Posts Tagged ‘brush and ink’
Inktober week 4
Wednesday, October 28th, 2015
Week 4 – almost done! Just those last few days before Halloween, which I’ll probably round up next Wednesday.
Inktober is a month-long artist’s challenge in October to do one piece of art in ink every day. I’m posting them to Instagram as they get done, and my Patreon shortly after, and finally here on Wednesdays for you to enjoy.
Day 21 – Snape picking potions ingredients
Day 22 – Graveyard Watchdog v2
Day 23 – BEES
Day 24 – Midnight Monster
Day 25 – Distance 2
Day 26 – Emerald Bird
Day 27 – BOO!
Categories: Series and Books, Whimsical and Strange
Tags: brush and ink, brush pen, doodle, inktober, pen and ink, sketches
Inktober week 3
Wednesday, October 21st, 2015
Week 3 is here! Inktober is a month-long artist’s challenge in October to do one piece of art in ink every day. I’m posting them to Instagram as they get done, and my Patreon shortly after, and finally here on Wednesdays for you to enjoy.
Day 14 – Jack-o-Lantern v2
Day 15 – ink wash flowers
Day 16 – Horace’s Bronze Feather
Day 17 – quickie bat sketch
Day 18 – Lydia from the Beetlejuice cartoon
Day 19 – Kip from Monsterkind
Day 20 – a better Bat
Categories: Series and Books, Whimsical and Strange
Tags: brush and ink, brush pen, doodle, inktober, pen and ink, sketches
Inktober week 2
Wednesday, October 14th, 2015
Inktober is a month-long artist’s challenge in October to do one piece of art in ink every day. I’m posting them to Instagram as they get done, and my Patreon shortly after. I’ll round them up here weekly on Wednesdays, so enjoy week 2!
Day 7 – Miko from Prague Race
Day 8 – an experimental raven
Day 9 – Snuff the watchdog
Day 10 – leaf sketch
Day 11 – Snuff gets a Graveyard Dog friend
Day 12 – quick rose sketch
Day 13 – Inktopus
Categories: Series and Books, Whimsical and Strange
Tags: brush and ink, brush pen, doodle, inktober, pen and ink, sketches
Inktober week 1
Wednesday, October 7th, 2015
Inktober is a month-long artist’s challenge in October to do one piece of art in ink every day. I’m posting them to Instagram as they get done, and my Patreon shortly after, but I thought I’d round them up here for my Wednesday posts for posterity.
Day 1 – Alex Benedict and a Flower Fairy
Day 2 – Jack-o-Lantern
Day 3 – Bird and Spirals
Day 4 – Catnappery
Day 5 – Untrue Love cover sketch
Day 6 – Sidney Malik from Widdershins
Categories: Series and Books, Whimsical and Strange
Tags: brush and ink, brush pen, doodle, inktober, pen and ink, sketches
Halloween Trees 2
Friday, October 2nd, 2015
Halloween Trees 2 by Amy Crook
The original Halloween Trees is only a year old, but it feels very different from this sequel. The sky is softer and has more cloud shapes, and the trees are a less imposing brown rather than the starkly silhouetted black. Even the crows are different, coming in for a landing instead of taking off into the sunset.
The brilliant swath of pink behind the lightning-struck tree lets that whole bank of clouds really glow. The three trees each have their own character, slightly different patterns in their branches that make it clear even without leaves that they’re not the same species. If the crows are roosting in the middle one, one might wonder what lives in the lightning-struck tree on the left?
Halloween Trees 2, pen & ink, brush & ink, and watercolor on Fluid watercolor paper.
Halloween Trees 2, detail, by Amy Crook
Above, you can see the tiny birds up close, coming in to land in the lacework of branches. Below, the piece is in a temporary frame, just waiting for its new home.
Halloween Trees 2, framed art by Amy Crook
Categories: Floating Gallery, Flowers, Trees and Landscapes, Sea Creatures and Other Animals, Series and Books, Things I'm a Fan Of, Whimsical and Strange
Tags: brush and ink, crow, halloween trees, horizons, nfs, orange, pen and ink, pink, sold, tree, watercolor
Storm/City
Monday, June 8th, 2015
Storm/City by Amy Crook
A dark storm moves in the shadows of this loosely-painted city, sparkling with contained electricity.
J. Herbin’s lovely anniversary ink, Stormy Grey, gives some really gorgeous depth with its gold highlights and dark, layered greys.
I mostly stuck to more traditional city buildings this time around, brush and ink creating the suggestions of windows and towers against the pale page of the sky. I did include the Gherkin building from London, because it’s just really fun to paint. I put it in a lot of my cities!
Storm/City, 6″x4″ J. Herbin ink on Fluid watercolor paper.
Storm/City, detail, by Amy Crook
Above, you can see the gold catching the light against the dark grey of stormclouds in the shadows. Below, the piece is tucked into a tiny frame, a tempest in a teapot.
Storm/City, framed art by Amy Crook
Categories: Floating Gallery, Flowers, Trees and Landscapes, Series and Books
Tags: brush and ink, city, for sale, gold, j herbin ink, storm, zen
Vampire Bat
Saturday, June 6th, 2015
Vampire Bat by Amy Crook
Continuing in the same vein as Tuesday I have another minimalist brush painting, this time of a big-eared bat. With his swooping wings and giant ears, something about his face makes me think inevitably of Gary Oldman as aged Dracula. Clearly the costumer and I were working from similar inspiration.
I actually had to do this one twice, I dropped the brush onto the paper on the first go, which can be a happy accident in some things, but not this one. I’m actually happier with the second version anyway, so it all works out.
I just want to rub his fuzzy little belly!
Vampire Bat, 7″x5″ brush and ink on paper.
Vampire Bat, detail, by Amy Crook
Above, you can see all the details in his adorable little face, including the glinting reflection in his eyes. Below, he’s resting in a frame, just waiting to fly over to you.
Vampire Bat, framed art by Amy Crook
Categories: Floating Gallery, Whimsical and Strange, Zombies, Skulls, and Other Morbid Things
Tags: baaaaaaaats, bat, bronze, brush and ink, for sale
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