Marie WheelerContinuing in my tour of the Lovecraftian universe, I have added another page to the journal!
Cthulhu is likely the most popular and well-known of the Lovecraftian creatures and is quite popular in current culture, being integrated into games and all sorts of pop culture paraphernalia. Everything is tentacles.
So, returning from the marketing aspect of Cthulhu to the story, the monster is best-known and described in the Call of Cthulhu and as quoted on HPLovecraft.com:
“If I say that my somewhat extravagant imagination yielded simultaneous pictures of an octopus, a dragon, and a human caricature, I shall not be unfaithful to the spirit of the thing. A pulpy, tentacled head surmounted a grotesque and scaly body with rudimentary wings… It represented a monster of vaguely anthropoid outline, but with an octopus-like head whose face was a mass of feelers, a scaly, rubbery-looking body, prodigious claws on 
hind and fore feet, and long, narrow wings behind. This thing, which seemed instinct with a fearsome and unnatural malignancy, was of a somewhat bloated corpulence…”
What a ghastly picture that paints! I’m not nearly able to pain the picture I have in my head, but I feel like it worked out okay…
I used a combination of water, tea and the Distress Ink Sprays for Black Soot and Spiced Marmalade as in the Azathoth drawing and the same process for the edges of the paper. I did add some stamping for the background on this one and used the Distress Ink in Vintage Photo and a Hampton Art Diffusion Scratch Stamp I got on clearance. The clearance section at Hobby Lobby is often amazing!
In retrospect, I do wish I had done the background a bit lighter. I added a quote from the book at the bottom that is a reported chant from the cult of Cthulhu, “In his house at R’lyeh, dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.”
Yeah, it’s pretty creepy. Always reassuring to know that it is all complete fantasy!
