Green Salt Pools
Friday, June 3rd, 2011
Green Salt Pools by Amy Crook
This time I used small chips of salt inside tiny, tight spirals of bright green pen, and put a scant drop of water atop each one. I got small, dense pools of dried salt, almost all of which had a central crystal as well as the border of salt that always forms. This pen came out a pale, yellow-green when it was diluted into the salt, and just like the blue and gold earlier this week, the ink dissolved into the solution completely.
The green in the background is dark and bluish, but the rings around each little salt formation are a brighter green, from the dark shadowy forest to the rich green of leaves overhead to the bright new-leaf green of the salt growth.
Green Salt Pools, 7″x5″ salt, pen and ink and watercolor on watercolor paper, $299 framed, with free shipping.
This picture gives you a better feel for the color and texture of the piece:
Green Salt Pools, detail, by Amy Crook
And here you can see it tucked safe in its frame:
Green Salt Pools, framed, by Amy Crook
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4 Responses to “Green Salt Pools”
i love the texture on here, all your salt ones are a neato idea/experiment. first glance, they reminded me of lily pads 🙂
Thanks! They remind me of lily pads, too, but I’m trying to start seeing other things in them, too.
Beautiful Amy, love the addition of a new texture and anything green I love as well.
I’m liking the ones that are fairly monochrome a lot, with the single-color salt pools and a complementary color to go with them. I think that’s why I kept the gold one white.