Shoggoth in Bloom

“In the peach-sorbet light of sunrise, a cluster of rocks glistens. The boulders themselves are black, bleak, sea-worn and ragged. But over them, the light refracts through a translucent layer of jelly, mounded six feet deep in places, glowing softly in the dawn. Rising above it, the stalks are evident as opaque silhouettes, each nodding under the weight of a fruiting body.” - from “Shoggoths in Bloom” by Elizabeth Bear

I wanted to do a piece inspired by one of my favorite recent mythos stories.  Ended up spending quite a while on a space art detour as I was working out the Milky Way background.