Lovecraft week is coming!
I planned on dedicating this upcoming week to all things Lovecraft, unfortunately I'm struggling to find a fair amount of content online. So I'm scanning in and scraping together enough material offline to make a solid week of artwork to showcase.

I'm disappointed at how difficult it is to find good Lovecraft art online and I hope to change that. I should be ready in 2 - 3 weeks but meanwhile if anyone knows of any good art sites dedicated to H.P Lovecraft's stories, please let me know and I'll be sure to credit you.

Here's a link as a sample of what's to come. And clicking on the image above will take you to a large painting by Enrique Breccia from a recent graphic novel concerning Lovecraft.

Monster Without A Cause - The Drawings Of David Paleo






















One of my friends has started a blog for his incredible artwork. David has a unique way of abstracting and distorting characters into surreal abominations the likes of which can be seen above.

You can see more of David's work here.

Monsters At Wikimedia Commons





















This is a great place to find unusual artwork of various beasts. You'll find demons, sea monsters, trolls, odd creatures, and other categories that define imaginary creatures. As more people contribute images to this collection it will become a greater resource of interesting artwork.

You'll find a giant version of the above painting by Hieronymus Bosch here.

Henry Fuseli
Most will recognize this painting with the devil sitting on the woman in bed, probably Fuseli's most famous painting. All of his paintings provoke a dark dreamlike world with witches, fairies and demons. The limbs of people on the canvas are stretched into peculiar and unnatural contortions. This quote on Fuseli's creative process details the reason for this... "As a painter, Fuseli was daringly inventive, and always aspired to the highest forms of excellence. His method included deliberately exaggerating the due proportions of the parts and throwing his figures into contorted attitudes. One technique involved setting down arbitrary points on a sheet, which then became the extreme points of the various limbs--rather like creating a constellation from the unintentional relations of stars." - quote taken from here.

Fuseli's paintings would inspire many of the artists that have been rounded into the "symbolist" art movement.

I was impressed at the large size of the paintings on display at the Wikimedia Commons gallery of Fuseli's works. Check out the weird creatures at the top of this painting.

Click here to see a sketch by Fuseli of a bizarre dragon like beast with a large human head. This image is part of another gallery of drawings and paintings inspired by Dante's "The Divine Comedy".

Louis Moe

Danish-Norwegian Painter and illustrator, Moe made many etchings and paintings that followed the themes of fantasy and legends.

Another gallery can be found here.

Jean Marie Poumeyrol





















I think of Poumeyrol as the David Cronenberg of fantastic art.

2nd Gallery
3rd Gallery

A. Paul Weber
Weber's work focused mostly on lithography with subject matter usually bent towards political satire. His imagery often concerned grotesque scenes and unusual creatures representing various political figures and war themed subject matter. I was reminded of the work of Alfred Kubin in seeing Weber's lithographs.

This second gallery has the best collection of Weber's lithographs. Just click through the titles in the white window at the top of the page.

3rd Gallery