Epic Fantasy Hourglass Desert Matte Painting

kunge-fantasy. A dramatic epic fantasy matte painting in warm golden sunset light, painterly digital illustration technique with rich detail. A colossal, ornate antique hourglass, its wood and tarnished brass fittings intricately detailed, stands upright on a stone plinth in the middle of a vast, barren desert landscape, long dramatic shadows stretching across the sand. Inside the hourglass, instead of sand, the upper chamber holds a cluster of full, detailed miniature mountain ranges, complete with tiny snow-capped peaks, dark forests, and a thin silver river, precariously balanced. One mountain near the narrow glass neck is caught mid-collapse, crumbling into fine rocky dust as it tumbles down through the neck, emerging on the other side already reformed into a small, freshly grown miniature mountain landing atop a growing pile accumulating in the lower chamber. At the base of the hourglass, for scale, a single small robed traveler stands with a wooden walking staff, looking up at the immense structure towering far above them. Warm dramatic sunset lighting, long golden-orange shadows across the sand, richly painted atmospheric haze in the distance, epic monumental scale contrast between the tiny traveler and the towering hourglass, awe-inspiring and contemplative mood, wide vertical epic composition. Negative prompt: photorealistic photographic look, 3d render sterile texture, flat cartoon coloring, deformed anatomy, extra limbs, blurry, low resolution, jpeg artifacts, watermark, text, logo, duplicate objects, glitch artifacts, hourglass filled with actual sand, mountains looking like static rocks instead of detailed miniature landscapes, modern clothing on the traveler