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Tea

Posted on April 6th, 2024

Tea by Amy Crook

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

Tea, detail, by Amy Crook

Categories: Card Design, Things I'm a Fan Of, Whimsical and Strange
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Blue-Green 1

Posted on April 5th, 2024

Blue-Green 1 by Amy Crook

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

Blue-Green 1, detail, by Amy Crook

Categories: Abstract and Just Plain Weird
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Still Death

Posted on April 4th, 2024

Still Death by Amy Crook

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

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
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Crack of Dawn

Posted on April 3rd, 2024

Crack of Dawn by Amy Crook

Crack of Dawn, 6″x12″ watercolor on paper, $350.

Yeah, the title is a joke, but I also really love the egg-like glow around our shining light here. Is it the moon? Is it the sun? Who knows! That’s up to you, what you want to see floating up in that deep blue-violet sky among the stars.

This unusually sized painting will be perfect to fill that odd spot on your wall that needs a splash of color.

Crack of Dawn, detail, by Amy Crook

Crack of Dawn, detail, by Amy Crook

Categories: Flowers, Trees and Landscapes, Series and Books, Whimsical and Strange
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Sowing

Posted on April 2nd, 2024

Sowing by Amy Crook

Sowing, 7″x5″ watercolor on paper, $250.

This abstract has echoes of my old, old planetary paintings, but it’s also got the same mood as my Growth series, just from the other side — all those sent-away seeds are finding a place on the blood-red planet just waiting to be sown.

The painting is on a thick, deliciously textured handmade paper to add amazing detail, and the seed-stars shine with a subtle green.

Sowing, detail, by Amy Crook

Sowing, detail, by Amy Crook

Categories: Abstract and Just Plain Weird
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Consuming Sunlight

Posted on April 1st, 2024

Consuming Sunlight by Amy Crook

Consuming Sunlight, 12″x12″ acrylic ink on paper, $450.

An unusually large painting for me, this one is also set in the daytime instead of the middle of the night. Weird!

This corvid is trying to wrap his beak around something far too large and abstract for it, as the sun shines through the tree branches, turning them red-gold. In the detail, you can see real sunlight shining off the bird, and the tangle of winter-bare sticks in the middle of the tree.

Consuming Sunlight, detail, by Amy Crook

Consuming Sunlight, detail, by Amy Crook

Categories: Flowers, Trees and Landscapes, Sea Creatures and Other Animals
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January 2024 Patreon Sketches

Posted on March 25th, 2024

And now we are caught up! Though of course we’ll have February’s Patreon sketches done in a few days, and then it’ll truly all be done and dusted, and in April you’ll get some actual full art pieces.

Only a 2-day delay due to illness, whew!

From the top left:

  • Rey asked for “have some fucking grace” (sold)
  • Jefferson asked for some office crows (sold)
  • Purple Space Kitty is just because reasons
  • Amy B wanted some kind of monkey and I painted this little babe (sold)
  • Eric asked for the 15th Doctor and gets chibi ball-playing 15 (sold)
  • SaraBeth asked for “sometimes hope is just spite rebranded” (sold)
  • Nick wanted Mona from Nanalan’

Categories: Angels, Cthulhu, and Other Myths, Flowers, Trees and Landscapes, People, Figures and Faces, Pretty Words, Sea Creatures and Other Animals, Things I'm a Fan Of, Whimsical and Strange
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