Colorful Cthulhus

Since artists first began putting Cthulhu to canvass, clay, and other mediums, green has been the default color. This likely comes from H.P. Lovecraft's description in "The Call of Cthulhu," where the Providence author wrote:

Everyone listened, and everyone was listening still when It lumbered slobberingly into sight and gropingly squeezed Its gelatinous green immensity through the black doorway into the tainted outside air of that poison city of madness.

So, understandably, delvers into strange visions have sought to faithfully uphold  Lovecraft's reptilian color scheme. The average Cthulhu seen in paintings, statues, and Squishable toys is green. Sometimes, though, deviations from the norm are just as interesting, if not more so. Here are a few Cthulhus that shimmer with other colors of the rainbow:

A black Cthulhu figurine by SOTA, from the Nightmares of Lovecraft Cthulhu collection.

A Cthulhu painting rendered in reddish hues. Perhaps a lesser known work by Richard Upton Pickman?

Three views of a purple Cthulhu idol.

A blue Cthulhu plush toy, seen in his natural inebriated state.

The horror of horrors! A rainbow Cthulhu that can be purchased in the online game, Second Life.

-Grim Blogger