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luciole — Meat and Poison
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Don't accept her bouquet..Please tell me your story about this painting.
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whoa!!! this is awesome. lovely use of colors
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it is a really beautiful painting, but....her face... i don't like it, someway it doesnt fit the picture
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she lives in deep within the forest ,but just like the forest she to is dangerous and mysterious.Only the dammed can hear her cries now,she is woman and hell has no fury like a woman's scorn.She will lure you away and take your soul so that she will never be alone.
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did you like my little introduction to the picture?
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Ooh such a beautiful painting! Now, with the clues you've given the audience: "Meat and Poison; and Don't accept her bouquet." My interpretation of it is this:
She is becoming a part of the tree that is guarding the venus fly traps and she is luring in the butterflies using the scent of her bouquet. Her bouquet is the poison because beautiful things in nature are very likely to be poisonous, and she and the bouquet is beautiful... but she is luring in creatures to feed the venus fly traps and in doing so is forgetting pieces of true identity and so is dissolving into this destructive nature.
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the colors itself tells the story, taking the white boughet seems inocent and good. on the other hand the red leaking out of the bouquet screams out danger
other than that the venus fly traps tells me that if you take the white flowers you will fall into a trap
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It reminds me of One Hundred Years of Solitude from Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Totally magical Realism. It's very captivating.
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I'm too tired to come up with a story. @__@ But the image certainly is lovely. <3 I love all the butterflies. >w<
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The flowers she's holding if consumed give eternal bliss and happiness but if you are blissful and calm you are not able to return from the spot she stands so the flytraps eventually consume you but you aren't bothered by it. Or something like that.
It's a beautiful painting. Very soft and fluid.
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of course!
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She's an illusion created to lure in prey by all the venus fly traps. Maybe she turns into an ever larger one.
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she is not, in fact, a princess. she is of no high-borne descent. what she is, is a peasant girl who angered a forest spirit. she did not spurn his affections for he had none for her, she took nothing from him for he views nothing as his. no, she laughed at him. he was so offended at her disrespect of one as old as he that he trapped her feet on the tree she stood. seeing her like that amused him and he would visit her to watch her in sorrow, bringing gowns and other finery stolen from trading caravans. the only things that made her smile were the butterflies all around. they taught her secrets and magic. using this power, she trapped the forest spirit in a bouquet of white flowers. they grew into her hands and she sapped the power of the spirit into herself. it twisted in this strange prison it found itself and contaminated her mind, soul, and heart. she is now worse than the one who trapped her. yes, she is still part of the tree. the butterflies did not know how to free her but she created a companion spell to the one she used to trap the spirit. when the flowers are taken from her, the one who takes them will be trapped with her, their strength draining into her through the plants. she would not ever be free, but where she is she will be the most powerful thing alive. until the forest burns at the end of the world and universe, she would not be destroyed. she is now nothing but a beautiful leach in fine silk.
princesses are overrated.
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Latika, haunter of the jungle forests of coastal Malaysia, is a lonely but angry spirit who was killed when her lover abandoned her to man-eating plants, preferring to save his own hide rather than putting himself at risk by trying to help her.
Since then, she has wandered amongst the trees seeking vengeance and luring any foolish passerby with her enticing beauty and flowers. Her melancholy is often noticed, and some people feel compelled to help her, especially since it's as simple as taking some flowers from her hands.
Too late do they notice it's their fates she holds in her hands well.
I love the colors here. Your paintings are so smooth.
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That's a very lovely revenge story.
XD I like the little detail about Malaysia too.. cos that's where I'm from XDDD
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+ the souls she captures with her flowers transformed into butterflies, leading more victims to their untimely deaths.
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To me, she looks somewhere between girlhood and womanhood- she was at that in between age when she entered the forest and became trapped there. She knew the woods were forbidden, but she was arrogant. Now, she's frozen both in place and time and she's both mourning and bitter. Take her bouquet and you become one of her butterflies- cursed to flutter about her with a beauty that disguises the anger and treachery below her surface, while beyond the woods life and the world continues without you.
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Wow, we're getting some pretty awesome stories in here 
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You're welcome.
I know you have no idea who I am, but I saw you at Katsucon. One of your prints is going out in the mail tomorrow as a present for a friend (and the other five are going on my wall!)
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Ooh! Thanks for your support
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Keep it up! I hope you're still sharing your gorgeous art with us for years to come.
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God willing I'll be there again at Katsucon 2010 ^_^
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I think she walked into the forest to pick some flowers as she was walking she felt something watching her like the forest was alive. Spooked she she didn't watch what she picked only wanting to get out and falling into a trap vines rose up from the ground to capture and imprison her, the butterflies try with all there might to release the vines and free her from the forest but it grew flytraps to destroy them.
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Reading the views is almost as enjoyable as seeing this again. You do paint excellent stories, you know.
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I know! Some of these stories are better than my original concept XD I think I'm gonna just leave it open for interpretation
This isn't actually done by the way.. I'll keep messing with it, I just wanted more ideas and fresh looks.
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It almost reminds me of a Madonna piece, with her demeanor and the halo behind her.
She looks extreme sad. For some reason I thinking of lovers. They were suppose to meet in the woods, and she was killed. Her spirit never found her love, the white flower was all that was left of her spirit. Even the woods try to warn who ever becomes drawn by the red strings of fate by the venus fly traps eating the butterflies. Never pick strange flowers(especially men)!
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She is beauty.
She is alluring.
She is nature.
She is the reason little lost kids are never found in the woods.
She is why natural catastrophes are the worst.
She is why you must never eat anything wild no matter how tempting it looks.
May I please write a story about her.
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Sure
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This is so different from your usual work. I love it just as much.
As for her story...
A girl was once born in a village, so hideous even her own mother turned away from her in disgust. She grew up tormented by people's stares and comments. She knew no love.
She even considered ending her own life. She went into the forest, aiming to escape from the cruelty of people. There she met a witch. The witch, exiled for who she was just like the girl, sympathized with her, and cast a spell on the girl.
Go into those woods today and you might find the most beautiful black haired girl you ever set your eyes on. She holds in her hand a bouquet of freshly picked white flowers. But don't accept her bouquet - all around her fly butterflies who used to be people that made that mistake.
For, like people, butterflies are attracted to beauty and appearance. The witch, in her infinite wisdom, turned the hideous girl into this beauty - and every person who is attracted to her outward looks and accepts her bouquet turns into a butterfly.
To this day, the girl awaits the person who will love her not for her appearance, but for who she is.
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Lovely
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Even better. The butterflies that don't learn their lesson continue to be attracted to the beauty, eventually bringing their own doom onto themselves... either at the hands of the sundew or the venus flytraps. (:
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Damn we artists are morbid! XD
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Here is my take on your painting;
Like the Venus Flytrap the girl seems innocent enough, you wouldn't expect her to be harmful. The Venus Flytrap isn't particularly beautiful at first glance, but the closer you get the more alluring it becomes. When you notice something isn't quite right it's already too late. That's the way I see her, a pretty girl, but there is something sinister about her.. I heed your warning, I won't accept her bouquet..
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She is becoming the forest. At first it seemed like a good idea, but she's starting to find things to regret. For instance, the dissolution of her body....
Amazing detail and shading; the volume is really well shown!
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Ooh that's cool. Thank you
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