Fairy Tales and Other Stories

Story challenge - make a palette inspired by this scene from "Northern Lights" ( I think its called "The golden compass" in america).

It features Iorek Byrnson - a "panserbjorn" or armoured bear - an extra huge, fierce, intelligent polar bear, who has been enslaved because his captors took away his armour. A panserbjorn 's armour is magical - it is their soul -for want of a better explanation - and in this scene Iorek has broken into a house to reclaim his armour and free himself from slavery.

"The sentry who had followed Iorek Byrnson into the house came running out, and stood to face the cellar window, rifle at his shoulder, and then the window tore open completely, and out there climbed Iorek Byrnison, the bear in armour.

Without it he was formidable. With it, he was terrifying. It was rust-red, and crudely riveted together: great sheets and plates of dented discoloured metal that scraped and screeched as they rode over one another. The helmet was pointed like his muzzle, with slits for eyes, and it left the lower part of his jaw bare for tearing and biting.

The sentry fired several shots, and the policemen leveled their weapons too, but Iorek Byrnison merely shook the bullets off like rain-drops, and lunged forward in a screech and clang of metal before the sentry could escape and knocked him to the ground."

My first attempt:

ooooooooh. good one. i'll get on it as soon as we get back from the pool...

couldn't wait. i did it first. now the pool. :)

Hmm... I should be going but this story challenge is just too fun (plus, I really love the book)!

I love these russet/rust colors (therefore having too much fun to stop with my first :)!!!