Amy L. Rawson continues her tradition of creating felted cthulhoid Santas for the holiday season (see last year’s); the current iteration is $595 on Etsy, and includes a 4lb epoxy/wire “octisleigh” pulled by a “rapidly morphing, protoplasmic vision of a Shoggoth.” It’s 13″ long, 7″ high, not including the Shoggoth. From her post on the piece:
Santa is needle felted entirely from wool. Oddly, this is the first year we’ve given the Santa Cthulhu wings. I have no real reason for that. In previous years I think we just got close to the finish line and thought, “Wings? Nah, that’d be more work …”The shoggoth is a writhing, amoeba-like mass of needle felted pustules, eyes, appendages and teeth. A shoggoth is a constantly changing creature. As such, it’s somewhat difficult to put a yoke or harness on it. Santa just hitches his sleigh up to a large metal ring that he has to trust the shoggoth to keep incorporated into its fluctuating body. Chains hitch the shoggoth’s ring to the sleigh, and Santa holds leather straps as reins. The eyes are glass cabochons that we painted specifically for the shoggoth. The teeth are epoxy clay.
The Octi-Sleigh is a substantial sculpture I made specifically for this project. It has a wire armature covered with nearly 4 lbs of epoxy clay. It is painted with acrylics, and I’d just like to point out that this was my very first attempt at painting with an airbrush! If you look back at the last several journal entries, you can see lots of work-in-progress photos of the sleigh.
Needle Felted Santa Cthulhu with Shoggoth and Octi-Sleigh [Etsy]
Santa Cthulhu 2013: Final! [Thirdroar]
(via Neatorama)