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Cobra Lily in a Bog

A watercolor painting of a cobra lily pitcher plant in a bog, featuring a hooded head with translucent windows and a forked red tongue, set against a background of blurred sedges.

A cobra lily pitcher in a mountain bog in northern California, its hooded head and forked red tongue backlit by the low sun, pale windows in the hood glowing, a haze of sedges behind, white paper left for the windows, wet-on-wet lime and wine red, watercolour, washes running to all four edges, no paper margin or border, flat and square-on See more

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