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Over the weekend was the opening to "Fantastical Fauna and Flora" at Gallery Nucleus, in Alhambra California. Featuring artwork from Mall, Nicole Gustafsson, Lorena Alvarez Gomez, and Amelie Flechais. The entire show is now online at Gallery Nucleus: here Beautiful Bizarre did a lovely writeup on the show, visit their website to read about it: here Below are all my paintings I created for the exhibit. I love making up homes and spaces for creatures, and that was the focus of my pieces. I revisited a lot of animals I haven't drawn in a long time - like iguana's, bats, and wombats. Many of these creatures I was obsessed with as a kid and really fun to draw them again! The Shiba dog reading, ferrets shopping, and the iguana were also influenced a by pets I had through out my life (or in the case of the Shiba is modeled after our pup Toshi!). "Bakers Den" Gouache, ink on paper | 10.75 x 8.75 (image size) ©Nicole Gustafsson Available at Gallery Nucleus "Feline Florists" Gouache, ink on paper | 10.75 x 8.75 (image size) ©Nicole Gustafsson Available at Gallery Nucleus "Night Reader" Gouache, ink on paper | 6x8 (image size) ©Nicole Gustafsson Sold "The Book Keeper" Gouache, ink on paper | 10.75 x 8.75 (image size) ©Nicole Gustafsson Sold "The Crystal Collector" Gouache, ink on paper | 6.75 x 6.75 (image size) ©Nicole Gustafsson Available at Gallery Nucleus "The Lantern Lighter" Gouache, ink on paper | 10.75 x 8.75 (image size) ©Nicole Gustafsson Available at Gallery Nucleus "The Merchant" Gouache, ink on paper | 6.75 x 6.75 (image size) ©Nicole Gustafsson Available at Gallery Nucleus "The Star Gazer" Gouache, ink on paper | 7 x 11 (image size) ©Nicole Gustafsson Available at Gallery Nucleus "The Wandering Isle" Gouache, ink on paper | 6.75 x 6.75 (image size) ©Nicole Gustafsson Sold "Thimbleberry Pickers" Gouache, ink on paper | 6.75 x 10.75 (image size) ©Nicole Gustafsson Available at Gallery Nucleus
Native Hawaiian artist Noah Harders creates masks of shells, bones, and flowers worn in his photographic self-portraits.
Artist Jon Ching strikes a balance between texture and color in his meticulously detailed oil paintings that make fantastic creatures—owls with plumes of mushrooms and fuzzy molds, seahorses sprouting leafy twigs, and fish with striped tulip fins—appear natural in their environments. This vague distinction between the realistic and surreal saturates Ching’s body of work, which imagines a magical ecosystem that visualizes the symbiotic relationships between flora and fauna. “I am inspired by the worldview of many Indigenous cultures that revere the natural world and see god in every aspect of our living world,” he tells Colossal. More
Flora White ~ Merfolk ~ 1913 ~ via
Artist Jon Ching strikes a balance between texture and color in his meticulously detailed oil paintings that make fantastic creatures—owls with plumes of mushrooms and fuzzy molds, seahorses sprouting leafy twigs, and fish with striped tulip fins—appear natural in their environments. This vague distinction between the realistic and surreal saturates Ching’s body of work, which imagines a magical ecosystem that visualizes the symbiotic relationships between flora and fauna. “I am inspired by the worldview of many Indigenous cultures that revere the natural world and see god in every aspect of our living world,” he tells Colossal. More
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Die Serie „Flora“ ist eine Reihe von fünf Fotografien, die inspiriert wurden durch einen Besuch in dem berühmten Gefängnis Alcatraz in San Francisco. Vor allem die Natur auf der Gefängnisinsel hat mich fasziniert. In der Serie habe ich Pflanzen von dort mit Frauenfiguren und Textilien zusammengebracht. Die Serie wirkt ikonenhaft, religiös, inszeniert und puppenartig.
Artist Jon Ching strikes a balance between texture and color in his meticulously detailed oil paintings that make fantastic creatures—owls with plumes of mushrooms and fuzzy molds, seahorses sprouting leafy twigs, and fish with striped tulip fins—appear natural in their environments. This vague distinction between the realistic and surreal saturates Ching’s body of work, which imagines a magical ecosystem that visualizes the symbiotic relationships between flora and fauna. “I am inspired by the worldview of many Indigenous cultures that revere the natural world and see god in every aspect of our living world,” he tells Colossal. More
Australia-based photographer Steve Axford loves to travel to the remotest corners of the earth, capturing the lives of people, animals, and most importantly, fungi. His fascinating photographs of the diverse world of fungi seem to picture a fantastic expedition to some distant alien world.
