Nightgaunt

"...shocking and uncouth black things with smooth, oily, whale-like surfaces, unpleasant horns that curved inward toward each other, batwings whose beating made no sound, ugly prehensile paws, and barbed tails that lashed needlessly and disquietingly. And worst of all, they never spoke or laughed, and never smiled because they had no face at all to smile with, but only a suggestive blankness where a face ought to be. All they ever did was clutch and fly and tickle; that was the way of Night-Gaunts." --from The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath

NIGHTGAUNT 2002 (mixed media)- This newly completed sculpture was requested by my best friend Ian. A Nightgaunt is a demonlike creature from the game Call of Cthulhu, and the writings of H.P. Lovecraft. This sculpture was an adventure in materials; it contains sculpey, wire, window screen, plaster of paris, wall spackle, bondo, and one big rock from Boulder Creek. It even inspired me to buy a Dremel tool.