Nassarius #1
9" x 12"
Acrylic on Paper

Octopus in Blue
14" x 17"
Acrylic on Paper

Sea Hare
9" x 12"
Acrylic and Pencil on Paper

Original is  privately owned

Veined Octopus
9" x 12"
Acrylic on Watercolor Paper

Masters of disguise, Octopus can change
color and skin texture and even send
brilliant flashes of light across their
bodies to express emotion and hide from
their prey or their predators.

The Aesthetic Mollusc
Jas. W.  Atkinson, Artist

Conch #1
12" x 9"
Acrylic on Paper

Navanax Achieving the Tao
16" x 20"
Acrylic on Gessoboard

Original is privately owned

Cuttlefish Gothic
11" x 14"
Acrylic on Gessoboard

privately owned

The Marine Molluscs

Courtship of the Calamari
acrylic on gessoboard
      19 x 23

privately owned


As she swims the female
changes color, the male must
keep up with both her color
changes and her swimming - at
the same time he flashes white
on the side opposite the female
to scare off potential rivals