Mini-Showing at The Book Shop
Posted on January 31st, 2011
Window of Art by Amy Crook at The Book Shop
As a rule I rarely show my art, but over the next few years I’m hoping to change that, and I’m starting with this month-long window display at The Book Shop in Hayward, CA. If you live in the SF Bay Area, you can go visit my art in public at 1007 B Street all through the month of February.
You can even come meet me on Saturday, February 12 in the early afternoon! I’ll be loitering around the shop pretending I don’t want to take all the books home for a few hours.
Now that the window display is up, I can turn my attention to other things, like finishing up my snazzy new art shop here on the site, and making more, new art.
Window of Art by Amy Crook at The Book Shop
Window of Art by Amy Crook at The Book Shop
Window of Art by Amy Crook at The Book Shop
Hatbox 3
Posted on January 27th, 2011
The third and largest of my 3 repainted hatboxes, this one got the tentacle treatment. I’m quite pleased with the way they writhe upward when it’s a platform, but slither down from the black lid when the box is flipped and assembled. I’ll be using these in my window display to give some height to the art, since most of the pieces are quite small.
Categories: Daily Art
Weeble Wednesday: Cthulhu Hearts Tentacles
Posted on January 26th, 2011
Cthulhu + Heart by Amy Crook
Cthulhu has brought you a bouquet of cultists! He just wants to be loved, see how he’s baring his heart for you?
This is another of the new illustrations for my Monster Heart Coloring Book. I couldn’t resist putting a Cthulhu in, and of course he’s also available as a Valentine.
Cthulhu 3 and Cthulhu’s Heart, both 5″x7″ pen and ink and Copic markers on watercolor paper.
Categories: Angels, Cthulhu, and Other Myths, Daily Art, People, Figures and Faces, Series and Books, Tentacles, Things I'm a Fan Of, Whimsical and Strange
Tags: coloring book, copic marker, cthulhu, etsy, for sale, lovecraft, pen and ink, weeble
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Hatbox 2
Posted on January 25th, 2011
Still working hard on display bits for my window. After covering the horrifying cabbage roses with black, this one got a dose of white oil paint Sharpie. I had originally planned on skulls, but I decided on a more decorative theme, mainly because they’re being used upside-down in the window, but will be displayed right-side-up with their (now plain black) lids once I get them home.
Categories: Daily Art
Hatbox 1
Posted on January 24th, 2011
I’m going to have art in the window at The Book Shop in Hayward, CA starting Saturday, and going all through the month of February. I’ve been working on getting things ready for it, including cannibalizing some hatboxes I had sitting around. They’ve been repainted, and this one got a tedious bit of Sharpie marker shading to add some interest. There’s two more, one white and one black, which will be getting tentacles and skulls, respectively.
If you live in the Bay Area, stop by and see!
Categories: Daily Art
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Animal Instincts
Posted on January 22nd, 2011
Animal Instincts by Amy Crook
Photo etching is an interesting process where you start with a photograph, have film negatives made, and then use that to control exposure of a light-sensitive material to, well, light. Then it’s done like normal etching, except the parts where the light hit are more solid, so they don’t dissolve, and you’re left with the positive image eaten away, all ready to take ink.
My model at the time asked to have his back painted to try out his idea for a tiger stripes tattoo, so I got ink and a sumi-e brush and painted him up and took photos. I’ve had a chance to use those images for several things, including this piece.
Animal Instincts, 3″x3″ photo etching, $199 with free shipping.
This was printed in an edition of 26, of which I still have 4 + 1 with tea stains (oops).
These prints are on thick watercolor paper, but aren’t really suitable for display as is. I’m happy to frame it for you for a wee extra fee, though.
Categories: Nudes and Other Sexy Things, People, Figures and Faces
Tags: limited edition, photo etching, s
Commission: Winter Octopus
Posted on January 21st, 2011
Winter Octopus Commission for Gretchen by Amy Crook
Aside from my own, I did get to do one other winter card this year as a commission. Gretchen (proud owner of Nugget) saw my Squittens card design and asked me to draw her up a cheerful cephalopod all her own. We decided on cool wintry colors, and having him making snowflakes as a proper activity for a cute little octopus celebrating the season. The hat was a last-minute addition that gave him a bit of extra interest, and really pulled together the whole theme of the piece.
She’s gotten her cards sent and received by now, so I thought I’d give a last bit of holiday cheer by sharing the art with you.
Winter Octopus, 5″x7″ pen and ink and copic markers on watercolor paper, nfs.
Categories: Completed Commissions, Daily Art, Sea Creatures and Other Animals, Tentacles, Whimsical and Strange
Tags: all rights reserved, commission, copic marker, nfs, octopus, pen and ink, weeble
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