Before a Central Altar Laden with Mysterious Artifacts

Before a central altar laden with mysterious artifacts, two blueticks maintain a formal, symmetrical vigil in a three-quarter front view: one, its predominantly black head and ears stark against a heavily ticked body, gazes with alert focus, while the other, a blue ticked hound with tan points, exhibits a pleading melancholy look from beneath long pendulous ears that reach its nose, its strong muscular hindquarters poised, the entire scene, including these hounds and the altar's mysterious contents, rendered in faceted polygonal surfaces and bathed in high-key bright, even light dramatically sculpted by neutral-temperature uplighting.