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Green Sketch
Sunday, April 8th, 2012
Green Sketch by Amy Crook
Three shades of green pen and three of my favorite types of line work on a little page in my new sketchbook. I like the way the dark crosshatching fades to white, I’m going to have to use that in something, probably tentacles.
Happy Easter!
Tags: green, nfs, pen and ink, sketch
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Tentacle Deeps 30
Tuesday, March 20th, 2012
Tentacle Deeps 30 by Amy Crook, $222
I actually took the time to trim this cool green cardstock down to size, so it fits just fine in a 4″x6″ frame. I realize I have a ton of frames that size, from when I was trying to get the handmade postcards to fit. I finally gave up and started matting them into a bigger frame, so I’ve got a bunch of extra frames that obviously need tentacles.
The background is pure zoisite green, granulated and squamous just the way I like it. The foreground tentacles are a blue-black that gets bluer as the tentacles “recede” into the translucent background layers. I like the extra dimension the piece gets from colored paper and colored tentacles as well as the usual colored background, the whole thing is sort of eerie and otherworldly.
Also, green.
Tentacle Deeps 30, 6″x4″ watercolor on paper, $222 framed, with free shipping.
To purchase this piece, please contact STUDIO Gallery.
Tentacle Deeps 30, detail, by Amy Crook
The color in the above close-up shot is a bit off, my camera keeps trying to add red to correct the green, but it’s still cool. Below you can see it with my iPhone for scale. I always think it’s neat seeing the art reflected in the surface of the phone, even if I don’t love the reflections of the room in the glass on the artwork.
Tentacle Deeps 30, framed art by Amy Crook, $222
To purchase this piece, please contact STUDIO Gallery.
Tags: blue, crane and co, for sale, green, studio gallery, tentacle deeps, tentacles, watercolor
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Outlier
Friday, March 16th, 2012
Outlier, abstract art by Amy Crook, $399
Sometimes I can’t really explain why I like a piece of art, I just really do, and this is one of those. The scan really doesn’t do it justice, the green whorls and rays, and the purple lines joining the various salt pools. This one started with the salt pools in varying color intensities, then I put in the gel pen lines, and finally the spirals of watercolor. The watercolor picked up the glitter from the pen lines, and so there’s a subtle shimmer all through each one.
Outlier, 5″x7″ mixed media on paper, $399 framed, with free shipping.
Outlier, detail 1, by Amy Crook
Above is the smallest, darkest and furthest-flung of the salt pools. There’s a little scribbled spiral of purple around just this one outlying pool, and you can see how the glitter got distributed all through the spiral of watercolor. Below, a photo of three of the other pools in a row (and that wash of red in the upper left my camera seems determined to give this paper, sigh). I made an iPhone wallpaper of a similar shot, and I’m using it for my lock screen right now. Or at least until I change my mind again.
Outlier, detail 2, by Amy Crook
I like the way it looks in a frame, too, as though everything’s pulling against the purple lines and trying to find a way to sneak out of the frame entirely, tied together by forces you can’t quite name.
Outlier, framed art by Amy Crook
Tags: for sale, glitter gel pen, green, iridescent, purple, salt, watercolor
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Tentacle Deeps 29
Tuesday, March 13th, 2012
Tentacle Deeps 29, watercolor by Amy Crook, $222
Unlike last week’s tentacles, these, you can have if you want to. Yes, Tuesday is upon us once again and this time I used the opaque Japanese watercolors on black paper to create a wonderful bright green background with an intriguing squamous texture. I used black paint to put in the tentacles, letting it re-wet the green and mix in, giving the whole thing a monochromatic, layered feeling. I’ve been trying to get back to doing the fading layers of tentacles, dark at first with lighter and more transparent ones fading off into the distance, though I do love some of the ones I’ve done with a single layer, as well. Basically, I just like tentacles. I know, you’re shocked.
I’ve been flipping through some of the last year or so’s worth of art, and it’s interesting to see how the tentacles started out in one specific style and then evolved into something else. Revisiting those older pieces, I’ve been revisiting some of the original ideas, like having the wash only take up a portion of the page instead of running edge to edge.
Tentacle Deeps 29, 5″x7″ watercolor on paper, $222 framed, with free shipping.
