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Hellfire

Friday, November 9th, 2012

Hellfire, abstract painting by Amy Crook, $450

Oranges and reds are some of the hardest colors to reproduce really well in Photoshop, alas. This piece has a great, intense bright orange that lightens up to golden-yellow in one corner, and holds a secret little demon-face in the other that scowls at you from out of the flame, or perhaps is made from it. The texture is enhanced with a bit of brown in the low spots, and the little face got a tiny bit of extra love to pull it out of the background using Copic markers.

Hellfire, 12″x12″ acrylic paint and Copic marker on canvas, $450 with free shipping.

Hellfire, detail, by Amy Crook

Above, you can see the scowly little demon-face glaring up at you from the canvas. Below, I stepped back and got a photo of it with some of the stuff on my desk, including pens, pencils, and a Jack in the Box Christmas antenna ball, because I am a very special sort of artist.

Hellfire by Amy Crook

Title: Hellfire
12 in. x 12 in. acrylic paint and Copic marker on canvas
$450 for the original (tax will be added if you live in CA)
Frame is not included, canvas edges are painted it will be wired for hanging as is
Shipping is free anywhere in the world
Payment plans are available, just email me
The button below will take you to Paypal – if you’d like to pay another way, just let me know and we’ll work it out

Tags: acrylic paint, canvas, copic marker, for sale, orange
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O is for Origami

Thursday, November 8th, 2012

O is for Origami, calligraphic illumination by Amy Crook, $299

I believe this pattern is actually for an origami fried egg, when done with yellow paper and the colors reversed, but I wanted a big, bold shape for my O. The four corners created little points when folded back, so I actually drew the gold pattern on the entire 3″x3″ square background and then glued just the points on the back of the O down. The O floats above the background serenely, and it has to be framed with no glass in order to make room.

This was the first non-flat letter I made, though there’s a few more coming, including the ampersand (&). I’m nearly done with the series, half a dozen letters to go, so if you are curious about one we haven’t seen yet (perhaps for a holiday gift!), just drop me a line and I’ll give you a sneak preview.

O is for Origami, 5″x5″ mixed media on paper, $299 with free shipping.

O is for Origami, detail, by Amy Crook

Above, you can see the way the origami floats on its background, letting the gold glow beneath it as it sits serenely above, the whole thing surrounded by a simple red border. Below, M is for Majuscule and Miniscule is hanging out with my O to make OM!

O is for Origami and M is for Majuscule & Miniscule, framed art by Amy Crook

Title: O is for Origami
5 in. x 5 in. Origami paper, watercolor and glitter gel pen on paper
$299 for the original (tax will be added if you live in CA)
Frame is not included, but can be added for $50 (shipping included)
Shipping is free anywhere in the world
Payment plans are available, just email me
The button below will take you to Paypal – if you’d like to pay another way, just let me know and we’ll work it out

Tags: alphabet, calligraphy, for sale, glitter gel pen, gold, illumination, orange, origami, watercolor
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Tentacle Reach

Tuesday, June 26th, 2012

Tentacle Reach by Amy Crook, $222

One of the colors I have in my flower-shaped Japanese watercolor palette is a vivid, almost fluorescent orange that makes a surprisingly subtle wash. I started doing another Tentacle Deeps with the red pen on the orange wash, but i liked the reaching-out gesture of the first crosshatched tentacle so much I decided to do something a little different.

I grabbed my Apricot fountain pen and brought another tentacle down from above, the two of them not quite touching as they try to cross the distance. The result echoes a lot of iconic images without actually copying any of them.

Also, there’s spirals.

Tentacle Reach, 7″x5″ pen & ink and watercolor on paper, $222 with free shipping.

Tentacle Reach, detail, by Amy Crook

Above, you can see a close-up of the crosshatched tentacles and the aching space between them. The red pen has a fatter nib, and its ink tended to bleed more where the paint wash was denser, which gives the orange tentacle a more ethereal feel by comparison. Below, you can see them tucked in a frame, hanging out with my jellyfish phone for scale.

