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Yule Gifts
Friday, November 21st, 2014
Yule Gifts, a Hobbit parody comic by Amy Crook
Thorin has a beautifully-wrought golden lantern in the shape of an apple for his Burglar for Yule. Bilbo has made a very hobbity wreath of fresh evergreens for the King Under the Mountain.
They both have the cutest blushes from knowing that the other person thought of them for the winter holidays.
You can send this adorable holiday card and spread the yuletide cheer, just pick one up at my Etsy shop!
Yule Gifts, 7″x5″ pen & ink and Copic marker on paper.
Yule Gifts hobbity holiday card by Amy Crook at Etsy
Categories: Card Design, Floating Gallery, People, Figures and Faces, Series and Books, Things I'm a Fan Of
Tags: bilbo baggins, cheese, copic marker, etsy, hobbit, holiday, holiday card, nfs, pen and ink, sold, thorin
Snowflakes
Monday, November 17th, 2014
Snowflakes, a Sherlock parody comic by Amy Crook
John and Sherlock agreed to a festive winter evening making snowflakes. Unfortunately, they have very different ideas about how to go about that particular activity.
Whose do you think will win out?*
Snowflakes, 7″x5″ pen & ink and Copic marker on paper. Get the cheerful holiday card on Etsy!
Snowflakes Sherlock holiday card by Amy Crook on Etsy
*I think they’ll do both, first Sherlock’s and then John’s.
Categories: Card Design, Floating Gallery, People, Figures and Faces, Series and Books, Things I'm a Fan Of
Tags: christmas, copic marker, etsy, holiday, holiday card, john watson, nfs, pen and ink, sherlock, sherlock bbc, sherlock holmes, sold, watson
Don’t Blink
Thursday, November 13th, 2014
Don’t Blink, Doctor Who parody art by Amy Crook
Don’t look away. Don’t turn your head. Don’t even blink.
You’ll be a lot more years down if you let this one catch you blinking.
Don’t Blink, 5″x7″ pen & ink and Copic marker on paper. Get Weeping Angel birthday cards for all your frenemies!
Don’t Blink, Weeping Angel parody birthday card by Amy Crook on Etsy
Categories: Angels, Cthulhu, and Other Myths, Card Design, Floating Gallery, People, Figures and Faces, Series and Books, Things I'm a Fan Of
Tags: copic marker, doctor who, etsy, for sale, pen and ink, weeping angel
How Many Minions
Saturday, November 8th, 2014
How Many Minions, parody comic by Amy Crook
How many Minions does it take? Who knows, these six haven’t even managed it yet, though the one on top is shining like a proper Christmas star, having lifted his whole tree of support off the ground below.
You can get these silly Minions on a card at my Etsy shop.
How Many Minions, 5″x7″ pen & ink and Copic marker on paper.
How Many Minions holiday card by Amy Crook at Etsy
Categories: Card Design, Floating Gallery, People, Figures and Faces, Series and Books, Things I'm a Fan Of
Tags: copic marker, despicable me, etsy, for sale, holiday, minions, pen and ink
Murder at Sunset
Friday, November 7th, 2014
Murder at Sunset by Amy Crook
A single tree hosts a murder of crows as the sun sinks below the horizon, painting the clouds in glorious golds, oranges, and reds. This latest installment in my Horizons series has a charming simplicity with the single, crooked tree, but a lovely complexity of layered clouds hiding behind it.
Murder at Sunset, 8″x4″ pen & ink and watercolor on Fluid watercolor paper.
Murder at Sunset, detail, by Amy Crook
Above, you can see the seven crows coming to roost for their murder, whether in collusion or merely coincidence. Below, I’ve put the painting in a temporary frame, though I think this one would benefit from a mat cut to size for its final resting place.
Murder at Sunset, framed art by Amy Crook
Categories: Floating Gallery, Flowers, Trees and Landscapes, Sea Creatures and Other Animals, Series and Books
Tags: crows, horizons, murder of crows, nfs, pen and ink, sold, sunset, tree, watercolor
Dark Scottish Loch
Thursday, November 6th, 2014
Dark Scottish Loch by Amy Crook
Many miles away
Something crawls from the slime
At the bottom of a dark Scottish loch
There is a very subtle shimmer of amethysts in the water at the center of this painting, another in my series of maps to nowhere. The rich mineral-based paints give very understated, muted colors, with only that tiny bit of shimmer to add lightness. I outlined the ‘loch’ with Sharpie marker, and named it after the above lyrics from The Police’s Synchronicity II.
There’s even a hint of monsters in the gorgeous texture of the lake, a suggestion of something lurking in the forest surrounding it as well. A shadow on the door of your mind.
Dark Scottish Loch, 10″x8″ Sharpie marker and Primatek watercolorn on archival paper.
Dark Scottish Loch, detail, by Amy Crook
Above, you can see the amethyst paint shimmers ever so subtly in the dark waters of the loch. Below, you can see the painting in a frame, suggesting at secrets to be found at the bottom of things.
Dark Scottish Loch, framed art by Amy Crook
Categories: Abstract and Just Plain Weird, Floating Gallery, Series and Books
Tags: for sale, map, primatek, watercolor
Dreamlands
Monday, November 3rd, 2014
Dreamlands by Amy Crook
Pink jellyfish float serenely over a translucent city in shadowy greens, everything looking half-real against the sky of blue with hints of periwinkle and lavender. Deadly tendrils caress the tops of the buildings, or perhaps pass right through them, and the buildings tilt along with the horizon, like something in a dream.
I’m sure it surprises nobody that the Dreamlands are a Lovecraftian sort of thing, the alien worlds one travels to in the perilous hours of dreaming.
Dreamlands, 6″x6″ watercolor on Fluid watercolor paper.
Dreamlands, detail, by Amy Crook
Above, you can see the way the jellyfish float past the city, unaffected by its strange towers and spires. Below, you can see the painting in a temporary frame, like a window into a dream.
Dreamlands, framed art by Amy Crook
Categories: Angels, Cthulhu, and Other Myths, Floating Gallery, Sea Creatures and Other Animals, Series and Books, Tentacles, Things I'm a Fan Of
Tags: city, dreamlands, for sale, japanese watercolor, primatek, watercolor
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