Posts Tagged ‘copper’
Copper Beeches
Thursday, January 26th, 2012
Copper Beeches by Amy Crook, $323
This is one of those pieces that’s frustratingly difficult to color match or photograph in any reasonably representative way. The background is warm golds and orange-browns with layers of spirals in more browns and metallic copper. The salt pools are all centered over shiny copper spirals, though the salt itself didn’t pick up much color at all from either the background or the copper. There’s even a few golden leaves floating subtly through everything else, and that and the original Sherlock Holmes story are where the piece gets its name.
Copper Beeches, 8″x8″ salt and watercolor on paper, $323 framed with free shipping.
Copper Beeches, detail, by Amy Crook
Tags: brown, copper, for sale, gold, orange, salt, watercolor
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Moon Dark
Friday, January 6th, 2012
Moon Dark by Amy Crook, $333
I really love how stark and simple this piece is. I was tempted to add more color to it, but in the end I think the copper moon and golden, salt-haoled stars are best on their own. In a simple black frame, it’s really striking, a slice of night for a desk, wall or bedside table.
Moon Dark, 5″x5″ watercolor and salt on paper, $333 framed, with free shipping.
Moon Dark, detail, by Amy Crook
Here you can see how the salt picked up a tiny bit of the iridescence from the paint, though mostly it sparkles all on its own.
Moon Dark, framed art by Amy Crook, $333
Tags: black, copper, for sale, gold, moon, salt, spirals, stars, watercolor
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Copper Midnight
Thursday, October 6th, 2011
Copper Midnight by Amy Crook, $323
This is the first of a pair of pieces I made together using Arches Cover Black paper. I love that this velvety black paper is fade-proof, because it’s not dyed but instead turns black from a chemical reaction set off in the paper. It’s art with science! Not my science, but still.
I made salt circles with my trusty orange pen, which barely picked up at all into the opaque white crystals this time. Then I used metallic copper watercolor for the ripples around each little pool, and copper gel pen for the signature, making an eerie monochrome piece very appropriate for the Halloween season.
Copper Midnight, 5″x5″ mixed media on paper, $323, framed, with free shipping.
Below you can see how the iridescent paint catches the light and glows with shimmery copper.
Copper Midnight, detail 1, by Amy Crook
Here you can see just one salt pool, with the copper coating the salt on one side and making it look like it’s almost made of some strange metallic crystal instead of mundane salt. I’ve always liked how each little ring of salt is its own tiny henge of sorts, big crystals rising up around the scattered few in the center.
Copper Midnight, detail 2, by Amy Crook
When the sunlight isn’t hitting them, the places where the paint was thinnest almost sink completely back into the black paper like ghosts, though it seems to float above the paper where it’s thickest. You can see it in its frame, below, with my iPhone for scale.
Copper Midnight, framed, by Amy Crook, $323
Tags: black, copper, for sale, iridescent, pen and ink, salt, watercolor
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Copper Blue
Friday, September 9th, 2011
Copper Blue by Amy Crook, $333
This piece is rather the inverse of yesterday’s, with the salt pools in a violet-tinged blue and the background painted in the metallic copper watercolor. The circles around each pool of salt are the darkest and most iridescent, where the places where the paint is thin are a warm golden brown with very little shimmer to them. This was my first time using this paint, the twin to the little pot of iridescent teal I used on Summer Rain.
I have to admit the nerd in me wishes it was more bronze than copper, so I could make some sort of Ravenclaw reference, but it’s not to be.
Copper Blue, 5″x7″ mixed media on paper, $333, framed, with free shipping.
I love the way the copper paint looks where it overlaps this little zigguart of blue salt, a bit like antique silvered glass.
Copper Blue, detail 1, by Amy Crook
The iridescent paint takes on a rich red sheen in certain lights, giving the whole piece depth.
Copper Blue, detail 2, by Amy Crook
You can see how the matte black frame lets the painting shine through on its own, and how just a slight change in angle can bring out the changing colors of the paint and the sparkle of the salt.
Copper Blue, framed, by Amy Crook, $333
Tags: blue, copper, for sale, pen and ink, salt, watercolor
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Ouroboros
Monday, May 24th, 2010
Ouroboros by Amy Crook
The touches of copper paint glow brightly in the photograph, as though the camera picked up the particles of shimmery metal in the paint.
Ouroboros was painted as another experiment, and is one of the abstracts I’m the most pleased with. The copper swirl of the snakes eating tails concludes with one escaping the endless spiral. The rough white shape on its periwinkle background calls to my mind a giant wing against a twilit sky, Quetzalcoatl overseeing his little cousins perhaps. The metallic paint highlights here and there throughout the painting in subtle and unsubtle ways to add dimension that goes well with the textured brush strokes.
Ouroboros, 16″x20″ oil on canvas, $1199 with free shipping.
The edges of this canvas are finished, and ready for display as is. I’m also happy to frame it for you for a small additional fee.
Tags: abstract sale, copper, oil painting, ouroboros, snake
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