February 2024 Sketch Cards
Posted on April 11th, 2024
New month, new sketch cards! I’m mostly busy writing the 4th Consulting Magic book this month, but the blog won’t go totally neglected again. There’s at least these, after all.
I want to say I’m feeling messier than usual but let’s be real, these are pretty average. But hey, they’re on time!
- Amber asked for Sportsball and I did this motley thing (sold)
- Kelly wanted a dragon and got a tiny one with a tiny hoard (sold)
- Jeff asked for ghost stories and got gossiping ghosts (sold)
- Eric asked for and got beets (sold)
- Amy B wanted cheese and got a bonus cheese-hoarding dragon (sold)
- SaraBeth wanted something silly and Trotsky volunteered to be blobbed (sold)
Categories: Angels, Cthulhu, and Other Myths, Sea Creatures and Other Animals, Whimsical and Strange, Zombies, Skulls, and Other Morbid Things
Tags: amber, amy b, brush and ink, cat, copic marker, dragon, eric, ghost, jefferson, kelly, patreon, pen and ink, sarabeth
April’s Floating Gallery is CLOSED!
Posted on April 9th, 2024
The Floating Gallery has pulled up stakes and drifted off into the sunset!
I hope you enjoyed April’s temporary exhibits, and will be back next time for more. This month’s pieces have been sold or retired to make room for all new art. Join the email list to get an early pass into all the future Floating Galleries.
In the meantime, my ko-fi shop is still open, and there will be sketch cards and other, stranger posts here on the blog. You can also support me on Patreon if you want to make sketch requests, see book previews, get downloads, or just feel good about yourself as a patron of the arts!
Categories: Floating Gallery
In Dreams
Posted on April 8th, 2024
In Dreams, 6″x4″ watercolor on paper, $200.
Kitty!
This sleeping feline is floating among the stars, at least in its dreams. The paper glows through a bright white where the cat is outlined, and the sky itself has swirls of black, blue, and violet all through it, showing through stars out into the infinite. Perfect for a nap!
In Dreams, detail, by Amy Crook
Categories: Sea Creatures and Other Animals, Series and Books
Tags: cat, for sale, space, watercolor
Crescent Moon
Posted on April 7th, 2024
Crescent Moon, 5″x7″ watercolor and pen & ink on paper, $250.
This little night scene is more my usual thing, though the cypress trees are evergreen and therefore look alive all year long. Their long shadows are subtle against the deep blue-and-purple sky, and there’s even a cat hiding among them to grace us with its presence.
Instead of corvids we have a little trio of batty bats flying past, which you can see in the detail photo.
Crescent Moon, detail, by Amy Crook
Categories: Flowers, Trees and Landscapes, Sea Creatures and Other Animals, Series and Books
Tags: bat, cat, for sale, horizons, pen and ink, tree, watercolor
Tea
Posted on April 6th, 2024
Tea, 6″x6″ watercolor and tea on paper, $250.
Do you love tea? Because I love tea so much I made a zine about it.
These illustrations made up the bulk of the zine’s pictures, rendered in soft watercolor on a tea-dyed background. There’s green tea and black, loose tea and bags, in a simple celebration of the drink.
Tea, detail, by Amy Crook
Categories: Card Design, Things I'm a Fan Of, Whimsical and Strange
Tags: for sale, tea, watercolor
Blue-Green 1
Posted on April 5th, 2024
Blue-Green 1, 4″x8″ watercolor on paper, $250.
I was having a lot of Rothko feelings when I painted this, and I love it.
The deep deep blue and mineral green are filled with texture and detail that belies their tiny size. The various shades that make up the blue are especially prone to catching the light and showing you something new every time you look.
Blue-Green 1, detail, by Amy Crook
Categories: Abstract and Just Plain Weird
Tags: for sale, primatek, watercolor
Still Death
Posted on April 4th, 2024
Still Death, 6″x4″ watercolor on paper, $200.
It’s like a still life, but eerie! Little creepy doll fingers poke their shiny green flesh up out of the rust-streaked soil, while the cracked head is helpless to do anything but watch. Bats fly in the on the sulphur winds and
The whole tiny painting is the size of a postcard, perfect to hide in a bookshelf or niche for extra spook points.
Still Death, detail, by Amy Crook
Categories: Angels, Cthulhu, and Other Myths, People, Figures and Faces, Sea Creatures and Other Animals, Zombies, Skulls, and Other Morbid Things
Tags: for sale, interference, primatek, watercolor
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