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Weeble Wednesday: Dagon
Wednesday, October 6th, 2010
Weeble Dagon by Amy Crook
Today I’ve got another of HP Lovecraft’s creations, made into a creepy-adorable weeble. Dagon has his very own eponymous short story, but he also is alluded to in “Shadows Over Innsmouth,” the short story from which I illustrated a fishy Deep One earlier in the year.
Lovecraft had a real horror of all things fishy and oceanic, and it shows in the tentacled, scaley (and often quite overblown) descriptions he gave in his stories. I’ve tried to mix the macabre with the cute in my depictions, and I’ve had a lot of fun choosing which creature to cartoon next.
I’ll be adding him to my series of Lovecraftian Greeting Cards on Etsy as well, which are perfect for this spooky season.
Weeble Dagon, 5″x7″ pen, ink and copic marker on watercolor paper.
Categories: Angels, Cthulhu, and Other Myths, Daily Art, 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: coloring book, copic marker, etsy, for sale, lovecraft, pen and ink, weeble
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Bruce Fandango
Saturday, September 18th, 2010
Bruce Fandango by Amy Crook
This is one of my very first underwater paintings, painted as a wedding gift for some friends. He hangs in all his fierce glory in their living room to this day, though he never did get a frame.
We named him Bruce Fandango after the shark in Finding Nemo, and the silly Fandango commercials where they say, “Look out, rawr!” I mean, doesn’t that sort of seem like what he’s saying?
Rawr!
Bruce Fandango, 36″x24″ oil on canvas, not for sale.
Categories: Daily Art, Sea Creatures and Other Animals
Tags: nfs, oil painting, shark
Bobtail Squid
Thursday, September 16th, 2010
Bobtail Squid by Amy Crook
I think bobtail squid are just the cutest of the squid family, so I decided to paint one up for another tiny painting. He’s actually a deep-sea creature, so he should rightly be floating in a serene black depth, but I wanted to give him a little lighter of a background, so I made it a dark blue with a bit of sunshine coming in. Maybe it’s really the lights of an oncoming research vessel, who knows?
Bobtail Squid, 4″x6″ oil paint on canvas board with a 5″ wooden easel.
Categories: Daily Art, Sea Creatures and Other Animals, Tentacles, Things I'm a Fan Of
Tags: for sale, oil painting, squid, studio gallery, tiny painting
Sea Turtle
Monday, September 13th, 2010
Sea Turtle by Amy Crook
After I painted a sea turtle for my contest winner, I decided I wanted to do another one just for the heck of it. This little painting depicts a green sea turtle swimming in shallow ocean waters, frolicking through the sunbeams streaming in from above. He’s a perfect size to fit in a little niche on a bookshelf, desk, or side table.
Sea Turtle, 2.75″ x 2.75″ oil on canvas, nfs (sold). This painting comes with a little 5″ wooden easel for display.
Sea Turtle, step 1, by Amy Crook
First, I laid down the background, fading from the sunlit top of the water to a clear blue near the bottom, including the edges of the tiny canvas. Then I added in the turtle himself, or at least his shape, which had to dry before I could put in his details and create the charming fellow you see above.
Sea Turtle, step 2, by Amy Crook
You can see how the finished product looks on a shelf with some other tiny paintings (and a little friend) here:
4 tiny underwater scenes by Amy Crook
Categories: Daily Art, Sea Creatures and Other Animals
Tags: nfs, oil painting, sold, tiny painting, turtle
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Squid sketch
Saturday, September 11th, 2010
Squid sketch by Amy Crook
I found this hiding among my old scans today, I believe he was a little sketch I did on a greeting card for a friend. There’s just something fun about drawing the curl and sway of tentacles!
Categories: Daily Art, Sea Creatures and Other Animals, Tentacles
Tags: doodle, nfs, pencil, sketch, squid
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Translucent Pelagic Octopus
Thursday, August 12th, 2010
Translucent Pelagic Octopus tiny painting by Amy Crook
Today’s tiny painting is a Translucent Pelagic Octopus, a deep-sea creature that floats ghostlike in the dark ocean. They have some phosphorescence in blues and reds and even a bit of gold to go with the white, and seem to be sculptures of living glass. Iridescent paint gives the image a big of shimmer, adding to the effect.
He’s giving you a cheerful hello wave from his tiny canvas, which is about the size of a postcard. He comes with a small wooden easel to easily display him on a flat surface such as a bookshelf, mantelpiece, desk, cubicle, or very patient cat.
Pelagic Octopus, 4″x5″ oil painting on canvas board.
Categories: Daily Art, Sea Creatures and Other Animals, Tentacles
Tags: canvas board, for sale, ocean, octopus, oil painting, tiny painting
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