Posts Tagged ‘brush and ink’
Blowfish
Monday, December 7th, 2015
Blowfish by Amy Crook
My love affair with colors my scanner hates continues! This lovely creature is painted in two shades of purple ink, with bonus black in the eyes and the same rich teal for irises as the water she’s swimming through.
This ink wash blowfish is just adorable. She only wants to be left alone! I’m sure she’ll calm down and make friends once she knows you’re not out to eat her for dinner.
Those spines would be hard on the gullet, anyway. Ow.
Blowfish, 8″x8″ brush & ink and ink wash on Fluid watercolor paper.
Blowfish, detail, by Amy Crook
Above, you can see her cute little ooh-face up close, her shining eyes begging you not to try to have her for lunch. Below, you can see her swimming in her own tank, er, frame, just waiting to be transferred to her new home.
Blowfish, framed art by Amy Crook
Categories: Floating Gallery, Sea Creatures and Other Animals, Whimsical and Strange
Tags: blue, brush and ink, fish, ink wash, j herbin, nfs, purple, sold
Cheshire Catnap
Saturday, December 5th, 2015
Cheshire Catnap by Amy Crook
Caturday is the perfect day to give yourself a catnap.
This fuzzy Cheshire Cat is just in it for the naps, much like every other cat I’ve ever met. His floof has floof, and one can only imagine the grin on him when he’s awake.
Where do you need a little bit of wonderland in your life? This kitty would be great in a bedroom or nursery, soothing someone to join him in sleep.
Purr.
Cheshire Catnap, 6″x6″ brush & ink and ink wash on Fluid watercolor paper.
Cheshire Catnap, detail, by Amy Crook
Above, you can see this mystical kitty’s sleeping face, soft and bright blues giving its markings some mystery. Below, he’s tucked in a temporary frame, waiting for his forever home.
Cheshire Catnap, framed art by Amy Crook
Categories: Floating Gallery, Sea Creatures and Other Animals
Tags: alice in wonderland, brush and ink, cat, chakras, for sale, ink wash, j herbin
Blood Moon 6
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2015
Blood Moon 6 by Amy Crook
This ink wash is a vivid addition to my City series, which is also the 6th of my Blood Moon paintings.
The blood moon glows with a rich red-gold radiance. The sky is home to a thousand glittering golden stars in halo around it. A dark city awaits below, reflecting the glow of them both.
Built in layers, this piece was first a wash of red and gold inks, and then a globe of light in the middle of gold-dusted night, and finally became a city. Each layer is a different kind of ink, even the gold dust.
Blood Moon 6, 8″x8″ brush & ink and ink wash on Fluid watercolor paper.
Blood Moon 6, detail, by Amy Crook
Above, you can see the shimmering gold dust in the Stormy Grey ink, and the solid Deleter Manga ink that blacks it out where the buildings rise up, with the beautiful red shining through both where appropriate. Below, you can see the piece in a frame, waiting to grace your walls with its eerie beauty.
Blood Moon 6, framed art by Amy Crook
Categories: Angels, Cthulhu, and Other Myths, Floating Gallery, Flowers, Trees and Landscapes, Series and Books, Whimsical and Strange
Tags: blood moon, brush and ink, city, ink wash, j herbin, moon, nfs, sold
Word Art, week 4+2
Monday, November 30th, 2015
November’s over, and I won at NaNoWriMo, hooray! I even managed a piece of word art every day through flu and freezing cold and fickle cats trying to sleep on my hands while I typed. So yay for finished projects!
I have had an inquiry about making a booklet of these — what do you think? Would you want a handmade book of weird words? It would be a lot of work to scan and format and print, but it might be fun to have the project preserved for posterity.
Word 22: Lingible – $25
Word 23: Cornobble – sold
Word 24: Ictic – $25
Word 25: Illaqueate – sold
Word 26: Grank – sold
Word 27: Quotidian – sold
Word 28: Malaxate – $10
Word 29: Kithoge – sold
Word 30: Sesquipedalian – $10
Categories: Pretty Words
Tags: brush and ink, calligraphy, pen and ink, sketch, word art, word art nov15
Word Art, week 3
Sunday, November 22nd, 2015
The days keep flying by, especially this week! I was sick and sleepy and pathetic, so I chose a lot of easy words. I’m feeling better now, though, and hope to get caught up on my NaNoWriMo words tonight (I’m about half a day behind now, a 100-word day really eats your lead).
Enjoy 7 new words – which one are you going to keep in your lexicon?
Word 15: Gorroch – $10
Word 16: Embrassade – sold
Word 17: Verticity – sold
Word 18: Semplice – $10
Word 19: Knorrish – $10
Word 20: Psithurism – sold
Word 21: Targant – $25
40404 words!
Categories: Pretty Words
Tags: brush and ink, calligraphy, pen and ink, sketch, word art, word art nov15
Word Art, week 2
Sunday, November 15th, 2015
How are we already halfway through November? NaNoWriMo is going pretty well despite the pollen, which seems determined to turn my brains to mush. I decided to confine these to the same paper and orientation, but otherwise allow myself to do whatever felt right for each day, whether that’s ink art or comic doodles or a UV-glowing ghost.
Which one’s your favorite new (or old) word?
Word 8: Jentacular – sold
Word 9: Tribulation – $10
Word 10: Sublevaminous – $25
Word 11: Jaculiferous – sold
Word 12: Arquated – sold
Word 13: Facinorous – $25
Word 14: Eldritch – $10
28182 words and counting!
Categories: Pretty Words
Tags: brush and ink, calligraphy, pen and ink, sketch, word art, word art nov15
Word Art, week 1
Sunday, November 8th, 2015
November is all about NaNoWriMo for me, with my goal this month to write 2000 words per day. I’m working on the third book in my Consulting Magic series, and at the same time I’ve set myself another challenge — drawing a word a day. I enjoyed Inktober so much I wanted to continue the daily art, so I thought the best way to warm up for writing was with more words! I’ll be rounding these up on Sundays, so enjoy them while they last.
Word 1: Deminition – sold
Word 2: Bibliophile – sold
Word 3: Susurrus – $25
Word 4: Squamous – $45
Word 5: Elaqueate – sold
Word 6: Pluviophile – sold
Word 7: Waldeinsamkeit – sold
14641 words down, many more to go!
Categories: Pretty Words
Tags: brush and ink, calligraphy, pen and ink, sketch, word art, word art nov15
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