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watercolor and gouache, 8x10"

I've been playing with this one on and off this week, so hopefully I'll start doing some more "serious" paintings soon. Not a whole lot of planning went into this, aside from me thinking "gee, I need a free form sort of composition so I can just play with my new paint," so despite the image being a direct frontal view of Cthulhu's face I wasn't really caring about symmetry at all. It's also the most colorful thing I've painted in a long time.

Also, the new tube watercolors make it really easy to use saturated washes in my work now. Perhaps everything will start looking a little brighter and more colorful now that I don't have to waste time mashing at the watercolor pan until the brush picks up enough pigment. Come to think of it, maybe my brushes will last a little better now, too, if the small amount of gouache that I use doesn't get them first.

Cthulhu is from the fiction of HP Lovecraft.

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:iconbear48:
:omg: :wow: OMG WOW what part of your brain did this come from?

I love it

Very nice

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:iconernestabacus:
It's a tribal Cthulhu! Nifty. I dig the tusks.
:iconalexds1:
Yes yes yes brilliant <3
:iconangelac:
Wow, nice.

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:iconking-rastel:
I like the tusk idea. Something I haven't thought of in my own pieces.

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Those eyes are very realistic, there's some sort of glow in them. I also like those tentacles and the colour is just perfect. I can imagine Cthulhu swiming around in the ocian, bringing down boats used to catch wales for some reason.

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:iconodora:
WOW!!!!

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:iconallande:
awesome painting!

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April 4, 2008
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