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Brown
Monday, July 26th, 2010
Brown, detail, by Amy Crook
This is another monoprint, a one-of-a-kind print created by painting directly onto a blank plate with thick water-based paints and then running through a printing press like an etching. You can see the places where the brush strokes stood up to the process in the black shadows, but the outer edges turned to a softer, more uniform texture as they went through the press.
See a face in the shapes? You’re supposed to. It’s my secret who it was based off, though.
Brown, 3″x3″ monoprint on 7″x10″ watercolor paper, $299 with free shipping. $30 of your money will go to charity.
This print is not currently framed, and would need to be matted or framed to be displayed.
Brown by Amy Crook
Remember, you can always see the images larger by clicking on them.
Tags: for sale, monoprint
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7 Chakras
Tuesday, July 20th, 2010
7 Chakras by Amy Crook
This is a much larger piece than the monoprints I’ve been posting up until now, and my terrible photography is unfortunately one of the reasons I’ve been putting off posting them. The page comes out much more buff-colored than the reality, which is the soft cream of heavy watercolor paper.
This is the third of my monoprints featuring chakras, and by far the largest. When I printed it the colors ran, so that the top image came out clear, and the lower chakras were blurred into each other and their colored backgrounds. You can see them more clearly in the detail images below, and you can always click on any image to see the larger version.
7 Chakras, 11″x30″ monoprint on watercolor paper, $399 with free shipping. $40 of your money will go to charity.
This one-of-a-kind print is on a single sheet of thick, archival watercolor paper, and will need to be framed or matted to be suitable for display. I’m happy to help you out with that for the cost of materials.
Want a payment plan? You can do 4 automatic monthly payments of $100 if you’d like — I’ll ship your art as soon as I get the last payment.
7 Chakras, detail 1, by Amy Crook
The plates on this page are all 3″ wide, while the page itself is 11″, and the whole piece is 30″ long (2.5 feet!). I’ll probably ship it rolled, unless you choose to have it framed.
7 Chakras, detail 2, by Amy Crook
Tags: chakras, for sale, monoprint
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Second and Seventh
Monday, July 19th, 2010
Second and Seventh, detail, by Amy Crook
This monoprint is another one in a series I did featuring the chakras, in this case showing a man reaching up for the Seventh chakra, enlightenment, while being held down by his very active Second chakra. He strives to rise above while his base physical being keeps him down to earth, so his goal seems to him to be out of reach, as if on another plane entirely. On the other hand, his connection to the ground is also very fuzzy, his feet lost in the fog as he puts all his energy toward his goal and none of it toward his real life.
There’s something compelling to me about the pull between physical and spiritual for many of us, and the disconnect that forms as a result.
Second and Seventh, 8″x11″ monoprint on watercolor paper, $299 with free shipping. $30 of your money will go right to charity.
This piece is printed on a simple sheet of watercolor paper, and would need to be framed or matted before hanging, which I’m happy to do for the cost of materials.
Second and Seventh by Amy Crook
Tags: chakras, for sale, monoprint
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Fog
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
Fog, detail, by Amy Crook
This piece was made deliberately vague, just a hint of a figure hiding in the violet fog. The monoprinting process helped to further add blur and squishiness to the image, so that it’s only our human nature to see a face wherever there’s the right arrangement of shapes that brings out the figure at all.
Fog, 3″x3″ print on 8″x11″ watercolor paper, $299 with free shipping. $30 of your money will go to charity.
The framing of the image on the paper adds to the sense of mystery, as though it’s a tiny window into something larger, the open area to the right and above adding a feeling of vastness.
This print is on a sheet of paper that is unframed, and will need to be matted and/or framed to be suitable for hanging. I’m always happy to frame things for you for the cost of materials, and shipping’s always free.
Fog by Amy Crook
Tags: monoprint
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Blood From a Stone
Tuesday, July 6th, 2010
Blood From a Stone by Amy Crook
The origin of this monoprint’s title is a bit odd — it’s not really named because of the magenta “veins” in the blue marble, but because the 3 pure inks used here (blue, yellow and magenta) are the colors you need to mix to get a really good, realistic blood red. I suppose it says a lot about me that I spent a lot of time figuring out how to mix the perfect shade of blood, but everyone needs a hobby, right?
Painted to resemble natural stone with inclusions of magenta veins and a few small flecks of yellow “gold,” this piece has always had a rather soothing quality to me despite the morbid name.
Like my other one-of-a-kind prints, this is just a sheet of thick paper, so it’d need to be framed or matted in order to be displayed, but I’m always happy to do that for you for the cost of materials.
Blood From a Stone, 4″x6″ monoprint on 8″x10″ watercolor paper, $299 with free shipping. $30 of your money will go to charity.
Tags: for sale, marble, monoprint
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At First Sight
Thursday, July 1st, 2010
At First Sight by Amy Crook
I went through a period where I was fascinated with the idea of the chakras, and I did several monoprints related to them. This one uses the colors are all of the lower chakras to make flame, and the symbols for the 2nd and 6th chakras, desire and the third eye.
Our culture has a whole myth of “love at first sight” that I’ve never really bought into — I think that what you get at first sight comes from somewhere else, though it might eventually be pulled upward into the realms of the heart. At first sight all you get is a visual, some social cues from dress and superficial action, and no idea of what the person is really like inside. This piece reflects that idea, that we expect to see into them with our third eye, when really we’re seeing with our sacral instincts, desire and wanting rather than the love that comes from accepting a person’s flaws as well as their really nice body.
At First Sight, 2″x6″ monoprint on 6.5″x9″ watercolor paper, $299 with free shipping. $30 of your money will go to charity.
Tags: chakras, for sale, love, monoprint
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Reflect
Friday, June 18th, 2010
Reflect, detail, by Amy Crook
This monoprint has always made me think of giant, ancient trees growing right at the edge of a pond, reflected such that it’s hard to tell where the trees end and the water begins. You might see something totally different, of course, since this is a very abstract image. I did a couple of prints with this color scheme, I’ll try to post the other one tomorrow or next week. Actually, I used to dye my hair both of those colors at one point, though these days I don’t like to bleach it out in order to go blue or green, so mostly I stick to red or purple.
A monoprint is created by using thick, fingerpaint-like water-based inks to paint onto a blank acrylic printing plate, and then running the result through a press with wet paper just like an etching. It creates a single one-of-a-kind print that’s a merger of painting and randomness, the image flipped and often changed by the pressure and the way the ink interacts with the water-soaked paper. I would often print half a dozen in the course of a session and only keep the ones I really liked.
Reflect, 3″x3″ monoprint on 9″x9″ watercolor paper, $299 with free shipping; $30 of your money will go to the charity in the sidebar.
Reflect by Amy Crook
Details about Reflect:
- It’s one of a kind, not part of an edition
- It’s printed onto watercolor paper, and would need to be matted or framed before display
- I can matte or frame it for you for a small fee, or you can do it yourself, either way shipping is always free
- The image is 3″ square, and the paper is 9″ square (well, mostly square)
- The top detail image has the most accurate colors
- When you buy this piece, $30 will go to the charity that’s in the sidebar at the time you buy it
Tags: green, monoprint, purple
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