Octomaids

Luis Toledo at Laprisamata, Virgen del Mar

Iconographic research is always full of surprises. 

I didn't expect to find such a large crowd of tentacled ladies

floating around the web! Here's a few of my favorites 

for the latest installment of Animalarium's "beastly women" series.  

Glenda Sburelin, Meduse

Dorothea Tanning, costume design for The Witch, 1950

Yumiko Utsu, Octopus portrait, thanks to this isn't happiness

Call of Cthulhu by fantasio on deviantart, 

thanks to FuckYeahOctopus

Lynne Perrella, Undersea showgirls

Ray Caesar

Jason Levesque, thanks to Dark Silence in Suburbia

Dan Hillier 

Benedetta Bonichi

Christina Bothwell, thanks to Saintstigersloversart

Jason Cantoro, Charms

Philippe Caza, thanks to Jean–Pierre Dubois

A Tale in Red and Black - The encounter

Adolfo Serra

Artistic Variations on an Evergreen Theme 

 Franco Spagnolo

 Barroux 

Milimbo, Y recuerda...

 Marco Cazzato

Chiara Carrer

Jaime Zollars, Little Red

 Louise Rowe

 Werner Klemke, 1963, thanks to Rilla Alexander

 Christian Roux 

Beni Montresor

 Javier Zabala

 Fabian Negrin, In bocca al lupo

 Nicoletta Ceccoli

Bernadette, 1971, thanks to Jasper Armstrong

Oh Yeah!

A brief but spectacular animated parade from the Gobelins school for the Annecy Festival

to celebrate a good day for my country... yes, we did it!

Monday Matticchio - Three Little Monkeys

Sunday Safari - Beetlemania

 Kazugama Nagai

 Eugene Alain Seguy

 Noel Tanner, For Charles

 David Bielander, beetle brooch made from a steel spoon

Seijiro Kubo, Stag Beetle

John Dilnot

 Thierry Despont, Insect 25

Greg Lamarche, La Cucaracha

Michael Gillette

 Joianne Bittle, Beetle study n.3

Laura Zindel

 Matazo Kayama

Cella Anita Celic, Atonement Bug, from her very interesting project

Bug's Association, which features many more beetle prints.