The Cycloptopus and the Diver

Artist: Lloyd Harvey
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The Cycloptopus and the Diver

Medium: Acrylic Paint on Acrylic Paper
Size: 12” x 16”
Description:

Octopuses interest me greatly. Their numerous tentacles represent such freedom of movement and a real sense of foreboding. In movies, the giant octopus or squid (Kracken) is always portrayed as an evil entity where, if such a huge creature existed in life, they would be no more evil than a daffodil.

Eyes have become somewhat of an obsession of mine since working on a project based on the band Tool’s album 10,000 Days. Cycloptic creatures in fantasy are cast in the same light as giant sea ‘monsters’ and are even tagged with a ‘freak’ label in our world.

Combine the two together and you would assume we have a deep sea dwelling animal of pure evil… but the cycloptopus isn’t and evil being. It’s just misunderstood.

Complete in 2009.

Contact me at lloydharvey@shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk
www.shrunkenheaddesign.co.uk

The Cycloptopus and the Diver belongs to the following groups:

!* Dark Cabaret *!, Acrylic Painting, Atheism, Dark artists, dark art, Evolution (A.k.a. Captain Darwin's Beagle club), Fantasy Art, Mixed Media, Painters In Modern Times - TWO PER DAY, Practising the Dark Arts, Rapt in Tentacles, South East UK and United Kingdom