In his house in R'lyeh, dead Cthulu lies dreaming.....
Sweet man, shades of "Eddy" in there, somewheres, and a bit of beetlejuice thrown in, it seems... nice work, the exposed viscera looks real nice....
After speaking with ya a few times, Josh, I'm totally going to start out sculpting with none other than Cthulu himself, I've always wanted a figure of him/it but never seen one that looked the way I wanted... I made a great drawing of Yog-Sothoth many years ago that would also make a good subject, sorta of like irridescent bubble gum with claws and fur....
Man, your work is good enought to have lit the fire under my butt, that's powerful man, thanks for sharing...
Oh, and Tamlin... yer a Lovecraft fan too, eh
Very interesting (you only have to look at Barry's site for a few seconds to see his allegiance, I was most impressed to see the liberal smattering of references...)
H.P. Lovecraft died under terrifically mudane circumstances, actually, he was a super clean living teetotaller who wrote the stuff he did to deal with rather nasty dreams he had since childhood; ironically, he found his work hilarious and "over the top", not really scary at all....
He had cataracts in his eyes and had undergone voluntary surgery to have them removed (in 1937, I believe).... pennecillin not being as prevalent, the great author suffered an infection after the procedure and promptly succumbed.....
Although I've heard many more "mysterious" versions, that is the truth...
And "the necronomicon" (referred to as having been written by "abdul al-hazred", a name Lovecraft used as a child whilst playing with his brother, IIRC) was written after Lovecraft's death, I'm pretty sure.... his strength was in referring to all this weird, dreadful books which didn't exist (Vermis mysteries, Unaussprechlichen Kulten, Cultes des ghoules) and letting the reader sweat the details..... he was truly a funny guy, "The shadow out of time", "whisperer in darkness" and "The Call of Cthulu" and the novel "At the mountains of madness" are my personal faves, soooooo sweet.....
man, I gotta get some sculpey
today