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.