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Monday, January 12, 2015

Nepenthes- Painting from Spring 2014






I did the usual thing: acrylic paint on canvas with black and white ink pen added in at the end. If you're wondering about the name, "Nepenthes" is part of the scientific name for a carnivorous plant (it seems I have a theme starting: "Sundew" is the common name for another carnivorous plant, and the name of another painting I made). This particular swampy plant has bucket-like leaves that collect rainfall. The water in these buckets attracts insects that come to drink and are trapped inside of the tubular leaves. They are slowly but surely devoured by the plant. Hey, everybody needs protein.