western branch of the White Knife and Castle Cerwyn. Winterfell is south of the northern mountains and southwest of Long Lake,[1] one hundred leagues (three hundred miles) southeast…

Watercolor painting of Winterfell Castle

Winterfell

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The second season of the HBO series Game Of Thrones has begun and each time I watch it, I am mesmerized by the opening title sequence. I wanted to share it with my readers and in doing so, came across two wonderful articles I'm cobbling together. The first is an article on The Hollywood Reporter which features an interview with Angus Wall, who designed the sequence and titles (and long ago, in another lifetime, worked with me as the editor on one of my tv commercials). You may recognize his…

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