It didn't need to be finely detailed obviously and I wanted to be very close to H P Lovecrafts original description. So I started by re-reading the story and getting a copy of the authors original sketch.
This is the description from the story.
"The figure ... was between seven
and eight inches in height, and of exquisitely artistic workmanship.
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, and squatted evilly on a rectangular block or pedestal
covered with undecipherable characters. The tips of the wings touched
the back edge of the block, the seat occupied the centre, whilst the
long, curved claws of the doubled-up, crouching hind legs gripped the
front edge and extended a quarter of the way clown toward the bottom
of the pedestal. The cephalopod head was bent forward, so that the
ends of the facial feelers brushed the backs of huge fore paws which
clasped the croucher's elevated knees. The aspect of the whole was
abnormally life-like, "
This is Lovecrafts sketch.I made the statue approximately the same dimensions as the description, it was constructed using what artist sometimes call "mixed media" it sounds better than scraps of wood, bit's of wire and paper mache!
It was painted with acrylic paints.
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