Giant Guardian of the Desert Sunset

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A surreal, highly detailed, fantastical oil painting of a vast desert landscape at sunset, featuring a colossal, ancient, stone-like giant in the right foreground, wearing a tall, conical hat and a heavy, textured garment, sitting with a gnarled staff in his hands. He looks contemplatively to the left. In the left background, two smaller, cloaked figures stand on a rocky outcrop, one holding a shepherd's crook, gazing towards the large, setting sun on the horizon. The sun emits a powerful, hazy yellow glow that radiates into the turquoise and teal sky. The expansive desert floor stretches into the distance, dotted with towering, dark, flat-topped mesas and strange, sparse vegetation. The foreground is bathed in warm, golden light, contrasting with the cooler blue and green hues of the far distance. The painting style is reminiscent of Zdzisław Beksiński or HR Giger, with a sense of immense scale, desolation, and mysterious narrative.