Saturday, October 2, 2010

Tentacle Creature Loves Pretty Unicorn


There’s a perfectly good explanation for this….

No, I’m not producing hentai/shunga tentacle porn fan art. It’s a housewarming gift for some good friends that just moved back to Saskatoon. She’s into unicorns and he’s into… well… Lovecraftian Horror (among other things…). In my mind’s eye I originally envisioned this as a diptych – one picture with a unicorn rearing, the other with a large tentacle-creature… but I lacked the time… or just go lazy… (if spending the time I spent painting this can be considered “laziness”…). I also imagined each of them being about twice as big… but didn’t have the materials at the time… so…

(Remember: click on the pictures below to see a slightly larger version)


Tentacle Creature Loves Pretty Unicorn, 2010, Acrylic on MDF, 42x32cm

I really need to learn how to take better pictures of my paintings… or be a bit more patient and wait for the varnish to dry… or maybe a clever combination of the two.

The title kind of comes from my daughter who, while I was painting it, seemed to be under the impression that the tentacle creature was trying to "hug" the unicorn and that they were going to "get married"...?

2 comments:

  1. That is an awesome picture and I love how the way your daughter interpreted it shows how great a couple of parents you two are! Nice stuff man.

    n.

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  2. Cheers!

    I don't know where the "get married" thing came from. Seems to be a bit of a phase she's going through - EVERYTHING is getting married to each other. All the stuffed animals are married to each other. Most of the rest of the toys too. Every picture she draws of a ballerina, unicorn or dinosaur, she has to explain to me who they're married to...

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