Sunday Safari - Arachnophobia

 M. Dobuzinskij, D'javol from Zolotoe runo, 1907


Halloween is drawing near
time to face our wildest fear 

Odilon Redon, Smiling Spider, thanks to Japonisme

Bruno Paul, Plague in South Africa, illustration from Simplicissimus, 1901.

Many thanks to ihatemusic1943 for the info! 

 A. H. Watson, illustration from The Enchanted Blanket, 1936, thanks to ElfGoblin

 Aleksandra Waliszewska, Dom Babci

Film poster by Wojciech Fangor for Les Compagnes de la Nuit, 1956

Book cover by Rein van Looij, 1940s, thanks to 50 Watts

 Walter Martin and Paloma Muñoz, Traveler at Night

Michael Sowa, Spider on the wall

Book cover by Emanuel Schongut, 1960s

Film poster by Wiktor Gorka, 1964

Film poster by Werner Klemke for The Golden Spider 

from Graphis 1959-60, thanks to Sandi Vincent

Lorenzo Mattotti, illustration from The Raven

Sunday Safari - Four & Twenty Black Birds

Actually, if you count them all they are even more,

from Rooks and Ravens to Blackbirds and Crows.

A big flock for our last Winter Safari.

Welcome Spring!

Rooks in Ginko Tree by Diana Sudyka

Les Corbeaux de Pearblossom cover by Beatrice Alemagna

Cria Cuervos Cuban movie poster by Eduardo Munoz Bachs, 1977

Two works from Raven by Emmanuel Polanco

Raven by Lisa Congdon

Blackbird's nest by Joe McLaren

Blackbirds by Jantze Tullet, thanks to The Art Room Plant

Crow by Sebastiano Ranchetti

Raven by Ann Wood

Maggi poster ad from Reklamarsenaal

Cover of Graphis 116, 1964

The Raven by Lorenzo Mattotti

Corvo and Merlo by Marco Cazzato

Crows by Leonard Baskin

Crowed and Crowm by Lou Beach

Poster by Mehdi Saeedi

Rural Corvus and Urban Corvus by Dan Grzeca

Blackbird by Maarten Kolk and Guus Kusters

Drawing by Amy Dover