Sketches and Sales and Sherlocks, Oh My!
Posted on May 18th, 2011
Sale done, thank you to all who participated!
I’m doing a sale! Until the end of May, if you’d like to get just a wee little sketch from me in the mail, you can.
This is the sort of thing you can get for $5:
One figure, sketchy style!
Fluffed-Up Wren sketch by Amy Crook
John Watson sketch by Amy Crook
This is the sort of thing you can get for $10:
One figure, with more detail & shading:
Snape sketch by Amy Crook (sold)
Or two figures, sketchy style. No, they don’t have to be cutesy. What?
John and Sherlock sketch by Amy Crook (sold)
This is the sort of thing you can get for $20:
Two figures, with more detail & shading:
Aziraphale and Crowley sketch by Amy Crook (sold)
Thanks!
Categories: Angels, Cthulhu, and Other Myths, Completed Commissions, Daily Art, People, Figures and Faces, Sale Post, Things I'm a Fan Of
Tags: good omens, pen and ink, sherlock, sketch sale, snape, watson, wings, wren
Tentacle Deeps 12
Posted on May 17th, 2011
Tentacle Deeps 12 by Amy Crook
I think I may be just about done with the tentacle series, so in a few weeks I’ll have to think of something else to do with my Tuesdays.
This one got two layers of washes, one darker than the other, so I decided to keep the tentacles themselves to a single, matte black layer, contained entirely within the darker wash, at least at the bottom. One of them does break out of the top, as tentacles are wont to do. The rich colors of this were lost somewhat in the scanning process (I do seem to say that a lot, don’t I?), but this handmade (not by me, though) postcard looks great in a simple black frame.
Tentacle Deeps 12, 4″x6″ watercolor on handmade postcard.
Tentacle Deeps 12, framed, by Amy Crook
Categories: Angels, Cthulhu, and Other Myths, Daily Art, Series and Books, Tentacles
Tags: for sale, tentacle deeps, turquoise, watercolor
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Stork Family
Posted on May 16th, 2011
Stork Family by Amy Crook
When Maribeth Doerr decided to get her website done with Wendy Cholbi’s Bonanza Package, she got not only her cartoon, but a custom header. We talked a little about what images would work for StorkNet Family, and decided to go away from the classic “stork with a bundle” clip art and do something classier. I went looking for photos of baby storks, and found a great one of a mama stork standing protectively over her two babies. I translated that into a nest and just mama’s legs, with three babies for visual balance. From the sketch I did two versions, and this watercolor was the one we both ended up preferring.
Her header, miniaturized below, continues the watercolor feel with a wash of blue across the top of the page. For the site itself we stuck to complementary colors sampled from the header, a nice baby-blanket peach and blue framing the clean white pages.
Categories: Completed Commissions, Daily Art
Tags: all rights reserved, commission, nfs, watercolor
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Whiteboard Tentacles
Posted on May 14th, 2011
Whiteboard Tentacles by Amy Crook
Bonus tentacles for Saturday!
I got tired of my whiteboard and wanted a clean slate, so I took some proper Windex and washed away all the to-do lists and inspired ideas and good intentions and gave myself a clean slate.
Then came the tentacles.
Categories: Angels, Cthulhu, and Other Myths, Daily Art, Tentacles
Tags: nfs, tentacles, whiteboard
Poddleston
Posted on May 13th, 2011
Poddleston by Amy Crook
It’s Friday the 13th, so I thought I’d celebrate with a cartoon of my very own black cat. This doesn’t really look like him per se, but it shares some important features — big ears, wacky tail, and smirky face. His real name is Pod (short for Pteropodidae, the family name for fruit bats), but Poddleston is one of the many nicknames he goes by. I scribbled this up with Sharpie marker, while the real Pod was off somewhere making trouble.
Or napping. Champion nappers, my cats. They could totally nap for nationals.
Categories: Daily Art, Whimsical and Strange
Tags: cat, nfs, pod, sharpie
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Innocent Stars
Posted on May 12th, 2011
Innocent Stars by Amy Crook
This piece started out as an experiment to see how the three different pens — blue, green and purple — would fare when wetted with the salt-and-water technique I used for Water Lilies 1. As you can see, the blue hardly bled into the salt at all, the purple let out some pink but stayed largely unblurred, and the green dissolved almost completely. I let it sit for a while on my bookshelf while I pondered what to do next, and eventually I decided that the swirling bright spots reminded me a bit of bright stars.
I mixed up a dark purple-blue-black and layered it into the background in messy, childlike strokes. Then I scattered some smaller salt granules over the wet paint and let it form another, softer set of stars as it dried.
Innocent Stars, 7″x5″ salt, watercolor and pen and ink on watercolor paper, $222 framed with free shipping.
The piece is framed and hanging out in my living room at the moment, just waiting to find a new home.
Innocent Stars, framed, by Amy Crook
Below you can see a couple of close-up details of the salt-and-ink “stars.” My camera was having trouble with the colors, though, so the first one is much more accurate than the second.
Innocent Stars, detail, by Amy Crook
Innocent Stars, detail, by Amy Crook
Categories: Abstract and Just Plain Weird, Daily Art, Whimsical and Strange
Tags: for sale, framed, night, pen and ink, purple, salt, sky, stars, watercolor
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Weeble Wednesday: Maribeth Doerr
Posted on May 11th, 2011
Maribeth Doerr cartoon by Amy Crook
I actually finished Maribeth’s cartoon months ago, and just haven’t gotten around to posting it, oops.
She got her cartoon as part of with her WordPress Bonanza Package with me & Wendy Cholbi — I’ll be posting her header art next week. I had a lot of fun drawing her weeble self, the warm grin and giant pink bag, along with her very appropriate “Delightfully Silly” t-shirt. I always enjoy drawing ponytails, too, I think it’s the same urge that makes me draw dozens of spirally swishy tentacles.
Categories: Completed Commissions, Daily Art, People, Figures and Faces
Tags: all rights reserved, cartoon, copic marker, nfs, pen and ink, weeble
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