Just in time to deposit festive egg sacs around your yard for Easter — via Octophant
A Boy and His Squid
by Travis Louie, part of his new exhibition The Creature Show
currently on display through May 7th at Roq La Rue in Seattle — via Laughing Squid
Dead Cthulhu dreams… of holding hands and candle-lit dinners — via RedBubble
A very fun tattoo commission for Amy. Her little guy apparently calls them applepus
instead of octopus, which is adorable and also the reason for the toy.
I used a more impasto application of gouache than usual, and it was both challenging and educational. The stuff is really easy to blend wet in wet, but once it dries, lifting becomes a problem. It’s a delicate balancing act between having enough paint mixed up and keeping that paint wet while you work with other colors — via CrashOctopus Blog
Squid nip — via GoComics.com
Surprise! a little late but I made some Valentine Cards for everyone to share — via deviantART
I don’t know. Another long cephalopod experiment. This time with gold gouache. Until recently, I didn’t know they made gold gouache. It is awesome. But it does not scan well — via CrashOctopus Blog
our show will continue after a small break — via deviantART
Poise From the book About People by William Steig, published by Duell, Sloan and Pearce in 1939, originally uploaded by Evan Finch.
6×12? gouache, ink, and pastel
I have this fairly expensive watercolor paper that is an odd size – 10.5×24.5 cm or something inexplicably weird like that. It’s been sitting around for a while, and one day I got a wild hair and sketched out a bunch of elongated cephalopods on them. After I finished the drawings (feeling very pleased with myself for letting my muse vent), I stared at them with the vacancy usually expressed by my dog when I try to teach him a trick. I hadn’t thought these out. I had no idea what colors to use.
So I turned to my friend the Gimp and did some color tests. I’d been meaning to try out this orange/blue/green combo on something, and it looked like it’d work well on this guy. So I tried it out, and it was fun, but didn’t look finished, so I cut a piece of Sennelier La Carte pastel card and made a border for it. Then I glued the paper to it with acrylic gel medium. The piece now feels finished, and I feel like a slightly bewildered collage artist — via CrashOctopus Blog
Tom Hardwidge’s Arthrobots are robotic insects — steampunk creations made from upcycled gears, nuts, bolts… and bullets! — via 1-800-Recycling
Love these (sadly unattributed) Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy tattoos. Illustrating the flowerpot/whale scene is particularly poignant, as it is perhaps the most humorously existential moment in one of the great existential comedies of all time — via Boing Boing
Kyle Bean made a sculpture of a chicken out of eggshells. It’s called Which Came First? Although, at first, I thought that this was a digital image, the last photo in the set at the link shows Bean assembling the sculpture — via Neatorama
— via Forrai Metal Design
A cute little octopus appears to be having a bad day on this lovely teacup. This is a particularly nice china cup, and an adorable hand painted design — via Etsy
Torch-worked borosilicate glass. Made by Matt Entenmann in Oregon, USA. Approximately 8 inches long — via Threyda
There was a short period of my early life that was punctuated by truly unfortunate nightmares. I’d go to sleep feeling safe and warm.
Then I’d awaken several hours later and somehow be completely convinced that my closet was inhabited by fire monsters — via Hyperbole and a Half
5×7? gouache and ink on Canson paper — via CrashOctopus Blog
Bookworm, or booksquid?. So many interesting things are waiting to be read. Careful with those stacks of books! I wonder if anyone has suggested an e-reader to him yet?
This 5×7 inch print is a reproduction of an original gouache and watercolour painting. It is professionally printed on Kodak Endura Metallic paper, a unique dimensional surface that results in sharp details and beautifully saturated colours — via Etsy
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