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FLORA vs. FAUNA, Underworld IV
Published: 2009-07-10 02:45:44 +0000 UTC; Views: 24554; Favourites: 933; Downloads: 2603
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FLORA vs FAUNA, (UNDERWORLD IV)18" X 18" Acrylic on wood panel
This my vision of the life that thrives in the tiny worlds which surround us, but are also hidden from us.
This one illustrates the occasional dominion of plants over animals, hence the title; "FLORA vs FAUNA"
The scrotal looking plants in the painting are California Pitcher plants, also known as "COBRA LILIES". These clever plant adaptations entice their insect pray into a narrow mouth, heading toward a digestive "pot" with inward pointing hairs, preventing the insect from reversing out, sort of like a lobster trap.
The big red "flower" is modeled after an Anthurium. However the stamen of this particular Anthurium is patterned after a "Sticky Trap" carnivorous plant, (the Drosera Capensis). But of course, Anthuriums don't have tendrillic appendages which capture hornets either. (But wouldn't it be wonderful if they did!)
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Comments: 98
Wow. Someday I hope to be able to afford some of your work, I'd love to support you. You are the first artist I ever really got into and to this day, I still absolutely love it. My favorite piece for some reason is still your "God" painting.
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not enough people think about the wars and strange religions/ways of the tiny critters that live beneath our feet...
but i do. im willing to bet they do too, i used to watch insects a lot in the local woods, their day to day activities are complex and amazingly diverse. certain species of beetle have meetings!
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Brilliant stuff. Looking forward to seeing what you do next.
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Really good work. Congratulations to the DD.
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Those pitcher plants are absolutely beautiful. this whole piece is just amazing. Mind = blown. Gorgeous.
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very good overall dynamic to this picture.. somehow reminds me of good old hieronymus bosch
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I want lessons! Really, your style is amazing, thought and creativity outstanding!
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This piece is being featured here: [link] If you want your piece removed please let me know. Thank you.
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this is incredible , pardon me for saying so but many people would consider this a trip, and would take certain hallucinogenics to understand and see these things .lol yeah i know.
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Too many gorgeous designs in this to pick a favorite...I love the gooey mass of eyes, the pinkish human-faced larva, the human-eyed slug/worm, the fuzzy caterpillar in the lower left, all those cobra lilies...
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Congrats on a well-deserved DD for this one!
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" I don't believe in evil, I believe only in Horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of Horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots." -(Isak Dinesen)
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What a beautiful painting! And very educational as well.
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Absolutely Awesome!!! Nothing else can be said...
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WEIRD! It's like David Attenborough's "Life in the Undergrowth" meets Lovecraft meets... I dunno... a bad acid trip?
Still, this is a lovely piece.
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amazing detail! i liked looking at it for a while
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hmmmmm I have no idea insects could be so dangerous
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i love the level of detail. when i first glanced at it, it reminded me a lot of Graeme Base. amazing artwork.
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You're so talented! I love how they are all so expressive, the shiny textures, colours. This is striking and datk too. Congrats on the DD.
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this is wonderful!! love the bugs.. 
im guessing u got like a thousand or more messages to reply to..
and congratulations on the DD..
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Tis fab!
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Super!
It reminds me of the illustrations featured in "The Butterfly Ball & The Grasshopper Feast".
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First congratulations to the DD!
And i really like the way you painted the wings there!!
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wow,very detailed, i can't belive this was done in with a paintbrush(i'm in middle school,no ecaxctly a painter) great job deserved the feature
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Wow.....
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Rather than simply comment with my usual awe, I thought I would do you a better service by submitting this work to the dA moderators as a potential Daily Deviation. I'm glad they featured it, Robert - your work is too cool to be obscure here!
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