Green Sea Turtle
Posted on June 1st, 2010
Green Sea Turtle by Amy Crook
A few months back I held a contest on the Not Dead Yet Studios blog to give away one Cartoon, and one custom tiny painting. The very patient CaZ from 2 Chicks at Home won the painting, and it’s finally done.
She asked for a green sea turtle (which I was surprised to find after some Googling wasn’t particularly green), and so I went looking for reference photos and got started. Rather than using one of the tiny 2.75″ square canvases, I decided to go with a slightly larger canvas board to give the little guy some room to swim.
As soon as he’s dry enough, he’ll get packed up and shipped off to his new home. He was fun to paint, and I’m thinking perhaps I need to do another contest soon — though maybe this time for an existing work.
Green Sea Turtle, 4″x5″ oil on canvas board, commission.
Read on to watch the turtle swim into being.
Categories: Completed Commissions, Daily Art, Sea Creatures and Other Animals
Tags: all rights reserved, commission, nfs, oil painting, sea turtle, tiny painting, underwater
Loligoth Bride
Posted on May 30th, 2010
Goth Bride by Amy Crook
The delightful Ang of Lowbrow Events commissioned this girl through my Be a Cartoon service over at Not Dead Yet Studios. She does alternative weddings, so she gave me free reign to doodle up any bride I wanted, as long as she was a little off the rails.
From her stripey stockings to her tiny top hat, this bride has a definite Gothic Lolita theme. I added a few spiders for extra morbidity, and then spun their web in the lining of her layered skirt. I considered doing the roses the same blood red as her hair and heart-shaped lipstick, but I decided to go with an eerie purple to match her pale violet eyes instead.
I’m happy to say Ang was thrilled, and you can find my bride lurking on the contact page of her site.
Loligoth Bride, 5″x7″ pen and ink and copic marker on watercolor paper, commission.
Categories: Completed Commissions, Daily Art, People, Figures and Faces, Whimsical and Strange, Zombies, Skulls, and Other Morbid Things
Tags: all rights reserved, bride, cartoon, commission, copic marker, Lowbrow Events, nfs, pen and ink
Pigeonholed
Posted on May 29th, 2010
Pigeonholed by Amy Crook
I painted this around the same time as some of my other abstract and semi-abstract pieces, and you can see some technical similarity with Precious and Untitled Experiment 1. The jewel-tone colors sneak through the black texture, and contrast with the frame around the sad, pigeonholed head. It’s hard to capture the subtle colors in a photograph, but the piece has a lot of depth in real life.
I actually sold this painting years ago to a friend who was moving at the time, and although it’s long paid for, he never did manage to pick it up and take it home, so I hold it in trust for him. Hey, Josh, come get your art!
Pigeonholed, 16″x20″ oil on canvas, sold.
Categories: Abstract and Just Plain Weird, Daily Art, Zombies, Skulls, and Other Morbid Things
Tags: nfs, skull, sold, zombie
Work In Progress: Bone Orchard
Posted on May 27th, 2010
Bone Orchard, work in progress by Amy Crook
Hard drive problems today, so you get one of my WIPs instead of a proper art post. This one has a great story that I’ll tell another day.
Categories: Daily Art, Flowers, Trees and Landscapes, Works In Progress
Tags: oil painting, sky, wip
Happy Frog Volant
Posted on May 26th, 2010
Happy Frog Volant, detail, by Amy Crook
This bright green Moleskine Volant notebook has been hand-decorated with Sharpie marker, this time with a happy little froggie just chilling on his lily pad. He’s got three flies buzzing above, perhaps ideas he’s going to take into himself when he gets the urge?
Moleskine’s colorful notebooks are ideal for customization, turning the high-quality book into a work of art in which to wrap your ideas. The acid-free ruled paper is a creamy ivory color, and a delight to write on. The large size Volants have 96 pages between their soft vinyl covers. The design is in permanent Sharpie, and should last as long as the notebook it’s drawn on.
Happy Frog, 5″x8.25″ customized Moleskine Volant notebook.
Happy Frog Volant by Amy Crook
Stick Figure Shivanaut Volant
Posted on May 25th, 2010
Shiva Nata Volant, detail, by Amy Crook
This rich red Moleskine Volant notebook has been hand-decorated with gold to show our Shivanaut going through all eight hand positions. The stick figure dancer’s mind is a swirl of new ideas and epiphanies!
Wondering what Shiva Nata, or Dance of Shiva, is? You can find out all about it at shivanata.com.
Moleskine’s colorful notebooks are ideal for customization, turning the high-quality book into a work of art in which to wrap your ideas. The acid-free ruled paper is a creamy ivory color, and a delight to write on. The large size Volants have 96 pages between their soft vinyl covers. The design is in oil-based gold Sharpie, and should last as long as the notebook it’s drawn on.
Stick Figure Shivanaut, 5″x8.25″ customized Moleskine Volant notebook, sold.
Stick Figure Shivanaut Volant by Amy Crook
Categories: Daily Art, Things I'm a Fan Of
Tags: moleskine, nfs, sold, volant
Ouroboros
Posted on May 24th, 2010
Ouroboros by Amy Crook
The touches of copper paint glow brightly in the photograph, as though the camera picked up the particles of shimmery metal in the paint.
Ouroboros was painted as another experiment, and is one of the abstracts I’m the most pleased with. The copper swirl of the snakes eating tails concludes with one escaping the endless spiral. The rough white shape on its periwinkle background calls to my mind a giant wing against a twilit sky, Quetzalcoatl overseeing his little cousins perhaps. The metallic paint highlights here and there throughout the painting in subtle and unsubtle ways to add dimension that goes well with the textured brush strokes.
Ouroboros, 16″x20″ oil on canvas.
Categories: Abstract and Just Plain Weird
Tags: copper, for sale, oil painting, ouroboros, snake
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