Archive for the ‘Flowers, Trees and Landscapes’ Category
June 2024 Patron Sketches
Tuesday, July 30th, 2024
There was a bat in our basement! It appears to have left on its own, but man, what a random ending to the week. Before all that, I spent the day on sketch cards! Everything is watercolor this time around because reasons.
From the top left:
- Kelly asked for a rainbow kitty
- Amy B prompted “our big, loud pride in [their] shameful times”
- SaraBeth prompted “quiet pride”
- Eric asked for Gonzo
- Jeff asked for Fozzie Ramone
- Amber prompted “sidekick wanted!”
- Andria wanted a subtle bi owl
- Corinne referred to Goomy day by asking for “slime and rainbows”
- and Nick asked for a Mandragora from Final Fantasy
There’s actually a 10th card, but it’s a spoiler for the cover of A Flutter of Fae, which is now with my beta readers, with its plot all fixed and some fresh typos for their pleasure of discovery.
Categories: Completed Commissions, Flowers, Trees and Landscapes, People, Figures and Faces, Pretty Words, Sea Creatures and Other Animals, Series and Books, Things I'm a Fan Of, Whimsical and Strange
Tags: am, amy b, andria, cat, corinne, eric, final fantasy, jeff, kelly, muppets, nick, owl, patreon, pen and ink, pokemon, pride, sarabeth, watercolor
May 2024 Sketch Cards
Monday, July 1st, 2024
Another month, another set of sketches for my darling patrons!
Nine this time, though 3 of them were done for whimsy rather than requests.
- Jefferson asked for a BAGELPOCALYPSE (sold)
- Nick wanted something from Dead Boy Detectives (great show!)
- Kelly asked for Bagpuss which I had never heard of! (sold)
- I did another little galaxy for no real reason (sold)
- Nope kitty is Posca marker practice
- This weird sun/moon thing is badly inspired by Shayla Maddox’s wonderful work
- Amy B wanted a squid (sold)
- SaraBeth said, “Pollen is evil but flowers are beautiful.” (sold)
- Rebecca S asked for a sea monster
Categories: Abstract and Just Plain Weird, Angels, Cthulhu, and Other Myths, Completed Commissions, Flowers, Trees and Landscapes, People, Figures and Faces, Sea Creatures and Other Animals, Series and Books, Tentacles, Things I'm a Fan Of, Whimsical and Strange, Zombies, Skulls, and Other Morbid Things
Tags: amy b, black paper, cat, copic marker, jefferson, kelly, nick, patreon, pen and ink, rebecca s, sarabeth, squid, watercolor, yupo
Crescent Moon
Sunday, April 7th, 2024
Crescent Moon, 5″x7″ watercolor and pen & ink on paper, $250.
This little night scene is more my usual thing, though the cypress trees are evergreen and therefore look alive all year long. Their long shadows are subtle against the deep blue-and-purple sky, and there’s even a cat hiding among them to grace us with its presence.
Instead of corvids we have a little trio of batty bats flying past, which you can see in the detail photo.
Crescent Moon, detail, by Amy Crook
Categories: Flowers, Trees and Landscapes, Sea Creatures and Other Animals, Series and Books
Tags: bat, cat, for sale, horizons, pen and ink, tree, watercolor
Crack of Dawn
Wednesday, April 3rd, 2024
Crack of Dawn, 6″x12″ watercolor on paper, $350.
Yeah, the title is a joke, but I also really love the egg-like glow around our shining light here. Is it the moon? Is it the sun? Who knows! That’s up to you, what you want to see floating up in that deep blue-violet sky among the stars.
This unusually sized painting will be perfect to fill that odd spot on your wall that needs a splash of color.
Crack of Dawn, detail, by Amy Crook
Categories: Flowers, Trees and Landscapes, Series and Books, Whimsical and Strange
Tags: for sale, iridescent watercolor, moon, sun, watercolor
Consuming Sunlight
Monday, April 1st, 2024
Consuming Sunlight, 12″x12″ acrylic ink on paper, $450.
An unusually large painting for me, this one is also set in the daytime instead of the middle of the night. Weird!
This corvid is trying to wrap his beak around something far too large and abstract for it, as the sun shines through the tree branches, turning them red-gold. In the detail, you can see real sunlight shining off the bird, and the tangle of winter-bare sticks in the middle of the tree.
Consuming Sunlight, detail, by Amy Crook
Categories: Flowers, Trees and Landscapes, Sea Creatures and Other Animals
Tags: acrylic ink, crow, for sale, horizons, tree
January 2024 Patreon Sketches
Monday, March 25th, 2024
And now we are caught up! Though of course we’ll have February’s Patreon sketches done in a few days, and then it’ll truly all be done and dusted, and in April you’ll get some actual full art pieces.
Only a 2-day delay due to illness, whew!
From the top left:
- Rey asked for “have some fucking grace” (sold)
- Jefferson asked for some office crows (sold)
- Purple Space Kitty is just because reasons
- Amy B wanted some kind of monkey and I painted this little babe (sold)
- Eric asked for the 15th Doctor and gets chibi ball-playing 15 (sold)
- SaraBeth asked for “sometimes hope is just spite rebranded” (sold)
- Nick wanted Mona from Nanalan’
Categories: Angels, Cthulhu, and Other Myths, Flowers, Trees and Landscapes, People, Figures and Faces, Pretty Words, Sea Creatures and Other Animals, Things I'm a Fan Of, Whimsical and Strange
Tags: amy b, cat, copic marker, crow, doctor who, eric, jefferson, nick, patreon, pen and ink, rey, sarabeth, sketch, watercolor
December 2023 Patreon Sketches
Thursday, March 21st, 2024
And two sets of bonus cards, some trees and some more space, because I needed more extras for patron goodie packets.
I didn’t like the layout of horizontal to vertical cards in the photo so I solved it by drawing 3 bonus cards. I dunno, man, it made sense at the time.
From top left:
- Eric asked for bubble tea with plum jellies and got a cheerful boba cup. (sold)
- Carrots! bonus carrots.
- Rey asked for Decemberween! and well, yeah. This was inevitable. (sold)
- Kelly asked for “bridge to the stars or bridge of dreams” and got something a little more eldritch than possibly expected. But it’s sparkly! (sold)
- Bonus potato! Or half of one, anyway. Look, I made curry this week, veg are on my mind.
- Amy B wanted a hedgehog and I have delivered. (sold)
- Jefferson wanted hot soup, and gets brains. He knows why. (sold)
- Rebecca S asked for a castle and gets this vaguely ominous fortress.
- Rhonda prompted “bee/hive” and so I did two different bee cards, because reasons. There is a whole fat fuzzy bee on the black card, but phone photos can only do so much.
And below, the bonus Space and Tree cards!
Categories: Flowers, Trees and Landscapes, Sea Creatures and Other Animals, Things I'm a Fan Of, Whimsical and Strange, Zombies, Skulls, and Other Morbid Things
Tags: amy b, bee, black paper, copic marker, eric, jefferson, kelly, pen and ink, rebecca s, rey, rhonda, watercolor
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