Tentacle Deeps 29, detail, by Amy Crook
Above is your usual close-up of the reaching tentacles. Maybe one of these days I’ll take a photo of them reaching toward the camera, instead, just for variety. Below is the usual picture in the usual frame. Who ever thought there’d be “the usual tentacles” in your life?
Tentacle Deeps 29, framed art by Amy Crook, $222
Tags: black paper, for sale, green, tentacle deeps, tentacles, watercolor
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Moonglow
Monday, March 5th, 2012
Moonglow by Amy Crook, $323
Sparkly green and purples sit suspended in deep, rich black. For some reason it reminded me of one of my favorite oil paint colors, even though it’s not at all the same shade of purple, but I still named the piece Moonglow after the paint.
The watercolor paint I used in the salt pools separated, with the green pigment all going into the salt and leaving the sparkly violet swirls attached to the paper for a very nifty effect. I carried it through with purple and green glitter gel pen, adding smaller spiral stars and drawing in the eerie, barely-there moon.
I’ve totally embraced my sparkly side, too, and bought more glittery pens in Japantown as well as some pearlescent paints. Expect to see more shiny!
Moonglow, 7″x5″ mixed media on paper, $323 framed, with free shipping.
Moonglow, detail 1, by Amy Crook
The first detail photo, above, totally exaggerates the separation of the paint, the sunlight making the salt practically glow while the purple spirals catch the light. The second one, below, shows the play of green and purple gel pen in the moon. Spirals!
Moonglow, detail 2, by Amy Crook
There’s no framed photo, I couldn’t seem to get one that wasn’t basically my reflection, sorry. You know what my frames look like, anyway.
Tags: black paper, for sale, glitter gel pen, green, iridescent, moon, salt, violet, watercolor
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Peacock Blue
Friday, March 2nd, 2012
Peacock Blue, abstract art by Amy Crook, $269
When I was a kid, I had occasion to visit a peacock farm for reasons I really don’t remember now, but I was allowed to gather whole bouquet of discarded feathers. I had them in the corner of my room for years, slowly mouldering in a vase, and I’ve had an odd love for them ever since. My favorite colors are in the cool end of the spectrum, and while I don’t wear a lot of bling I do love shiny, iridescent decorations still.
This piece started with pure ultramarine blue spirals, and then I added salt and droplets of water while the paint was still wet. Once I had the results, I decided to carry through the bright blue through a softer blue and out to cool green. As ever, it’s impossible to really reproduce certain shades of teal with a monitor, but then, I always think these pieces look 100% better in real life.
Peacock Blue, 7″x5″ salt and watercolor on paper, $269 framed, with free shipping.
Peacock Blue, detail, by Amy Crook
I am totally in love with the way watercolor pigments ebb and flow in watery washes, leaving them darker at the edges and softening unexpectedly in layers of texture as the water dries. In fact, I’m using Mist as my computer wallpaper right now, which is all about those textures created when paper, water and pigment interact. Speaking of wallpaper, I used a completely different detail photo to make myself you an iPhone wallpaper.
This piece comes in a frame to protect the salt during shipping and generally make everyone’s life easier, and you can see it framed and ready to go below. And if it looks like the same frame I always use, that’s because it is, but there is no shortage of plain black frames in the world, so never fear.
Peacock Blue, framed art by Amy Crook, $269
If you want to talk to me about payments, pigments or even pomegranates (I’m allergic), feel free to comment here or email me.
Tags: blue, for sale, green, peacock feathers, salt, watercolor
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Blue-Green Spirals
Friday, February 24th, 2012
Blue-Green Spirals, abstract watercolor by Amy Crook, $222
And here’s the last of the Spirals Trio, the blue-green ones that don’t overlap at all. The two darker shades of green are nearly the same here, though there’s a little more variation in real life. Blue-green shades are really the hardest to reproduce electronically, they always end up muddy or too much in one or the other direction. In this one I tried to let the spirals really dance together without putting one atop the other, so they swirl and snuggle and intertwine instead.
Blue-Green Spirals, 5″x7″ watercolor on paper, $222 with free shipping.
Spirals Trio, framed art by Amy Crook, $666
Special: Get all three pieces together in matching frames (normally +$60) for $666. Click the button below or let me know if you want to set up a payment plan (even for just one piece).
Tags: black paper, blue, for sale, green, japanese watercolor, spirals, spirals trio, triptych
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