Fairytale Sky 8

Monday, January 13th, 2014

Fairytale Sky 8 by Amy Crook

Fairytale Sky 8 by Amy Crook

It’s the last day of the Floating Gallery, and I’m rounding up a week of art with another Fairytale Sky.

I used a different palette this time, a rich orange harvest moon that lights up the mist below in swirls of the same color. There’s a soft silvery green shimmer in and around those orange spirals, and a few little silver stars manage to peek out above the thick fog.

Everything about this painting is better in person, of course, from the shimmer of paint that changes color when the light hits to the soft texture of the black paper.

Fairytale Sky 8, 6″x4″ duochrome watercolor and Japanese watercolor on Arches cover black paper.

Fairytale Sky 8, detail, by Amy Crook

Fairytale Sky 8, detail, by Amy Crook

Above, you can see the mist lit up with golden sparkles by the last rays of a sunset. Below, you can see the painting in a frame, with the phone that took the picture above. It’s quite a small piece, and could go on a desk, cubicle wall, or tucked into an odd corner of architecture to bring a smile whenever you glance into that little hidden place.

Fairytale Sky 8, framed art by Amy Crook

Fairytale Sky 8, framed art by Amy Crook

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