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Urgent Grounding
Thursday, September 2nd, 2010
Urgent Grounding by Amy Crook
One of the hardest things about art is knowing when a piece is done.
This painting started out as a quick sketch that I filled in with some messy linework in a rich forest green. I started working in the background of rich orangey gold, and then at one point I stepped back and said, you know, I think I like it just as it is. I’ve had it hanging in my living room for a while now, and I haven’t ever wanted to go back and mess with it.
Urgent Grounding, 30″x24″ oil on canvas, $899 with free shipping. $90 of your money will go to charity.
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Translucent Pelagic Octopus
Thursday, August 12th, 2010
Translucent Pelagic Octopus tiny painting by Amy Crook
Today’s tiny painting is a Translucent Pelagic Octopus, a deep-sea creature that floats ghostlike in the dark ocean. They have some phosphorescence in blues and reds and even a bit of gold to go with the white, and seem to be sculptures of living glass. Iridescent paint gives the image a big of shimmer, adding to the effect.
He’s giving you a cheerful hello wave from his tiny canvas, which is about the size of a postcard. He comes with a small wooden easel to easily display him on a flat surface such as a bookshelf, mantelpiece, desk, cubicle, or very patient cat.
Pelagic Octopus, 4″x5″ oil painting on canvas board, $59 with free shipping. 10% of your money will go to charity.
I’m going to list him on Etsy once I’ve had the chance to take some extra photos, but for now here’s a simple Paypal button for your buying pleasure:
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Mystic Cave
Friday, August 6th, 2010
Mystic Cave by Amy Crook - click for larger view
This painting contains the four elements in harmony, the sky above and earth below, water stretching out from the rocky shore and the glow of a fire coming from the cave. I originally started it for the cover of a book, but we ended up going a different direction. Still, it’s one of my favorite small paintings, simple and peaceful with a small hint of a hidden secret.
The edges of the canvas aren’t finished, but the painting can be hung as is, or slipped into a frame.
Mystic Cave, 9″x12″ oil painting on canvas, $399 with free shipping. $40 of your money will go to charity.
Tags: air, cave, earth, elements, fire, for sale, moon, oil painting, water
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Objects in Painting May Be Smaller Than They Appear
Thursday, July 29th, 2010
Objects in Painting May Be Smaller Than They Appear by Amy Crook
I painted this with a model a few years back, and I’ve always really loved the way it came out, the soothing blues and brush strokes combined with the pensive expression on the model. I went through a period of rebellion against the Renaissance tendency to paint nude men as though it was a very cold day indeed, and in this case ended up giving the model a bit of a boost (though it was a warm room) and that’s where the painting’s title comes from.
This painting is unframed but ready to hang as is.
Objects in Painting May Be Smaller Than They Appear, 24″x36″ oil on canvas, $1299 with free shipping. $130 of your money will go to charity.
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Green Angel
Thursday, July 8th, 2010
Green Angel by Amy Crook
This is yet another painting done off a model, from a photo this time of him lounging in bed. I wanted to imagine an angel with butterfly wings, not a tiny fairy but a full man-sized creature, fallen to earth to partake of the pleasures only to be found here. His wings are tattered from his fall but, I hope, still functional, still able to carry him up above if not all the way back from whence he came.
This small oil painting is on stretched canvas and framed in an antiqued silver wooden frame. I have it hanging by the light in my bedroom where I see it as I enter and exit, flicking the switch off and on, though I never wired it up for hanging — there’s just a nail in the wall and the frame balances there quite well without.
Green Angel, 10″x8″ oil painting on canvas, 11.5″x9.5″ framed, $599 with free shipping. $60 of your money will go to charity.
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WIP: Molten Sun
Monday, July 5th, 2010
Molten Sun, work in progress detail, by Amy Crook
After finishing Molten Sky, I hung it up in my apartment to dry, and slowly got an idea for ways to make the single idea into a series. This is the second one, also 24″ square. For a long time it looked like it had a bite out of it and made me crave Oreos, but now I’ve finally got the metallic copper, bronze and gold filled in the “bite.” I’m not quite sure how I’m going to finish it off, but for now it’s drying in the same spot the other one occupied, where I can look up and see it and contemplate.
Tags: amber, oil painting, work in progress
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13 Pink Roses
Tuesday, June 29th, 2010
13 Pink Roses by Amy Crook
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. 10% of your money will go to the charity in the sidebar.
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13 Pink Roses by Amy Crook
This makes a great companion piece to my other tiny painting, Impressionist Flowers.
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