I understand that you are drawing a parallel to blood, but there is an overall feel to all the plants that they were inspired by reality even when they do not slavishly follow reality. Whoever did the drawings knew and liked plants.
I also understand that there's no true red in the VMS (that became clear when looking at the color swatches), but this is as close as you can get if it's ochre and bright red ochre wasn't as easy to obtain as the browner ochres (well, I guess it depends what region you live in, so maybe it was, but the redder ochres are used selectively in the VMS).
I also understand that there's no true red in the VMS (that became clear when looking at the color swatches), but this is as close as you can get if it's ochre and bright red ochre wasn't as easy to obtain as the browner ochres (well, I guess it depends what region you live in, so maybe it was, but the redder ochres are used selectively in the VMS).