Posts Tagged ‘water’
Pond
Friday, November 4th, 2011
Pond by Amy Crook, $323
I decided that I wanted to go back to the original visual image that came to me with the salt pools and depict them in blue-green ink, with ripples going out, fading as they go from each pool. I imagine these like the frozen moment after the drop has hit, the ring of bigger crystasl around the edge like the splash, and each subsequent ring of paint a ripple growing fainter as it travels away from the center point. The whole piece has a very soothing, Zen-like quality to it that I quite enjoy.
Pond, 7″x5″ mixed media on paper, $323, framed, with free shipping.
The blue-green quality of this color is a bit hard to capture, the scanner wants to turn it blue and the camera wants to turn the white paper red, thus making the paint very green when the whites are corrected back.
Pond, detail, by Amy Crook
Of course, like all my three-dimensional salt paintings, it ships tucked safely into a simple frame.
Pond, framed, by Amy Crook, $323
Tags: aqua, for sale, pen and ink, salt, water, watercolor
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Year of the Water Dragon
Wednesday, August 31st, 2011
Year of the Water Dragon by Amy Crook, $299
2012 is the Year of the Water Dragon in Chinese astrology, and once again I’ve done an oil painting to celebrate.
When I was talking with Georgia Stathis about ideas for the 2012 Starcycles Calendar cover, we wanted to have the two dragons passing without overly referencing the yin yang sort of shape one often sees, so instead there’s a second dragon in the background, and our charming fellow grinning from behind the wall. I went with a very painterly style this time, not wanting to let myself get drawn into fussy details, and I think the simple shapes of coral, wall, sinuous dragon and deepening water work well together as a result.
Year of the Water Dragon, 12″x9″ oil on art panel, $299 with free shipping.
The sharp angle in the ruins represents a big planetary square starting in the year 2012, and as you can see below I added in the glyphs for the planets (Pluto and Uranus) with Photoshop, along with all the pertinent details to make the painting into a proper book cover.
2012 Starcycles Calendar cover by Amy Crook
Tags: all rights reserved, commission, coral, dragon, for sale, oil painting, ruins, starcycles, water
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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.
Tags: air, cave, earth, elements, fire, for sale, moon, oil painting, water
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