Spanish illustrator Vorja Sánchez (previously) continues to plumb his imagination to create wildly original drawings and paintings. Constellations of real and invented wildlife, plants, and mysterious critters that seem to be a combination of the two, coexist in the artist’s colorful multi-media illustrations. Sánchez shares his work on Instagram and Facebook, where he also provides details on works for sale and updates on collaborative projects and murals. More
This week, we’ve got a super sized epic creature...The Amorphophallus Titanum has the largest unbranched inflorescence (or spadix) in the world; it can reach over three meters (or nearly 10 feet) long! The inflorescence happens to be the large stem in the middle of the flower... The Amorphophallus Titanum starts out as a large tuberous root called corm, which can weigh up to 200lbs. The corm grows and stores energy for up to ten years before it flowers. While developing, it can grow up to several inches a day, ultimately reaching up to nine feet and looking very similar to an ear of corn. When growth slows to one inch a day it is ready to bloom. It blooms at night and becomes so hot from the process that it steams; a very unusual feature of this flower is that it heats itself. The spathe (flower petals) on the inside are deep purplish-red and the inflorescence is yellow. While blooming the smell this plant produces is akin to rotten egg, meat or fish, some people even say it smells like cheese. This smell is made to attract carcass-eating insects, as they crawl into the male flower the outer leaf closes on them. The male then discharges pollen on the insects then the leaves open up. Now when the insects investigate the female flowers they will fertilize them with the pollen stuck on them. To help prevent the bugs fertilizing other males, the females bloom after the males. After being fertilized the plant grows bright red fruit the size of olives then three days later the flower dies. However, the single leaf produced by the tuber grows into a tree-like plant that reaches up to 20ft tall and has a foliage spread of 15ft across, this allows the corm to begin storing energy again to be deployed years later. The Amorphophallus Titanum is rarely seen flowering, but when it does it is announced by keepers and a showing is planned. There was a showing of a Amorphophallus Titanum on April 23rd 2011 at the Botanical Garden University of Basel and people held their noses closed as they watched this beautiful flower bloom! Another reason it is so rare is because it only grows in the Sumatra rainforest (Indonesia) on limestone hills and only if there is an opening in the bush for sun. After seeing some pictures of this plant you may think “Geez that plant looks very phallic…” you are not the only one! Its scientific name “Amorphophallus Titanum” means “huge deformed penis”. Sir David Attenborough was aware of this and felt is was awkward calling it a huge deformed penis in Latin on his TV show “The Private Life of Plants” so he invented the nickname “Titan Arum”. In Indonesia the common name for it is “Bunga Bangkai” which roughly translates to “Corpse Plant” and that is where it gets its second common nickname. The size, smell and lifespan of this flower are the reasons I deem this flower EPIC! **You may also say “Hey isn't this an Epic Creature Blog, why is there a plant?” I would answer by quoting Wikipedia… “A creature is an organism [emphasis added]. The term is derived from the widespread historical belief that all such things were created, as by a deity or deities. The word is generally used to refer to non-human animals but does include humans.” Now that I cleared that up, in the future I may review creatures alive now, creatures from the past or even mythological creatures! **
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Die Serie „Flora“ ist eine Reihe von fünf Fotografien, die inspiriert wurden durch einen Besuch in dem berühmten Gefängnis Alcatraz in San Francisco. Vor allem die Natur auf der Gefängnisinsel hat mich fasziniert. In der Serie habe ich Pflanzen von dort mit Frauenfiguren und Textilien zusammengebracht. Die Serie wirkt ikonenhaft, religiös, inszeniert und puppenartig.
To think any one of these lifeforms exists in our galaxy, let alone on our planet, simply boggles the mind. Photographer Steve Axford lives and works in the Northern Rivers area of New South Wales in Australia where he spends his time documenting the living world around him, often traveling to remote locations to seek out rare animals, plants, and even people. But it’s his work tracking down some of the world’s strangest and brilliantly diverse mushrooms and other fungi that has resulted in an audience of online followers who stalk his work on Flickr and SmugMug to see what he’s captured next. More
They start out all fun and colorful, and the world just seems amaaaaazing and full of beautiful creatures.
It's wet in the middle With a shell around it It's called life It goes wherever it wants to Don't try to predict it, Then you'd offend it, It's MEANT to surprise Rescue me form level-head-ness And the un-necessary luxry of being calm She's got dark hair On her head; Blonde on her arms; She sneaks up from behind, Come on, You deserve it! Nature is ancient, But surprises us all Nature is ancient, But surprises us all
