This is a drawing that I’ve been working on for a few months.  A larger image is in the “drawing” section of the web site – easier to see detail than on the image above.  I would always come back to this piece when I need a break from painting or I was trying to work out a difficult problem in another piece.  I got the idea from seeing one of my old business cards upside down.  Those of you who remember my old business cards will know what I mean (just imagine all those tentacles are green).  I’ve been using my old business cards as little “mini-palettes” so I can get up close to a painting without having to pull back to get more paint.

I’m calling it cthulhunfinished because the piece fades out on the sides to get you to focus on the “action” at the center.  However, it is also fading out because I just didn’t want to finish those parts because they weren’t any fun and I hadn’t worked out what I’d do beforehand.  The waves, mountains, etc. are all afterthoughts.  The wings too – which I originally drew in improper perspective (the one on the right was much closer) until Sam corrected me.

I may have this painting in the upcoming show, but I won’t know until this weekend.  I got a frame for it yesterday, but I don’t know if it was the best choice, or how I’m going to crop it (the photo you see above is cropped from a 14×17 sheet of paper.  In the uncropped version there is another part of the boat with a shadowy figure and a huge monster arm reaching up out of the water (to reinforce this is Cthulhu and not a weird octopus).

It is finally confirmed that the show, my first since 2004, will be here on the 16th.  Not sure how I feel about being an art “fool.”   Oh well.  Seems like with a name like that the show should have a theme – but it doesn’t.  I’ll have four new paintings, two of the old college ones (because they’re smaller) and possibly this drawing.  Come out if you can – I’ll be there at the opening on Friday.