Some of Lovecraft's creations

Just a little primer on the creatures that Lovecraft created...

Azathoth - a being of boundless power and size who mindlessly reigns at the center of infinity

Dagon - a god who fathered a race of creatures known as the Deep Ones, who appear to be part man, part fish. Dagon was not a Lovecraftian creation - he was the main deity of the Philistines

Hastur - a malevolent deity, sometimes called "he who must not be named," because he was known to pop up whenever anyone said his name, usually in a really bad mood

Nyarlathotep - aka the Crawling Chaos, the soul and messenger of the Other Gods (beings whose power dwarfs even that of the Great Old Ones), he has infinite shapes and forms and seems to have a malicious sense of humor

Shoggoths - created by the Elder Things to act as slaves, these creatures could assume any shape with their gooey bodies. A shoggoth is a shape-shifting creature originally created by the Elder Things as slaves.

Yog-Sothoth - the all-in-one god, who envelops all of existence and time, mentioned extensively in the mystical book the "Necronomicon"
( From: http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/ arts/literature/cthulhu2.htm )

Cthulhu Found!

"In 1997, the United States Navy detected a mysterious sound deep in the Pacific Ocean. Underwater microphones originally intended to detect Soviet submarines during the Cold War recorded a very low, loud, repeating sound somewhere near S 50°, W 100°. When you digitally speed up the sound (which, when unaltered, lasts longer than a minute), it sounds like "bloop." The noise is similar to a whale's song, but biologists point out it would take a whale larger than any known to man to make a noise like the Bloop. Some Lovecraft fans suggest the noise comes from Cthulhu, possibly as he snores deep within the walls of R'lyeh. " ( From: http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com /arts/literature/cthulhu2.htm)

The Anatomy of The Kraken

The Anatomy of The Kraken

Mr. Cthulhu in all his Steampunk Glory

I'm so excited !!! A few months ago I started a series of silhouette paintings. I decided to take my favorite characters from literature then transform them into silhouettes with a little Steampunk twist. So far on my drawing board I have Alice, Cheshire Cat, Colonel Brandon, and a few others. But today I finished my first and favorite... Mr. Cthulhu! It took me at least a month to get the wings just the way I wanted them. He is dressed as a distinguished Victorian gentleman with top hat, and high collard coat. Setting off his tattered wings, and undulating tentacles nicely. He is lovely hand painted on canvas paper with accents painstakingly detailed in India ink. I then accentuated parts of him with a color of green that I image Cthulhu to be. After the painting was all finished I mounted it on a large ornate wooden plaque, and placed my favorite quote about him on the back to honor his creator H.P. Lovecraft. I am so happy with it. It came out just the way I imagined it in my mind. Very dapper, yet retaining all his monstrous appeal with his alien eye gazing steely upon you till you submit to his horrific will.