This digital art series explores the contrast between life’s vibrancy and the shadow of extinction.
The colorful digital watercolor paintings depict toucans in surreal, abstract settings. Their bright hues symbolize nature’s beauty and fragility, celebrating life while hinting at its impermanence. In contrast, the monochrome digital charcoal drawings focus on endangered species, partially consumed by darkness. The rough textures and fading forms evoke loss, absence, and the slow erasure of life.
Together, these works capture the delicate balance between presence and disappearance, joy and grief, reminding us of what exists, what is fading, and what may soon be lost.
Digital Watercolor Toucan, fine art prints, limited edition of 7 + 1 AP, 2024-2025.
Digital Charcoal Monochrome, fine art prints, limited edition of 7 + 1 AP, 2024.
Dilara Dolu Köksal 