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Blue Moon 4

Friday, August 24th, 2012

Blue Moon 4 by Amy Crook, $899

This piece took forever! Twelve weeks of little spirals in the interstices of my day, fifteen minutes here and an hour there, until finally, finally it’s done.

I really liked the texture pattern on the couch in B is for Baker Street, interior, and so I thought, wouldn’t that make a cool pattern for the night sky around this mysterious blue moon? I really need to learn to think before I start spiraling sometimes, though, because the difference between that wee couch and this big piece of paper was a lot of hours. So many hours. @_@

I actually really love the result, though, and I’ve got the piece on display in my studio until someone takes it home to decorate their own life.

Blue Moon 4, 8″x8″ pen & ink and watercolor on paper, $899 with free shipping.

Blue Moon 4, barely begun

Above, you can see an Instagram history of the piece, from day 1 to day eleventy bajillion to present. ALL the spirals! Below, I’ve framed it and hung it on the wall above my writing desk. Why yes, that is a Jack in the Box holiday-themed antenna ball, why do you ask?

Blue Moon 4, framed art by Amy Crook

Title: Blue Moon 4
8 in. x 8 in. pen & ink and watercolor on Fluid watercolor paper
$899 for the original (tax will be added if you live in CA)
Frame is included at no additional charge
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Tags: all the spirals, blue moon, crosshatching, for sale, moon, pen and ink, spirals, watercolor
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Blue Moon 3

Friday, June 8th, 2012

Blue Moon 3 by Amy Crook, $222

It’s interesting to me that so many of my moons are similar, but the three Blue Moon pieces are all very different. This one uses no salt at all, and takes advantage of the textured paper and graining black color to create a strange sort of anti-shine around the moon, in several concentric circles. The ring of white where I wanted to preserve both the edge of the moon and the edge of the sky is a stark contrast to the dark black that’s next, and then there’s a softer, lighter ring followed by the outer ring of spiky black. It reminds me a little of looking at the moon through a frosty window or dark storm cloud, with the stars obscured and the moon a strange, fuzzy glow.

Blue Moon 3, 8″x8″ watercolor on paper, $222 with free shipping.

Blue Moon 3, detail, by Amy Crook

Above you can see a close-up of the white ring where the two parts of the painting never quite meet. Below, you can see the painting hanging out with my phone. It’s ever so slightly bigger than 8″ across, so it doesn’t quite fit into the frame I have — it’ll have to go into a 10″x10″ frame with a mat, whenever it finds its final home.

Blue Moon 3 by Amy Crook, $222

Tags: blue moon, for sale, moon, watercolor
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Blue Moon 2

Monday, April 2nd, 2012

Blue Moon 2, abstract art by Amy Crook, $323

Even though this piece shares a name and some materials with my first Blue Moon, that’s about all they have in common. The blues in this are all muted except for the vivid French Ultramarine moon itself, and even the little halos of iridescent paint became quite subtle painted wet-in-wet.

I made the 7 stars the usual way with paint and salt and water, but the moon was part of my newest experiment where I put paint into some water I had already saturated with as much salt as I could boil into it. Pretty much all of this week’s art was made with this technique, for some fascinating results. Sparkly ones!

Blue Moon 2, 5″x5.25″ salt and watercolor on paper, $323 framed, with free shipping.

Blue Moon 2, detail 1, by Amy Crook

You can see little particles of the iridescent paint around the borders of the halo, and I thought the shot of the moon itself came out so well I made a wallpaper for you. Yes, you.

Below, you can see the lightning-like formations around the edges of some of the pools, and the way I brushed the outer rim of the salt pools with the blue-black paint, which sinks into the crevices and gives it deep shadows.

Blue Moon 2, detail 2, by Amy Crook

Since this one isn’t quite square, I haven’t framed it yet, but it’ll get its lovely black frame before it goes to live in its new home.

Tags: black, blue, blue moon, for sale, moon, salt, watercolor
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Blue Moon

Thursday, February 2nd, 2012

Blue Moon by Amy Crook

I chose soft blue pen and ink to pair with a rich, deep blue background, and then added salt in two different ways for texture. The brightest stars are the now-familiar salt pools, and there’s a scattering of dimmer ones formed by salt sprinkled onto the damp watercolor paint and brushed off once it dried. It was still too stark for me, so I went and found my tiny dot-card sample of interference blue and added haloes of half-there light around each salt pool and the moon, too, which you can barely see in the above scan, and better down in the detail shots below.

Blue Moon, 7″x5″ mixed media on paper, nfs.

Blue Moon, detail 1, by Amy Crook

Above you can see three of the salt pools up close and personal, light glinting off their facets and a faint shadow of the interference blue. Below, the shimmer’s caught the light and you can see the brushed haloes around each large object, as well as the little starbursts of texture in the background of the deep blue sky.

Blue Moon, detail 2, by Amy Crook

And of course I took a photo of it framed, once I had it all ready for the show. In the sunlight, the background looks less black, though it’s still velvety-matte against the shimmering, sparkling stars and moon.