Royal Lacey Scoville's "The Dream of Tom Tompkins"
"The Arma-daffy-dillo, Jam-bo-reet, Trunc-o-phant and other fantastic creatures are the subjects of a special exhibition this holiday season at the Brandywine River Museum. The Imaginary Beasts of Royal Lacey Scoville features 38 whimsical watercolors that form an original narrative written and illustrated by Royal Lacey Scoville in 1915. The untitled story was never published because it was created solely for the amusement of his daughter.

Ingeniously weaving poetic verse and colorful illustrations with fantastic creatures of his own invention, Scoville tells the tale of the lazy Tom Tompkins and the wizard, Tumblebug, who casts a spell on Tom. Startled from a mid-day nap, Tom stares at a gigantic snake with a multicolored head and gaping mouth. Trapped by the spell, he is unable to escape the snake's coils as they tighten around his legs.

Scoville's snake provides a consistent visual link throughout the story, appearing in every panel. Each new image, to the horror of Tom, introduces an imaginary beast ensnared by the snake's body. By the story's completion, the snake is an impressive 44 feet long and has seized 35 creatures, among them the amusing Arma-daffy-dillo, the wild Jam-bo-reet, and the indolent Trunc-o-phant."

- quote taken from here.

5 of the 36 watercolors made for "The Dream of Tom Tompkins".

Heiko Müller
Heiko is another great artist that I am familiar with. He's been doing these great drawings of scary looking animals with white eyes. He's come up with an interesting method of decorating the borders of the drawing with strange line drawings that are worked back into the center composition, always fun to look at.

Austin Osman Spare
"Austin Osman Spare was an artist, philosopher and occult magician. Like Aleister Crowley with whom he had a brief association, Spare was a genius in his own time unappreciated and vilified by a society that could little understand him. His was the inspiration that led to the formation of the 'Illuminates of Thanateros' (IOT) in England in the late 1970’s and the practice of what is now known as 'Chaos Magic' " - link taken from here.

A large collection of Spare's art can be found at this site.

Here are a selection of drawings by Spare from the collection of John Balance (a greatly missed, unique and incredible musician) and Peter Christopherson of the amazing musical group "Coil". "The following drawings were executed by Spare in 1924, part of a series which he titled the Book of Ugly Esctacy."

This page has compiled some of the following galleries of Spare's art and writing.
Automatic Drawing
Anathema of Zos: The Sermon to the Hypocrites
Check out the "Adventures In Limbo" sketchbook.

Some of my favorite Spare pictures...
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Micha Lobi
More works can be seen below.
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Enjoy the slug shaped Santa Clause creature in some hellish Hieronymus Bosch inspired landscape just in time for Christmas Eve.