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Absinthe Snape
Sunday, July 11th, 2010
Absinthe Snape by Amy Crook
A while back I did some silly doodles as gifts for online friends, and this one ended quite polished. I think it was the absinthe glass, which just wanted a level of fine detail to go with its fine contents, plus the style was just fun to draw. There’s just something about drawing Snape that’s engaging for me, with his unrelenting black clothes and scowling face and big nose.
I’ve never actually tried absinthe myself — I have a friend that’s a big fan of it since it got re-legalized (something about lead pipes driving people crazy rather than wormwood), but he never manages to pony up and give me some to try. Perhaps this year I’ll make it to his absinthe bar at Dickens Faire in SF.
Categories: Daily Art, People, Figures and Faces, Things I'm a Fan Of
Tags: Harry Potter, nfs, sketch
Tattered Koi
Saturday, July 10th, 2010
Tattered Koi sketch by Amy Crook
Just a little sketch for the weekend, this fish looks like he’s seen better days. His eyes came out a bit evil, so he’s rather like a zombie koi, lurking in your pond, craving your delicious brains.
Categories: Daily Art, Sea Creatures and Other Animals, Zombies, Skulls, and Other Morbid Things
Tags: fish, nfs, pencil, sketch, zombie
Fallen
Friday, July 9th, 2010
Fallen, approx. 11″x4″x1.25″ bronze sculpture
I have a whole series of little nude people in singles and pairs, several of which I’ve already sold over the years. Unfortunately this is one instance where my terrible photography skills come into play, since it’s hard for me to capture the nuances of texture and color in these pieces. They were all created in a soft, malleable wax and then cast in bronze using a method that destroys the original, so they’re one of a kind. The color comes from a chemical patina that has slowly developed with age. All of the figures in this series are in the same scale, though many of them have a rather more adult theme — I’m starting tame.
This particular figure always reminded me of a fallen angel, and though I had several ideas for adding wings over the years, I ended up liking him as is. He’s designed to lay on his face on a flat surface, but you can see the front of the figure is fully detailed, below, except for the actual faces, which I left eerily blank. I keep him displayed on a black surface under my glass coffee table, a subtle surprise for anyone who notices it. Not that I have a lot of people over, heh.
Fallen, bottom view, by Amy Crook
Categories: Angels, Cthulhu, and Other Myths, Daily Art, Nudes and Other Sexy Things, People, Figures and Faces, Series and Books
Tags: angel, bronze, for sale, sculpture, sex people
Green Angel
Thursday, July 8th, 2010
Green Angel, 10″x8″ oil painting on canvas, 11.5″x9.5″ framed
This is yet another painting done off a model, from a photo this time of him lounging in bed. I wanted to imagine an angel with butterfly wings, not a tiny fairy but a full man-sized creature, fallen to earth to partake of the pleasures only to be found here. His wings are tattered from his fall but, I hope, still functional, still able to carry him up above if not all the way back from whence he came.
This small oil painting is on stretched canvas and framed in an antiqued silver wooden frame. I have it hanging by the light in my bedroom where I see it as I enter and exit, flicking the switch off and on.
Categories: Angels, Cthulhu, and Other Myths, Daily Art, Nudes and Other Sexy Things, People, Figures and Faces, Whimsical and Strange
Tags: angel, butterfly, for sale, framed, oil painting, s
Weeble Wednesday: Princess Priscila
Wednesday, July 7th, 2010
Princess Priscila by Amy Crook
Belated and busy here, so have a Weeble for Wednesday — this is my friend Priscila, who asked for a fairy princess costume, complete with tiara and magic wand. We based it off Belle from Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, but went pink for a bit of personal flair. You can just barely see the properly princessy glass slippers under the hem, too!
Categories: Daily Art, People, Figures and Faces, Series and Books, Whimsical and Strange
Tags: cartoon, closet, copic marker, nfs, pen and ink, weeble
WIP: Molten Sun
Monday, July 5th, 2010
Molten Sun, work in progress detail, by Amy Crook
After finishing Molten Sky, I hung it up in my apartment to dry, and slowly got an idea for ways to make the single idea into a series. This is the second one, also 24″ square. For a long time it looked like it had a bite out of it and made me crave Oreos, but now I’ve finally got the metallic copper, bronze and gold filled in the “bite.” I’m not quite sure how I’m going to finish it off, but for now it’s drying in the same spot the other one occupied, where I can look up and see it and contemplate.
Categories: Abstract and Just Plain Weird, Daily Art, Series and Books, Things I'm a Fan Of, Works In Progress
Tags: amber, oil painting, work in progress
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