Octopuses Garden by Alexandra Felgate
Alexandra Felgate

Octopuses Garden by

Coloured Pencil on black cartridge paper 2009

Inspired by the Beatles song sung by Ringo.

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sea, fish, underwater, garden, octopus

Comments

  • cardiocentric
    cardiocentricabout 3 years ago

    Absolutely beautiful! You’re lucky to be in Australia, you’ve got the blue ringed octopus, they’re beautiful. Too bad they’re poisonous :[

  • Thank you :) And you are right they are so very beautiful, but jeez they are dangerous!! (like so many beautiful things in nature I guess!!)

    – Alexandra Felgate

  • Shylie Edwards
    Shylie Edwardsabout 3 years ago

    this would be great in childrens book……im sure you can write the story!! oh talented you!!

  • Thank you so much Shylie!! Hmmm, a story about an octopus…..not sure I am a writer, however I have always wanted to be a childrens book illustrator!! Thank you for such a lovely compliment!!

    – Alexandra Felgate

  • Jennifer Craker
    Jennifer Crakerabout 3 years ago

    Wonderful work Alex

  • Thank you :)

    – Alexandra Felgate

  • Blended
    Blendedabout 3 years ago

    You did a fabulous job with this. It almost looks abstract with all those tentacles. I like!!

  • Thank you very much :)

    – Alexandra Felgate

  • naturalimages
    naturalimagesabout 3 years ago

    Beautifully drawn and agree that this would make a good book illustration.

  • Thanks Shirley :) I would love to illustrate a book, just need to find someone to write it!!

    – Alexandra Felgate

  • Susan Bergstrom
    Susan Bergstromabout 3 years ago

    Holy Cow…how cool!!!

  • Wow, thanks Susan! I really loved how this turned out, starting to get the hang of working on black I think!

    – Alexandra Felgate

  • catherine walker
    catherine walkerabout 3 years ago

    Amazing drawing..so well done..looks like it would have taken many hours of work..you have all the little suckers on it’s tenticles done perfectly.. It’s great ..is this a part of a bigger underwater scene..if not I can imagine a whole scene..with the mermaids and the octopus..and all sorts of other sea creatures.

  • Thank you Cathy, yes those damned suckers took FOREVER!!! Actually this isn’t part of anything bigger, but what a brilliant idea!!!! I am planning on doing some more underwater creatures, sort of as a series…..maybe I’ll finish off with a really huge one of all of them!! Goodness, I get ideas from my lovely fellow RB artists way more than I have the time to paint them all!! I wish head would stope filling with idea after idea, I’ll never get them all done, and I sooo wish I could!!

    – Alexandra Felgate

  • helene ruiz
    helene ruizabout 3 years ago

    fabulous work, great detail

  • Thank you Helene….yes the detail on those tentacles took ages!!!

    – Alexandra Felgate

  • Cvail73
    Cvail73about 3 years ago

    Thanks for adding me to your watchlist and allowing me to discover your great portfolio! :))

  • You are welcome, and thak you for the compliment!

    – Alexandra Felgate

  • Ming  Myaskovsky
    Ming Myaskovskyabout 3 years ago

    I like octopus and I like to eat them, this is great work!!

  • They are very tasty! Thanks Ming :)

    – Alexandra Felgate