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Watercolour pencils and paints, on Arches coldpress, 12"x16". (The scanner cropped the edge of the picture a bit as it was so large, especially on the left and the top).

'BUSH DAI-DAI

This obscure monster hails from the jungles of Guyana in South America and has its roots in Caribbean folklore.

The Bush Dai Dai will take the form of a beautiful woman and appear to travelers or in miner’s camps, and seduce a weak man she might take a fancy to. After having her way with the unfortunate she will change into a wild animal and eat her victim as they sleep. She is a mixture of the succubus myth with a dash of werewolf thrown in for good measure.

Her animal form can vary but most stories say she will become a jaguar or a huge bat as these are some of the most terrifying animals to be found in the rainforest.

The Bush Dai-Dai is part of a group of monsters known as Jumbees. A Jumbee was once a human who commited some grave evil during their lives and are punished after death by becoming a bloodthirsty monster.

Like the Dai-Dai itself the Jumbee is a strange fusion of different cultural folktales. It is an eclectic mixture of Amerindian (the indigenous native people of South America) and Afro-Guyanese (People from Africa who immigrated to South America) heritage. Also at the time of the Jumbee's first appearance Guyana was colonized by the British, Dutch, French and even the Spanish who have all influenced the area’s mythology in some way.'

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~Tabon Mar 4, 2011  Student Digital Artist
This is beautiful. Really inspirational and refreshing too; it's nice to see something so different and original. It feels like you've sourced it directly from ancient art. Wonderfully traditional composition and interesting textures.
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~seigyokushiroi Feb 13, 2011
Ooh the red the red I love the red. The colors and the swirling and the mixing blurred lines that make it seem frantic and surreal and the way it seems to symbolize the 2D sense of her hunger, her purely animal craving. The entrapment, enslavement to her desire and sole dependence on her needs for a feeling of satisfaction, the chaos and the deep rooted dissatifaction, unhappiness, and always desire, desire, desire.

And that you know so much about folk mythology! I adore you! You are officially on my list of artists to dA stalk (in the most non-creepy way possible). Be warned - numerous long reviews to come over the next months!
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Mood: Wow! ~umlando Jan 12, 2011
Beautiful visualization - I love the almost naive way you've arranged her in the flat space of the canvas/screen, with very little foreshortening or background. There's a light to this like a batik, using resistance, which you just had to paint light for that effect with your materials.
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*kuroyamaarashi Jan 5, 2011
Wow! Very cool style!
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~panda-jamican-pie Nov 10, 2010  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
wow! i love the story and i love your interpretation of it~

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~greenfroggies Dec 22, 2010   General Artist
Thanks very much :)

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=rheall Nov 10, 2010
Oh, wow. I think this is my absolute favourite so far! I love the energy in the pose, and the slight sense of something being not-right. I love the role colour plays in emphasizing certain areas of the image. Of course, the style is captivating, and the use of texture... gosh, I could go on and on!

Excellent work! :D

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~greenfroggies Dec 22, 2010   General Artist
What glowing praise! Thank you so much, I'm really glad you see so much energy in this style and this picture. I think lots of my work is sorely lacking in energy normally, so this is something I'm working on.

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