Vampire Watermelon
Posted on August 7th, 2010
Vampire Watermelon by Amy Crook
I asked Twitter what they wanted me to doodle this weekend, and one of the few replies I got was from @etherjammer, who suggested vampire pumpkins & watermelon. Somehow even though the pumpkins sounded adorable and fun, I ended up wanting to do a watermelon instead, turning the stripes into creeping veins and giving it a rather pointed smile.
Categories: Daily Art, Flowers, Trees and Landscapes, Zombies, Skulls, and Other Morbid Things
Tags: fruit, nfs, pencil, sketch, vampire
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Mystic Cave
Posted on August 6th, 2010
Mystic Cave by Amy Crook
This painting contains the four elements in harmony, the sky above and earth below, water stretching out from the rocky shore and the glow of a fire coming from the cave. I originally started it for the cover of a book, but we ended up going a different direction. Still, it’s one of my favorite small paintings, simple and peaceful with a small hint of a hidden secret.
The edges of the canvas aren’t finished, but the painting can be hung as is, or slipped into a frame.
Mystic Cave, 9″x12″ oil painting on canvas.
Categories: Daily Art, Flowers, Trees and Landscapes
Tags: air, cave, earth, elements, fire, for sale, moon, oil painting, water
Spelunking
Posted on August 5th, 2010
Spelunking, joined view, by Amy Crook
Continuing the series of little bronze people, these two are taking a fairly standard position but using an alternate entry point. If I recall correctly, this is the figure that had a problem with the orifice in question closing up during casting. The shop tech was highly amused to watch me clamp her in a vice and drill her open with the big metal drill press. As a result the fit between them isn’t quite as close as some of the others, but it still works for them.
Spelunking, approx. 4″w x 10″l x 7″h when joined.
Spelunking, separated view, by Amy Crook
I’ve often considered continuing the series exploring other sexual paradigms, but the foundry I was using at the time has since closed. Perhaps one of these days my muse will demand I find a new way to create them. For now, there’s still one more couple and at least one more single figure to be posted before the series is done, and possibly more of the singles if I can dig up some good photos of the ones that were sold.
Categories: Nudes and Other Sexy Things, People, Figures and Faces, Series and Books
Tags: bronze, for sale, sex people
Weeble Wednesday: Isidore
Posted on August 4th, 2010
Weeble Isidore by Amy Crook
Yet another of my buddies, Isidore is wearing her Hufflepuff colors in her weeble. I went for an argyle sweater and saddle shoes to spiff up her simple jeans, and of course had to add in a book on one of her favorite subjects, the British royal family.
If you’re enjoying these weebles, remember that you, too, can be a cartoon for just $79.
Categories: Daily Art, People, Figures and Faces, Series and Books
Tags: cartoon, closet, copic marker, nfs, pen and ink, weeble
Patterns and Symbols
Posted on August 3rd, 2010
Patterns and Symbols by Amy Crook
These three tiny etching plates were hand inked and arranged to go through the printing press together, creating a one-of-a-kind print. Each etching plate is only an inch or an inch and a half square, the images floating in the center of the white page.
The top plate was painstakingly inked so that each aquatinted curl of “smoke” got its own colour, and then the two subsequent plates — both etchings with added aquatint — were inked with the same colors to complement the first. Together the three separate decorative motifs give a different meaning and presentation than any one piece would singly.
Patterns and Symbols, 8″x12″ etching on watercolor paper, $299 with free shipping.
Patterns and Symbols, detail, by Amy Crook
Categories: Abstract and Just Plain Weird, Daily Art
Tags: etching, for sale
Snape
Posted on August 1st, 2010
Snape by Amy Crook
To go with yesterday’s botched Potions lesson, here’s a very stylized drawing of Professor Snape to go with it. The lightning bolt is from a very silly little Harry Potter stamp kit, and the rest is pen and ink.
Categories: Daily Art, People, Figures and Faces, Things I'm a Fan Of, Whimsical and Strange
Tags: cartoon, Harry Potter, nfs, pen and ink
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