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Sad News

Posted on October 3rd, 2017

No Gallery This October

My father passed away last Wednesday morning. I’m going to ground the Floating Gallery this month.

Hopefully, normal service will resume November 1.

If you still want your monthly dose of Amy Art, please check out my Patreon and Etsy.

Categories: Words Words Words


Pot Roast

Posted on September 26th, 2017

Pot Roast recipe, illustrated by Amy Crook

Pot Roast recipe, 5″x8.25″ pen & ink and watercolor in a watercolor Moleskine

Sekrit Patron and I are doing a very slow illustrated cookbook of our own recipes, and this is the first finished recipe! Look at those tasty veggies, omnomnom.

Categories: Completed Commissions, Series and Books
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This Beet Goes On

Posted on September 21st, 2017

This Beet Goes On illustration by Amy Crook

This Beet Goes On, 5″x8″ pen & ink and Copic marker in a Moleskine watercolor notebook

Do you enjoy my occasional illustrated recipes? Well, then, I have a project coming up that you’re going to love.

Sekrit Patron and I are doing a very slow illustrated cookbook of our own recipes, and this is the very first page.* Next week, a recipe for Pot Roast is coming down the pike, complete with watercolor noms and a bonus cat.

*it’s also a sequel to this art

Categories: Completed Commissions, Flowers, Trees and Landscapes, Whimsical and Strange
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Devil and Ghost

Posted on September 19th, 2017

Devil and Ghost, Inception parody art by Amy Crook

Devil and Ghost, 7″x5″ pen & ink and Copic marker on paper

Is this where I just admit I have sold a LOT of these chibi commissions lately? But they’re just so fun, I have no regrets.

color test ghostThese are for Halloween, of course! Arthur and Eames from Inception coming back again as the Devil and a ghost. Arthur is smarming it up in his red velvet suit, straightening his cuffs as he leans nonchalantly in wait. Eames is looking extra spiffy floating along in his vintage windowpane check.

And of course on the right I have the little sketch ghost I drew just to test Eames’ colors before the real thing. Boo!

These are drawn as close to a square aspect ratio as possible, so that they work as emoji on Slack. Their adorable 2-head-high chibi style conveys a lot of personality in a tiny space.

Arthur emoji by Amy Crook Eames emoji by Amy Crook

Categories: Angels, Cthulhu, and Other Myths, Card Design, Completed Commissions, People, Figures and Faces, Series and Books, Things I'm a Fan Of, Zombies, Skulls, and Other Morbid Things
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August Patreon Sketches

Posted on September 14th, 2017

Another month, another set of sketches for my darling Patreon patrons! If you’d like some goodies of your own, you can get a monthly sketch for as little as $5!

Luscious word art by Amy Crook

Luscious word art for Kim, 7″x5″ ink on paper

Doctor...Who? parody fan art by Amy Crook

Doctor…Who? for Roxanne, 3″x3″ pen & ink and Copic marker on cardstock

King in Yellow, meet King Crimson, Lovecraft parody fan art by Amy Crook

King in Yellow, meet King Crimson, for Jefferson, pen & ink and Copic marker on cardstock

Categories: Angels, Cthulhu, and Other Myths, Completed Commissions, People, Figures and Faces, Pretty Words, Series and Books, Tentacles, Things I'm a Fan Of
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Protected: Umbrella Flash Sale

Posted on September 12th, 2017

Airship illustration

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Six for Gold

Posted on September 8th, 2017

Six for Gold, small watercolor painting by Amy Crook

Six for Gold, 6″x6″ watercolor on Fluid watercolor paper

Six paintings in this series now, amazing! All of the previous ones are in their new homes, but there’s a print set that will bring them all to you. Or, of course, you can take this one home and start your own collection of crows.

The figure in this one is particularly eerie, and the tree is beautifully bent by a wind you can’t see but can only imagine. The crows are weathering the mist with equanimity, waiting to ride the breezes off to wherever they roost.

Six for Gold, detail, by Amy Crook

Six for Gold, detail, by Amy Crook

Above, you can see the eerie little figure waiting beneath the wind-twisted tree. Below, this painting lurks in its frame, a moody little scene just waiting for a wall.

Six for Gold, framed art by Amy Crook

Six for Gold, framed art by Amy Crook

Categories: Floating Gallery, Flowers, Trees and Landscapes, People, Figures and Faces, Sea Creatures and Other Animals, Series and Books, Zombies, Skulls, and Other Morbid Things
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