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Red-Violet Spirals

Red-Violet Spirals, abstract watercolor by Amy Crook

I’m going to mix up the schedule this week a little, I have three related pieces (this is the first) that I’ll post Monday-Wednesday-Friday, and then there’s Tentacles for Tuesday of course, and more tentacles in the form of a Weeble Squid for Thursday. In addition, on Friday I’ll post a special button to buy all three pieces framed and ready to display.

I have several sheets of this velvety black paper from days gone by, and I’ve torn it down into smaller pieces that I pull out sometimes when I’m not sure what I want to work on. I was wanting to do something immediate, which meant no salt, and so I got out my big palette of Japanese watercolors (yay birthday presents) and got all the pans wet. I took out three sheets of the black paper and layered spirals on each in a color family, experimenting with light and dark, overlapping and not. I think this was actually the third one finished, but I can’t quite remember.

I decided on the spirals because I love spirals. I have no idea why, I just do, and one of my things I wanted to do this year was paint more spirals on things. This one ended up looking almost like a Valentine, actually, with just a hint of a heart in the final arrangement of shapes.

Red-Violet Spirals, 5″x5″ watercolor on paper, $222 with free shipping.

My scanner did not like this series, and so you can get a better idea of the actual color in the photo below.

Spirals Trio, three watercolor abstracts by Amy Crook

Tags: black paper, burgundy, for sale, japanese watercolor, pink, red, spirals, spirals trio, triptych

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