Stencil/Spray-paint - Octopus vulgaris III

Octopus vulgaris (B 577) Blue study 2, spraypaint & watercolour 2013 (21 x 29 cm)

Octopus vulgaris (B 577) B&W study II, spraypaint & watercolour 2013 (27 x 39 cm)

Stencil/Spray-paint - Octopus vulgaris II

Octopus vulgaris (B 577) B&W study , spraypaint  & watercolour 2013 (  38 x 28 cm)

Octopus vulgaris, Under sea surface

The stencil, developed for the previous blog, is put to use when presenting  the Common Octopus (Octopus vulgaris) in an underwater view. 

Under sea surface Octopus vulgaris (B 577), spraypaint and watercolour, 2013 (21 x 28 cm) 

Die Schablone, welche für die vorherigen Blogbericht entwickelt wurde, ist angewendet worden bei der Vorstellung des Gewöhnlicher Krake (Octopus vulgaris) in einer Unterwasser-Ansicht

The Common Octopus (B 577)

Octopus vulgaris (Common octopus) - Indian Ink wash & watercolour 2013  (c. 21 x 30 cm)

Recently, circumstances in my personal life interfered with my intentions to paint.
So this summer passed without composing colour images.
Now the days shorten, and I take up working in black and white again.
Let me start with the Common Octopus,
thus resuming the theme of my previous blog message.

Phyllactis preatexta (B 80)

Phyllactis praetexta (B 80) Watercolour 2013 (c. 25 x 34 cm)

The sea anemone Phyllactis preatexta, issued as Blaschka glass model  nr. 80, pictured in an underwater scene.

Underwater landscape of Crespo Island

I took the illustration  “Underwater landscape of Crespo Island” from the 1871 edition of Vingt mille lieues sous les mers (Twenty thousand leagues under the seas), by Jules Verne, illustrated by Édouard Riou and Alphonse de Neuville.

Blaschka meets Verne, Watercolour  2013 (c. 50x70 cm)

Underwater landscape of Crespo Island  (book illustration)

This image served as an incentive to create a new underwater fantasy.

It features Blaschka animals, that seem to feel very much at home in Verne’s environment.