Snowy village with aurora sky

A compact cluster of log cabins hugs a gentle valley, presented like a map vignette with warm windows and lanterns offering homely points of focus under a vast sky. The composition is formatted for a 16:9 landscape crop with a medium-wide framing that keeps the village in the lower third and a broad expanse of sky above for aurora display. Surfaces are unlettered and clean, with rooflines, paths, and field edges forming ornamental abstract lines for legibility against the sky. Snow blankets wooden shingles and piled stone, while frost-scoured ice frames a small frozen lake in the foreground. Textures emphasize timber grain, soft powder snow, and glassy ice, rendered with painterly brushwork and subtle gouache grain. The aurora swirls across the upper canvas in ribbons of deep blue #0B3D91 and cool cyan #78C6FF, balanced by warm amber #FFD89B in window glow and lantern haze. Lighting is overall cool with warm accents, creating gentle separation between forms and a soft halo around windows and lanterns. Depth is moderate with crisp cabin edges in the near plane and softer, misted pines toward the horizon. A wooden sled and a glowing lantern serve as story cues near a path leading into the scene. Gentle drifting snow and the flowing motion of the aurora add quiet energy while preserving the calm, map-like mood.