bats for bat – half-girl, half-robot

accessible-art:

ymutate:

John Brophy is an American artist currently living in Ireland

[ID: John Brophy’s “Bat Girl”. It is an oil painting of a young girl holding a bat to her chest and petting it like a cat.

The bat’s wings are outstretched as if hugging her back, and she is looking down on it fondly.

In the background is a dark forest, at sunset, with two more bats flying. End ID]

verbrannt74:

Take this 🦇

evonnagale:

sca-nerd:

riskart:

I’ve been working on some little charms and pendants inspired by marginalia creatures from illuminated manuscripts.

I could have sworn I posted them already. Or at least had them in the queue but it looks like they disappeared

They’re a lot of fun.

Just some silly little guys

These are all porcelain fired to cone 5ish, there was 1 casualty that exploded in the kiln and you can see a few remnants stuck on here and there. But overall I think these were a successful first go at it.

I would like an army of them, please.

@qqueenofhades

discardingimages:

bats

Worksop Bestiary, England c. 1185

NY, The Morgan Library & Museum, MS M.81, fol. 54v

xphaiea:

From Omnia Andreae Alciati V.C. Emblemata, 1577

valtsv:

today i learned that there are cave paintings of bats and i think you all deserve to see them

jstor:

Bats and sycamore leaves*, a woodblock print by an unidentified Japanese artist ca. 1900. From the Taubman Museum of Art collection on JSTOR, featuring 1,701 freely accessible images of artworks, no login needed!

*What kind of leaves did you think they were, huh?

therinly:

Finished a new piece. I think it speaks to my state of mind. Notice the fine details. 🙂

ok this isn’t bats, but Bat would have loved it

my-darling-boy:

But what if the bat was from my secret gay vampire admirer

my-darling-boy:

Ah rabies

my-darling-boy:

I was going to rewatch 1931 Dracula again tonight and just as I turned it on a BAT started flying around at my window and wouldn’t go away and I’ve never seen a bat at my house before and let me tell you I’ve been so gay touched starved this quarantine I was about ready to risk letting a wild bat in my room if it meant it could possibly be one tall, Sexy vampire

gremlynn-draws:

Medieval Bat