Icon
Posted on June 24th, 2010
Icon, 1″x1″ etching on a 10″x4″ piece of watercolor paper
This is another tiny etching plate, which I inked using a method where the figure, who was etched deep enough to leave an impression in the paper, was inked in yellow, then the plate was wiped mostly clean and the rest of the surface was re-inked in red.
In classical art, yellow is the color of suffering, and of course in modern times we’re all about red for pain and blood. The diluted ink actually bled down the paper a little when it was run through the press, adding to the symbolism.
I actually did a whole series of crucifixion pieces during that time period, though this is definitely the smallest of the lot — the plate itself is only one inch square.
Icon, detail, by Amy Crook
Categories: Angels, Cthulhu, and Other Myths, Daily Art, People, Figures and Faces, Series and Books
Tags: crucifix, etching, for sale, intaglio, red, small plates, yellow
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Dichotomies
Posted on June 23rd, 2010
Dichotomies, 4″x6″ etchings on watercolor paper
This print uses two small etching plates together in composition. The large plate was a piece of the same found plate from yesterday’s art, and the small plate is one of my series of smaller plates for use in larger pieces, which you can see was inked in two different colors and printed over the darker plate. I’m more pleased with the final result on this one, I think, but I like the contrast between the two pieces.
You can see how the natural deckle edge from a larger sheet of watercolor paper forms the bottom, where the hand-torn edges give character to the other three sides. I was always a bit careless about the process of breaking down the bigger sheets, so this, like many of my prints, isn’t really a perfect rectangle.
Because of the way the composition was created out of several different hand-inked and hand-placed plates, it’s one of a kind.
Categories: Abstract and Just Plain Weird, Daily Art
Tags: etching, for sale, small plates
Untitled Print 1
Posted on June 22nd, 2010
Untitled Print 1, 4″x6″ etchings on watercolor paper
This print uses three small etching plates together in composition. The large plate was a bit of found art — a larger piece left behind by some other artists and cut up into intriguing shapes with no real connection to the original composition. The two smaller plates were part of a series of little, reusable etching plates I made by hand.
I have another print like this that I’ll post tomorrow, which uses a different portion of the found plate and another of the small plates in a similar manner.
Because of the way the composition was created out of several different hand-inked and hand-placed plates, it’s one of a kind.
Categories: Abstract and Just Plain Weird, Daily Art
Tags: etching, for sale, small plates
Ophiuchus
Posted on June 21st, 2010
Ophiuchus by Amy Crook
The second Starcycles Calendar I ever laid out was in 2001, and when Georgia asked for Ophiuchus on the cover, I decided to dive in with an oil painting. The image wrapped around the book, so the snake’s tail and field of stars were the back cover, while the figure was the main focus on the front.
Ophiuchus, 9″x12″ oil on canvas, sold.
Categories: Angels, Cthulhu, and Other Myths, Daily Art, People, Figures and Faces, Series and Books
Tags: constellation, greek myth, nfs, oil painting, snake, starcycles
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Country Mouse, City Mouse
Posted on June 20th, 2010
Country Mouse, City Mouse by Amy Crook
This is another tiny bedside-notebook doodle, this one inspired in part by the Aesop’s Fable, and in part by one of my not-so-secret addictions, the Facebook game MouseHunt. I imagine the country mouse is from somewhere far away from Gnawnia and its strange mice and determined hunters with their bizarre traps, while the city mouse would fit right in with the other denizens of the kingdom.
Categories: Daily Art, Things I'm a Fan Of, Whimsical and Strange
Tags: doodle, nfs, pencil
If Wishes Were Fishes
Posted on June 19th, 2010
If Wishes Were Fishes by Amy Crook
This doodle springs from a conflation of two sayings my Mom used to use, “If wishes were fishes, we’d live in the sea,” and “If wishes were horses, then beggars would ride.” Somehow my brain mixed the two up, and we have this doodle — “If wishes were fishes, then beggars would ride.” I went Seussian with the fish, giving the whole thing a cheerful, if surrealistic, feel.
Click the image to see it bigger!
Categories: Daily Art, People, Figures and Faces, Sea Creatures and Other Animals, Tentacles, Whimsical and Strange
Tags: doodle, nfs, pencil, squid
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