Everything great starts with a small one 
Hooray, I found everyone. A hawk is in the window, and goats and a cougar are on the roofs.
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A piece following a creative exercise to explore landscape painting. The central idea was to illustrate the silent and relentless power of nature.
Imagine a city abandoned for thousands of years. Human civilization has vanished, and the Earth is finally reclaiming what is its own. I aimed to capture an atmosphere of melancholy, hope, and contemplation—where the light breaks through the foliage to illuminate a rebirth, and human artifacts (like the abandoned car in the foreground) are merely transient symbols of our brief passage.
I spent about 4 to 5 hours in Krita on this piece, focusing on the depth of the layers, the complexity of the organic textures (foliage, moss), and the use of light and mist to create a sense of vastness and mystery.
City Taken by Alien Plant
This painting depicts a city already overtaken by an alien lifeform — a colossal, organic, hostile plant spreading like a parasitic organism.
I wanted to explore the feeling of silent defeat, when humanity arrives too late to stop the creature’s advance. The lone explorer serves as both scale and witness, standing before something that has grown out of control, absorbing everything around it.
This was a study in atmosphere, texture, and lighting, combining urban elements with alien biomass to create a contrast between rigid structures and the chaotic expansion of the organism.
This is my second entry here on the forum, and it marks the end of my recent cycle of semi-realistic works.
This piece portrays a quiet, distant future where nature has reclaimed what once belonged to civilization. The Statue of Liberty, now weathered and partly overtaken by vegetation, stands as a silent reminder of a world that has passed. The river, light, and open landscape suggest renewal and peace, contrasting with the monument’s decay. My intention was to blend nostalgia with hope, using a calm palette and traditional-inspired brushwork to create a sense of timelessness.
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I didn’t find any of them, but I found Optimus Prime
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Beautiful work and fun with hidden objects. The hawk took ne longest to find.
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The idea for this painting came to me in a dream about ten days before the theme for the monthly art challenge was announced.
To make the time progression fit I needed a small house. The dream said it had to have a front porch. I searched for images like that and one of them reminded me of the house from American Gothic. Using that house extends the time line portrayed because that house is part of all of our (art) histories. I turned the the figures around to increase the association with American Gothic while drawing the viewer into the start of the sequence.
I went with a van Gogh kind of painting style and used the resulting flow of the sky to help tie the sequence together.
I’m hoping that the Cyress- or Poplar-y trees serve as comic strip frame dividers. If that works the one at the right edge will help stop the viewer’s eye from falling off the right edge of the painting.
I also hope that either the flow of the sky or the dark vignetting at the right and bottom edge might help draw the eye back to the beginning (left side).
The original is 7200x2160 pixels. I assume they get re-scaled here?
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8 posts were merged into an existing topic: Monthly Art Challenge WIPs and Discussion Thread – November 2025
City Taken by Alien Plant
Sorry, guys, I had to delete my post because it was on the wrong place!
But I reposted it with my original post “City Taken By Nature”.
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The Owl is my Mom! She’s always the Wise Ol’ Bird!
Exemplary work per usual, my Friend!
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Hi @Valquer
You can submit up to 3 but they all have to be inside the same post. Can you move this one to join the first one?
For this month, I chose an abandoned magic building. I tried to experiment a bit and not use outlines.
Both danger and reward patiently wait for the adventurer who dares to brave this forest. The picture includes a small spider, but it’s not hidden enough to count as part of the “hidden object” theme 
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Sure! I’ll delete the original one right now and post again on the correct place.
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An excellent choice, and an excellent painting.
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Hey folks! Here’s my entry! 
I was surprised that no one so far had addressed the actual part of nature that is threatening to engulf us in real life, and that is: water! You know, the rising oceans, the floodings etc. So I wanted to treat that theme, but at the same time, some of you might know that drawing buildings, even ruined ones, isn’t exactly my favourite thing to do, I very much prefer to draw characters, creatures and animals… So I tried to illustrate my point with an aquatic animal eating a piece of technology that is the most emblematic of our modern civilization, and spiced things up by giving that device a semblance of life through a well-known virtual character! I hope that it fits the theme enough and that you’ll like it. 
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Might’ve went a bit overboard on the leaves! This type of challenge can go a few ways. Beauty of nature overgrowing the beauty of art and architecture. Or, eventually, both reach a state of decay. There’s a beauty in that as well, but only to those who respect the process of the temporal. Old things must pass away. Behold, all things become new!
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A mix of fantasy setting with modern civilization.
Story
The abandoned tower was so ancient that not a trace of the city around it could be found anymore, yet strangely the building stood against the passage of time, only partially covered in plants. Gwidwyn was not an expert in architecture, but the construction itself was not of anything that his era and the one before produced. Something that should have been white or grey at first, not exactly looking like something occupied by living creatures, not exactly disgusting, but he didn’t have a good feeling about it. Even furnitures looked strange in his eyes.
He climbed the floors, touching some plants on the way, one, two, three… ten, but the stairs never stopped and the magic in plants was stronger and stronger. As a lafloe he could feel it clearly, the message in the magic who restrained the plant and at the same time made it prosper for so long. The spanning time enough to make his head spin.
“Destroy this thing!” “No, keep it as proof I was here.” “Stop, it hurts them.” “Why?” “Life… I will live on.” “This is where it happened.”
Short on breath, he stopped climbing and with some sort of intuition, he explored this floor. Strange room, cold even with all the trees, flowers in them. For him who had grown up in the jungle, that was a bit scary.
Past a door, Gwidwyn saw him, standing under the moon’s light, radiating the same magic that overflowed from the plant. A sight escaped him, finally understanding.
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I made this earlier this month but been debating whether its good to post or not but i know i would regret it if i didn’t.
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I had a lot of fun with this challenge! Here is my entry for this month’s contest!
I was inspired by the thought of a person finding the ruins of a man and still finding him beautiful despite all that time and his circumstances have changed him. I’m not sure I actually got that message across, but it was fun to try.
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WOW!
I’m looking through all the submissions for this month so far (and I expect one or two will sneak in at the buzzer ‘cause I’ve seen @Mythmaker lurking around in the likes) and there are so many cool postings! Way to go everyone, another amazing month of exceptional pieces!
I know I say this every month, but yet again it’s going to be so hard to pick just two to vote for this time around!
@Famouzy - Thanks for the topic! It was fun to see how everyone interpreted it in so many coo ways!
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