Tentacle Reach, framed art by Amy Crook

Tags: crosshatching, for sale, orange, pen and ink, tentacles, watercolor
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Orange Face sketch

Sunday, March 18th, 2012

Orange Face sketch by Amy Crook

This is actually a virulent orange in my wee sketchbook, but by desaturating it a little bit, you can see some of the brushstrokes that a super-bright orange hides on a monitor. I sketched this with a sumi-e brush and the orange paint leftover from making my goldfish, using the pause screen on whatever DVD I was watching as a very loose reference.

I’m pleased that, although the paper buckled some, the paint didn’t bleed through onto the next page.

Tags: nfs, orange, sketch, watercolor
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Implied Goldfish

Thursday, March 15th, 2012

Implied Goldfish, watercolor by Amy Crook, $399

This is the sort of art that just makes me feel a little bit more delighted with the world when I look at it. Happy little goldfish swim around partially camouflaged by the white paper, while rings of sparkly blue gel pin circle the three-dimensional salt formations. Are they stones? The first fat drops of rain? Strange portals to another world? The implications are endless.

Implied Goldfish, 7″x5″ mixed media on paper, $399 framed, with free shipping.

Now here’s where I admit something very silly: today’s art is inspired by one of my mismatched cereal bowls. Really they’re rice bowls, but I mostly use them for Cheerios.

Omnomnom Fishies!

I buy a lot of my dishes in Japantown and this is no exception. Maybe one of these days I’ll do a giant picspam on a Weds of a bunch of them. There’s kitties!

Below, you can see the sparkly salt and glittery pen next to the totally unconcerned fishies. The color’s a bit off, because this is the paper my camera likes to think is secretly red (hint: it’s not).

Implied Goldfish, detail, by Amy Crook

And finally we have the usual framed art, a peaceful little pond to sit on your desk or tuck into a tiny bit of wall space.

Implied Goldfish, framed art by Amy Crook, $399

Tags: blue, fish, for sale, glitter gel pen, orange, salt, watercolor
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Tentacle Deeps 27

Tuesday, February 28th, 2012

Tentacle Deeps 27 by Amy Crook, $222

We have ghostly tentacles writhing against a textured wash of sunset red, orange and gold for our Tentacle Tuesday. I really love all the texture and detail on this one, so I made a wallpaper to share. I make these sort of huge and not particularly specific on the size so that you can just tell your computer to fill the screen and it won’t matter if some of one edge or another gets cropped. I also make the tentacles go left to right because that’s what works for me on my screen, I almost always have certain windows open so I mostly see a few little stripes of background at the left and right edges.

I really like the way the textured paper here created amazing edges on the wash, and then on top of that I used salt in the more traditional manner to create the almost flamelike blossoms of paint in the background. I was so in love with it, I decided to paint the tentacles in washed-out, transparent black to let the background really show through. The smaller, fainter tentacles give it a sense of looking out over a field of them, almost like seaweed rising up from the ocean bottom.

Tentacle Deeps 27, 5.25″x7″ watercolor on paper, $222 framed, with free shipping.

This isn’t quite small enough for a standard frame, and I haven’t yet matted it properly into a larger one for photography, but I suspect you’ve seen enough framed tentacles by now to know the drill. Instead, enjoy the spooky bottom-up detail shot.

Tentacle Deeps 27, detail, by Amy Crook

If you’d like to talk to me about tentacles, art, or payment plans for either, just email me!

Tags: orange, red, salt, sunset, tentacle deeps, tentacles, watercolor
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Spiral Bookmark 1

Saturday, February 18th, 2012

Spiral Bookmark 1
by Amy Crook

And so we wave a cheerful goodbye to Bookmark Week with this last installment.

I was experimenting with these pigment-dense watercolor sticks I picked up, using the teal and orange pair to create a very bright contrast indeed. I wasn’t quite happy with it as is, though, so I added in the silver spirals on top with this awesome silver brush pen I got in Japantown, which gives a nice bit of shine to the piece.

Spiral Bookmark 1, 1.5″x7″ watercolor and brush pen on paper, nfs, sold.

Spiral Bookmark 1, detail, by Amy Crook

Above you can see the various textures from the drawn lines to the washes created by running a wet brush over the watercolor stick, to the shining silver paint floating atop it all. Below, the bookmark sits happily with a book, just waiting to fulfill its intended purpose.