Posts Tagged ‘fish’
Inktober 2016, Week 3
Monday, October 24th, 2016
Three Inktober weeks down, one to go! It was another week full of Grand Days Out, so there’s a lot of easy stuff and a bit of more complex ink art. Some of these will be available as cards, some of them will be in a bookmark sale for my email list next month, and some of them are already spoken for.

Inktober day 17: autumn leaves for Kim

Inktober day 18: X-Men comic cover for Dami (and also a silly local cover contest)

Inktober day 19: Cat Butt Zen

Inktober day 20: Headache Fish

Inktober day 21: TARDIS with a cat flap for Eric

Inktober day 22: Rainy Day Forest for Molly

Inktober day 23: Sherlock holiday card design
Categories: Card Design, Completed Commissions, Flowers, Trees and Landscapes, People, Figures and Faces, Sea Creatures and Other Animals, Series and Books, Things I'm a Fan Of, Whimsical and Strange
Tags: bbc sherlock, brush and ink, cat, doctor who, fish, inktober, leaves, patreon, pen and ink, sherlock, sherlock bbc, sherlock holmes, tardis, tree, x-men
Blowfish
Monday, December 7th, 2015
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
Goldfish 2
Monday, October 12th, 2015
I posted this goldfish as a work in progress on Instagram, and through the magic of the internets I turned him into plot bunnies! He’s heading out tomorrow to his new home, and in return I have a whole rainbow of rabbits to keep me company during NaNoWriMo.
Goldfish 2, 7″x5″ watercolor and duochrome watercolor on paper.
Categories: Sea Creatures and Other Animals, Series and Books, Whimsical and Strange
Tags: duochrome, fish, goldfish, nfs, sold, watercolor
Two Fish
Saturday, June 7th, 2014
Two fish, different, but still swimming together in the vibrant purple depths. The bottom fish flashes between purple and blue, and the top fish has gold-to-green duochrome paint on one half, and gold-to-orange on the other.
To me, this painting is about support. The bottom fish is always there, just on the edge of awareness, ready to rise up when he’s needed.
Two Fish, 4″x8″ Japanese watercolor and duochrome watercolor on Fluid watercolor paper.

Two Fish, detail, by Amy Crook
You can really see the blue, gold, and orange catching the sunlight above, turning the purple water to a muted, matte background for the fishes’ brilliance. Below, the fish are swimming in a temporary frame, bright in the middle of darkness.

Two Fish, framed art by Amy Crook
Categories: Floating Gallery, Sea Creatures and Other Animals, Whimsical and Strange
Tags: duochrome, fish, for sale, japanese watercolor
Goldfish
Tuesday, May 28th, 2013

Goldfish, watercolor by Amy Crook
Last Thursday I finally got around to tearing some big sheets of paper I had into smaller, more Amy-sized sheets. Then I just had to play with the results, so I asked a friend to pick a color, and she said gold.
After a bit of playing and a bit of waiting, I ended up with this very bright red-orange-yellow background. Then I flipped it over, and found a fish in the shapes. I used a dark red and my lovely duochrome orange-gold paint to bring out the shape of this little guy, just a few strokes of paint to make a fishy.
Goldfish, 10″x8″ Japanese watercolor and duochrome watercolor on Arches cover white paper.

Goldfish, detail, by Amy Crook
Above, you can see the shine of the paint I used to put some of the gold in the goldfish. Below, the piece is sitting in a frame, and you can see how vibrant the colors really are.

Goldfish, framed art by Amy Crook
Categories: Daily Art, Sea Creatures and Other Animals, Series and Books
Tags: duochrome, fish, for sale, orange, portfolio, watercolor
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