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Tentanet
Saturday, February 4th, 2012
Tentanet sketch by Amy Crook
Another Saturday, another tentacle monster sketch! This time it’s tentacles over the internet, a subject of which I am obviously quite fond.
Tags: coloring book, pen and ink, sketch
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Blue Moon
Thursday, February 2nd, 2012
Blue Moon by Amy Crook, $333
I chose soft blue pen and ink to pair with a rich, deep blue background, and then added salt in two different ways for texture. The brightest stars are the now-familiar salt pools, and there’s a scattering of dimmer ones formed by salt sprinkled onto the damp watercolor paint and brushed off once it dried. It was still too stark for me, so I went and found my tiny dot-card sample of interference blue and added haloes of half-there light around each salt pool and the moon, too, which you can barely see in the above scan, and better down in the detail shots below.
This piece, and a number of my other moons, stars and skies, is up at Endgame in Oakland, CA for my mini-show Distant Skies. You can visit them in person upstairs in their open gaming area, and even buy them, which supports both the artist and the venue!
Blue Moon, 7″x5″ mixed media on paper, $333 framed, with free shipping.
Blue Moon, detail 1, by Amy Crook
Above you can see three of the salt pools up close and personal, light glinting off their facets and a faint shadow of the interference blue. Below, the shimmer’s caught the light and you can see the brushed haloes around each large object, as well as the little starbursts of texture in the background of the deep blue sky.
Blue Moon, detail 2, by Amy Crook
And of course I took a photo of it framed, once I had it all ready for the show. In the sunlight, the background looks less black, though it’s still velvety-matte against the shimmering, sparkling stars and moon.
Blue Moon, framed watercolor by Amy Crook, $333
Tags: blue, for sale, iridescent, moon, pen and ink, salt, spirals, watercolor
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Flying Spaghetti Monster
Saturday, January 28th, 2012
Flying Spaghetti Monster sketch by Amy Crook
Have you been Touched by His Noodly Appendage?
Tags: coloring book, doodle, nfs, pen and ink, sketch
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Harry Potter Valentines
Wednesday, January 25th, 2012
Harry Potter Valentine cartoon by Amy Crook
I wanted to make a silly Harry Potter Valentine card this year for my friends who love these characters, since not all of my friends got all fannish about Sherlock the way I did. One of them suggested Snape teaching Harry to brew those candy message hearts, and after googling for some bad Latin, this is the card front.
Of course, I couldn’t stop there, we had to see the results!
Harry & Snape's Candy Hearts
As you can see, someone’s got a bit of a crush on his teacher, but Snape’s still in denial. I’m sure it’ll have a happy ending, though.
Apericordis, 7″x5″ pen and ink and Copic markers on paper. You can get your own copy of this silly little card here on Etsy.
Tags: copic markers, etsy, Harry Potter, pen and ink, snape, valentine
Posted in Daily Art, People, Figures and Faces, Series and Books, Things I'm a Fan Of | 2 Comments »
Tentacle Deeps 24
Tuesday, January 24th, 2012
Tentacle Deeps 24 by Amy Crook, $222
It’s Tuesday the 24th, which is the perfect day for Tentacle Deeps 24, don’t you think? It’s a good thing I’ve got it all ready to go.
I have really been enjoying my block of 4″x8″ watercolor paper, especially for the tentacles, although it means I’ll need to figure out a framing and matting situation for them sooner or later. I like the sense of depth it gives them with the extra vertical space above, in this case where the yellows shine in and then filter down through the textured space into bluer greens at the bottom. The tentacles are scribbled in with fountain pen on the black and brush pen on the grey.
Tentacle Deeps 24, 4″x8″ pen and ink and watercolor on paper, $222 framed, with free shipping.
I have to admit, I think every single one of the Tentacle Deeps paintings looks cool photographed this way, so I will probably never stop adding in the gratuitous creepy detail shots.
Tentacle Deeps 24, detail, by Amy Crook
Tags: for sale, green, pen and ink, tentacle deeps, tentacles, watercolor
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Tentacle Heart Cyclops
Saturday, January 21st, 2012
Coloring Book Doodle 48 - Tentacle Heart Cyclops
I scanned #49 today, too, and it’s hard to believe I’ve done that many of these doodles. I don’t always manage to draw in books (wholesale orders don’t get them, or last-minute-zomg ones), and sometimes I draw and forget to scan, but still. Nearly 50! That’s a lot of tentacles.
And yet, this guy is unimpressed. Isn’t that always the way?
Tags: coloring book, doodle, pen and ink, sketch
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Like Sherlock Loves Crime Scenes
Wednesday, January 18th, 2012
Like Sherlock Loves Crime Scenes by Amy Crook
I couldn’t resist doing a Sherlock & John cartoon to match the Like Mycroft Loves His Umbrella art from November. Both of these guys are now available as Valentines in my Etsy shop, and I’ll be adding a series of prints soon as well. I have to admit, I really enjoyed wrapping these two up in crime scene tape, it just seemed a natural fit.
Like Sherlock Loves Crime Scenes, 5″x7″ pen and ink and Copic markers on paper.
Tags: copic markers, pen and ink, sherlock, slash, watson
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