Doodle Bookmark 1
Posted on February 25th, 2013
Doodle Bookmark 1 by Amy Crook
It’s Bookmark Week again! I’m starting off with a little bit of oddment that built up over a few days of me doodling with a black superfine Sharpie. I let myself do stream of consciousness, so there’s vines and crosshatching and even a single Converse hightop, making a surreal little bit of art that lets your mind wander with your eyes. It’d be great to put in a writing journal, to give you something to jump start your brain when the blank page is too much.
Doodle Bookmark 1, , 5″x2″ Sharpie marker on paper.
Doodle Bookmark 1, detail, by Amy Crook
Above, you can see a close-up of the middle section of the doodles, where some tentacles seem to have snuck in amongst the curls and vines. Below, you can see it with a standard hardcover book.
Doodle Bookmark 1, with book, by Amy Crook
(book not included, I’m still reading it)
Categories: Abstract and Just Plain Weird, Daily Art, Series and Books
Tags: bookmark, buy a bookmark, doodle, for sale, sharpie marker
Sunday Round-Up & Crystal sketch
Posted on February 24th, 2013
art-type things wot I posted this past week
Monday we visited tiny Tolkein fandom with Storm, while Tuesday the tentacles got all steampunk with the golden Tentacle Idol. Wordless Wednesday revisited crows, and on Thursday I finally finished my alphabet with Z is for Zoomorphic. Then, Friday we saw the third Filigree Moon painting, and Saturday I expressed my feelings about pollen in cartoon form.
For Sunday’s sketch, I have another little doodle from someone’s Cthulhu Coloring Book, a mysterious crystal with eyes staring out from its facets. Sorry about the SAN loss.
Crystal sketch by Amy Crook
Tomorrow begins Bookmark Week! My newsletter list got a little preview so a couple of them are already sold, but there’s still a bunch left for you to covet.
Categories: Daily Art, Sunday Round-Up
Tags: coloring book, doodle, nfs, pen and ink, pencil, sketch
Down With Pollen!
Posted on February 23rd, 2013
Down With Pollen, self portrait with kitty by Amy Crook
This pretty much sums up my week, as inspired by one of the wonderful ladies in my Type B Mastermind Group. Perhaps next week the trees will give me a bit of a break to get better caught up with… everything. So much everything.
meh.
Categories: Daily Art, People, Figures and Faces
Tags: cartoon, copic marker, meh, pen and ink
Filigree Moon 3
Posted on February 22nd, 2013
Filigree Moon 3 by Amy Crook
This is sort of a Slytherin moon in silver and green, with a few green glittery spirals hiding in among the silver as well as a green halo around the whole moon. Although you can’t see them in the scan above, there’s little flecks of silver and green glitter in the black sky background like distant, tiny stars that catch the light at just the right angle.
Filigree Moon 3, 5″x5″ Japanese watercolor and glitter gel pen on Arches cover black paper.
Filigree Moon 3, detail, by Amy Crook
You can see not only the green glitter in with the silver, but a few little glimmering stars out in the black velvet space.
Filigree Moon 3, work in progress part 1, by Amy Crook
Above, you can see the moon before it got its decorative filigree. I love the subtle textures as the green and white paint mixed and moved around on the paper, making formations like real moon geography. Below, you can see the silver spirals about halfway done, the paper angled to catch the light and really make the glitter shine.
Filigree Moon 3, work in progress part 2, by Amy Crook
And finally we have the framed photo, showing how subtle the filigree can be from some angles. Despite the slightly odd angle of the torn paper, it fits perfectly into a standard 5″ square frame.
Filigree Moon 3, framed art by Amy Crook
Categories: Daily Art, Flowers, Trees and Landscapes, Series and Books
Tags: black paper, filigree, for sale, glitter gel pen, green, moon, silver, watercolor
Z is for Zoomorphic
Posted on February 21st, 2013
Z is for Zoomorphic, calligraphic illumination by Amy Crook
It was surprisingly easy to find a theme for my Z, and then once I’d decided on a zoomorphic letter, cats was the second most obvious choice (after zebras). Even the border fits the theme, with little abstract silver and gold mouse kissing all around these sleeping cats. Their poses are inspired by my own fickle felines, but I chose to go with different markings, a nice grey top kitty with a slumbering tabby for the base.
This is the end of my Alphabet! It’s almost sad that it’s over, except that I have at least two more letters to do, and I might go back and “fill in” the sold pieces with variants so I can display the whole set somewhere. I’m happy to take commissions on any letters someone wants in a different style, or that’s already sold (I’m already doing a second J!), and you can click here for the details.
Z is for Zoomorphic, 5″x5″ Japanese watercolor, pen & ink and glitter gel pen on paper.
Z is for Zoomorphic, detail, by Amy Crook
Above, you can see a bit of the kissing-mice border, with their simple curves of body, tail and ear. Below, you can see it tucked into a frame, though I forgot to sneak my iPhone into the shot.
Z is for Zoomorphic, framed art by Amy Crook
Categories: Daily Art, Illuminated Alphabet, Series and Books, Whimsical and Strange
Tags: alphabet, black, calligraphy, cats, for sale, glitter gel pen, gold, green, illumination, pen and ink, silver, watercolor
Crows, Singular and in Murders
Posted on February 20th, 2013
Today we’re revisiting paintings of crows, singular and plural, in murders and on wires. Click on any image to see its details.
Categories: Daily Art
Tags: crow, wordless weds
Tentacle Idol
Posted on February 19th, 2013
Tentacle Idol by Amy Crook
When I look at the final piece, I imagine some sort of dizzying bas relief in a hidden temple under the depths of the ocean or out of some horrific dreamland in one of HP Lovecraft’s tales. The sepia shadows and gold highlights give this art a steampunk air, but the way the art fades to a vortex of swirling madness is pure horror.
Tentacle Idol, 8″x8″ sumi-e ink, Sharpie marker, and watercolor on Fluid watercolor paper.
Tentacle Idol, detail, by Amy Crook
Above, you can see a close-up of some of the swirling tentacles, their gilt textured and worn, the spirals and suckers just uneven enough to be unsettling if you stare too long. Below, you can see a the art in a frame, up on one of my lovely wheat-gold walls.
Tentacle Idol, framed art by Amy Crook
And this time we have a bit of a bonus! This art started life as an experiment, layering sumi-e ink with Sharpie marker and gold paint and getting… mush. And so, I took photos from the point of mush to show how I nurtured it past the ass point and into a piece of art worth going on your wall.
Getting Past the Ass Point – with Tentacles!
a demonstrative gif by Amy Crook
Categories: Angels, Cthulhu, and Other Myths, Daily Art, Tentacles
Tags: for sale, gold, sharpie marker, sumi-e ink, tentacles, watercolor
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