Posts Tagged ‘bees’
Sunset Bees
Friday, February 3rd, 2012
Sunset Bees by Amy Crook, $59
Somehow, when I don’t know what to paint, bees keep coming to mind! I suppose they do figure in two things I love quite a bit, Winnie-the-Pooh and Sherlock Holmes. Who can forget “In Which We are Introduced to Winnie-the-Pooh and Some Bees, and the Stories Begin”? And Holmes’ desire to retire to Sussex and keep bees is equally famous, though in the modern day I keep wanting to see him take up urban beekeeping instead and have box-hives on the roof.
This painting was a bit of an experiment with using watercolor ground to prime over the gesso on the canvas, and then using watercolors for the painting. The color tended to sink into the grooves and dry pale, which gives the sky a dreamy feeling of a sunset seen obliquely through the branches, and the bees flitting overhead.
Sunset Bees, 2.75″x2.75″ oil paint on canvas with 5″ wooden easel, $59 with free shipping.
Below you can see the painting tucked into a bookshelf with my Pooh and Piglet bank, though in this case it looks a bit like Pooh is protecting Piglet from a horror of bees. Hah.
Sunset Bees with easel, by Amy Crook, $59
Tags: bees, for sale, tiny painting, watercolor
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Twee Bees
Wednesday, July 13th, 2011
Twee Bees by Amy Crook
Wednesday is for weebley bees!
I swear, every time I go to deliberately paint bees, they come out painfully twee. And yet, I can’t help but really like this happy, tubby little guy:
Twee Bees, detail, by Amy Crook
You can see above how the wings are actually little droplet-shaped salt pools, as well as the usual rounds for the blue flowers. I’m experimenting a bit with actually making things out of my salt art and not just abstracts, and this is the first of them.
Twee Bees, work in progress, by Amy Crook
I used a paintbrush to pull the colorless pools (no ink in the wings) into wing-like shapes, though I found the salt tended to form a bigger crystal at the pointy end. Also, the bees ended up with just one wing each, oops.
They do look rather charming in a frame, though, which is a bonus.
Twee Bees, framed, by Amy Crook
Tags: bees, pen and ink, salt, watercolor
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13 Pink Roses
Tuesday, June 29th, 2010
13 Pink Roses by Amy Crook, $59
The 13th rose is barely on the canvas, sneaking my lucky number onto this rosebush. Branches lean out over a white fence, and bees buzz lazily around the flowers. The bright blue summer sky has a pale summer sun shining down, and the whole image is painted in oils on a small four-by-five-inch canvas board.
The edges of this canvas board are finished, the image wrapping around to the sides to add a some extra dimension. The easel is included, so this painting can be displayed as is on a bookshelf, desk, windowsill, or anywhere you want a little lazy summer sunshine.
13 Pink Roses, 4″x5″ oil painting on canvas board with 5″ tall wooden easel, $59 with free shipping.
13 Pink Roses by Amy Crook, $59
Tags: bees, flowers, for sale, oil painting, roses, summer, tiny painting
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Impressionist Flowers
Friday, June 4th, 2010
Impressionist Flowers by Amy Crook
With the tiny paintings, I will often paint a batch of skies, or water, or whatever, and go back in and decide what to do with it later. When I pulled out this warm blue sky to work on it again, I wanted to do something impressionistic for spring that really brought that feeling of warm sleepy days with bees buzzing around the flowers.
The edges of this canvas board are finished, the image wrapping around to the sides to add a some extra dimension. The easel is included, so this painting can be displayed as is on a bookshelf, desk, windowsill, or anywhere you want a little spring sunshine.
Impressionist Flowers, 6″x4″ oil painting on canvas board with 5″ tall wooden easel, sold.
Impressionist Flowers by Amy Crook
Tags: bees, canvas board, flowers, nfs, oil painting, pansies, snapdragons, tiny painting, violets
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