Some batty images for Halloween

Cute bat from Andrew McIntosh (based in Australia) – I love the light through the translucent pink skin

With Halloween this week I thought I would put together one of my galleries of appropriate pictures that have caught my eye. This year the theme is bats and as usual I have chosen many of these images from the excellent DeviantArt website. Click on each picture to go to the source.

First we have some “cute” bats…

The Very Bat Day by Dragibuz (Lorene Barioz in France)

Cuddled up for Halloween – Bat by Michael J Larson in the United States

Poison bat by Grelin Machin in Canada – I love the wicked deep purple berries

Then there are some assorted “bat women”…

Design for a bat doll by Atmosblue of the USA

That’s quite an old image and Atmosblue has now grown up to become Gossamer Rozen – his newer art website is worth a look here.

Bat Lady – a sort of Manga Circe the witch by Tiamatart (Albina, who works in Russia)

Bookish Bat by Barukurii in the UK

These are quite graphic designs…

Green Bat by Ursula Vernon in the USA – I suppose it’s the jade colour but to me it looks like something from the Aztec world

Mecha Bat – a rather steampunk tattoo design by Mesozord (Tommaso Tagliabue in Italy)

While these are more naturalistic depictions of bats…

Part of an illustration showing different bat faces by Ernst Haeckel in his book Kunstformen der Natur published in 1904 – image from Wikimedia Commons

A 2006 stamp from Belarus, one of a set featuring bats – click on the image to go to the whole set on Wikimedia Commons

Drawing of a bat by Mark Leithauser (born Detroit, 1950) from the Smithsonian American Art Museum – click on the image to go to a whole spotlight on the art and science of bats at the Smithsonian

Finally there are some three-dimensional representations…

Japanese wooden netsuke showing a bat with two babies, from New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, image from Wikimedia Commons

Censer in the shape of the bat god from the Monte Albán culture of Oaxaca – it is in the Ethnological Museum in Berlin, Germany, and the image is from Wikimedia Commons

Rather unusual bat on the back of an eagle lectern in Aachen cathedral – the bat dates from 1874 and serves to stabilise the broken lectern, of a much earlier date – image from Wikimedia Commons

If you are still in the mood, here are some more of my Halloween image collections for previous years – click on the images to go to the posts:

Black Cats for Halloween

The cauldron: Symbol of life and death

Some colourful skulls for Halloween

Designer birds: Owl

Jack o’ lantern and Will o’ the wisp

Hope you enjoyed the tour of my Halloween galleries…