While Egedius and Werenskiold were his biggest masters in shaping Bjarne Ness’s drawing skills, it was Revold who played a key role in refining his color vision. The composer Bjarne Ness, known for works like Gjøglerne and Musikanten, fully blossomed in his use of color after meeting Revold, expressing a rich, clear palette. Although traces of the melancholic tone from his early years still emerged at times, such as in the touching Sunday Afternoon (a children's group under tall trees), it was his admiration for great French painters like Delacroix, Cézanne, and later Seurat and Courbet that deeply influenced his style. Ness felt a particular kinship with Seurat, valuing the mathematical precision and beauty in his work. However, after years of toil and disappointment, he finally arrived in Paris, he was very much captivated by Courbet, who was a completely new revelation to him. Seurat, who sought the perfect and absolute, single-volume mathematics, was his spiritual brother. But Courbet, the primitive, was in connection with the earth's own life, the lush, the healthy, that which could perhaps save him."

- Ole Mæhle