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ArtistHybrid 50% animal 50%: hummingbird flower (Crotalaria cunninghamii) x bee hummingbird (Mellisuga helenae) Full width 16:9 illustration filling the entire image width of a fully fused hummingbird flower (Crotalaria cunninghamii) x bee hummingbird (Mellisuga helenae)) hybrid. The flowers of the rare hybrids are shown close up. Each animal-plant hybrid has delicate yellow-green flowers in the shape of hummingbirds in flight drinking from flowers with their ivory-colored, beak-shaped stem at the flower’s base. The pronouncedly striated flower petals are the hummingbirds’ wings. The dark green veins of the hummingbird wing flower petals let the feathers appear as if they were made of origami-folded paper. The upper parts of the wing-petals have a purple blush. Dozens of hummingbird flowers are growing on the tip of the flower’s branch, which is shown in the image reaching from right to left. Behind the image is a hexagonal bokeh pattern in shades of light terracotta, yellow, and dark brown, indicative of a dry, rough, sandy background. The entire image is very decorative and yet simple and uncluttered, so that the focus is fully on the perfect ensemble of crane flowers. The image is rendered in an appealing array of elegant, decorative, repetitive bokeh patterns in the sand background, with its different shades of light and dark. The image is rendered in very rich, vibrant, ultra-detailed colors in intense pen-and-colored-ink technique with high color contrast. The hybrid itself is strongly front-lit by the sun. The delightful, fully melded biological oddity is illustrated with painstaking precision and elegant poise.
A hybrid of a hummingbird flower (Crotalaria cunninghamii) x bee hummingbird (Mellisuga helenae. If you look closely, you can see the hummingbirds.