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Bringing prehistory back to life

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August 16, 2012
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:iconeurwentala:
I might have gotten slightly carried away with this. It was so fun to paint.

During the Ice Ages, there was no taiga forest belt such as today. Steppe and tundra graded smoothly into each other. The northernmost parts of the mammoth steppe were tundra-like: many plants that today live on tundras and montane grasslands of northern Fennoscandia grew there. With wild horses grazing on them and lions hunting the horses. Today, they live thousands of kilometers apart.

Here, a young cave lion is about to learn why one should be careful with tarpans. It's July somewhere close to the edge of the ice and the steppe-tundra is blooming. The plants depicted include Betula nana, Viscaria alpina, Rhododendron lapponicum, Orthilia secunda, Pedicularis sceptrum-carolinum and Dryas octopetala. Yes, the latter is the plant that was so common at the time at gave its name to the Dryas climatic periods.

And credits where they are due:

For the horse, I used Venomxbaby's stock photo as a reference: [link]

For the fur, I used Photoshop fur brushes by Sullivan (here: [link]) and Snow-Body ([link]).

Background and foreground are based on photographs I took in Northern Norway.
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~equusmesteno Apr 1, 2013
Awesome, that tarpan is amazing! great work!!
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*Eurwentala Apr 11, 2013
Thanks! :)
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~Dino-Mario Feb 3, 2013  Hobbyist General Artist
Looks amazing!!!
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*Eurwentala Feb 6, 2013
Thanks. :)
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~anatotitan Dec 1, 2012  Professional Interface Designer
Really, really beautiful.
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*deathmango Oct 30, 2012
Wow, this is beautiful. It's curious to see a predator-prey interaction look so graceful, or idyllic. Your combination of photography and painting really knocks it out of the park. Fabulous!
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*Eurwentala Oct 31, 2012
Thanks! I planned to make whole series of these paintings with weird combinations of animals and plants that never meet today, but I'm currently a bit overwhelmed by, well, life, and it might take a while.
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~vasix Aug 21, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
I love tue cave lion's "Oh shit!!" Kinda expression
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*Eurwentala Sep 6, 2012
Haha, thanks. He's not a particularly smart one.
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~vasix Sep 7, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
True dat, but it is in fact, very nice and natural a pic too
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