Posts Tagged ‘j herbin ink’
Sardines
Thursday, October 11th, 2018
Sardines, 10″x8″ ink and watercolor on Arches cover buff paper
Monterey Bay Aquarium has a room where you can stand and watch sardines endlessly dance in circles around you, living flashes of silver in a meditative display.
The thick, buff-colored paper supports a brilliant turquoise ink wash with the perfect amount of watery softness to its shapes. Layers of abstract fish shine out of the blue in shade of silver that catch the light.
An infinite loop of motion and life!
Sardines, detail, by Amy Crook
Above you can see the abstract fishies up close, all light and shadow and overlapping motion. Below, the painting is in its tank, er, frame, on its way to its new home.
Sardines, framed art by Amy Crook
Categories: Completed Commissions, Floating Gallery, Sea Creatures and Other Animals
Tags: fish, ink wash, j herbin ink, metallic, nfs, sold, watercolor
Advent 2016, week 4
Saturday, December 31st, 2016
2016 is almost over!
To celebrate the end of this terrible year, I drew one sketch every day. They’re in various media on cheap-but-archival 5.5″x8.5″ embossed white cards. Some of these will be available as cards, some of them will be in a special sale for my email list next month, and some of them are already spoken for.
I had the flu and then a cold for most of December, so pardon some of the weirdness. I’m mostly well now, except for a bit of a lingering cough. Wish me luck in not catching anything else for awhile!
Advent 2016 day 26: Snortoro, a Pokemon and Totoro parody mashup, $20
Advent 2016 day 27: General Organa, Star Wars parody art, sold
Advent 2016 day 28: Pounce, $10
Advent 2016 day 29: Star Cat, $15
Advent 2016 day 30: Inception in a Teacup, parody art, $30
Advent 2016 day 31: Toast, Inception parody art, $30
Happy New Year!
Categories: Card Design, Completed Commissions, Daily Art, People, Figures and Faces, Sea Creatures and Other Animals, Series and Books, Things I'm a Fan Of, Whimsical and Strange
Tags: advent 2016, ariadne, arthur, brush and ink, cat, christmas, copic marker, eames, general leia, inception, j herbin ink, new year, parody, pen and ink, pokemon, star wars, yusuf
Bees 3
Friday, October 7th, 2016
Bees 3, 6″x6″ pencil, brush & ink, watercolor, and Primatek watercolor on Fluid watercolor paper
It’s been almost a year since the first bees buzzed over during Inktober.
This trio of bees are painted in a beautiful gold-infused grey ink, and paired with a paint made of real bronzite mineral that has its own subtle sparkle. The deep honey-gold evokes an unfiltered local honey, full of flavor and goodness.
Bees 3, detail, by Amy Crook
Above, you can see a detail of the uppermost bee, with the gold in the linework catching the sunlight along its body. Below, the bees are buzzing around their frame like they’re at home in a hive box.
Bees 3, framed art by Amy Crook
Categories: Floating Gallery, Sea Creatures and Other Animals, Series and Books, Whimsical and Strange
Tags: bees, brush and ink, for sale, j herbin ink, pen and ink, primatek, watercolor
September Patreon Sketches
Tuesday, September 20th, 2016
Pumpkin Spice Patreon, two bookmarks by Amy Crook
Two of my darling patrons this month asked me for Pumpkin Spice, so they both got some cheerful Autumnal sparkle. I also had a request for sleeping late at any cost, and on of the kitties kindly posed for this little ink sketch in lovely, sparkly Stormy Grey.
Want some sketches of your own? Support me on Patreon!
Sleeping Kitty by Amy Crook
Categories: Completed Commissions, Sea Creatures and Other Animals, Whimsical and Strange
Tags: brush and ink, cat, glitter gel pen, j herbin ink, patreon, pumpkin, sketch
Tsundoku
Tuesday, September 13th, 2016
Tsundoku: the condition of acquiring reading materials but letting them pile up in one’s home without reading them,
5″x7″ brush and J. Herbin 1670 ink on paper
A bit of fancy-ink word art for Kim’s Patreon sketch. I loaded up my lovely J. Herbin 1670 Stormy Grey ink into a water brush and noodled around making a big pile of books for her to not read.
Because obviously I would never do this.*
*by never I mean always, my To Be Read pile will outweigh me when I die
Categories: Completed Commissions, Pretty Words, Series and Books
Tags: brush and ink, brush lettering, j herbin ink, kim, patreon, word art
Bees 2
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2016
Bees 2, 7″x5″ pen & ink and ink wash on paper
More bees!
The rich amber ink is the same, but there’s smaller honeycomb and smaller bees. More and busier bees, buzzing about making honey or whatever it is that bees do when they’re not out getting pollen.
Bees 2, detail, by Amy Crook
Above, you can see the lovely texture of brush strokes, art paper, and ink wash all together in rich, honeyed detail. Below, the bees are in a frame, just as honeycomb should be!
Bees 2, framed art by Amy Crook
Categories: Floating Gallery, Sea Creatures and Other Animals, Series and Books, Whimsical and Strange
Tags: bees, for sale, ink wash, j herbin ink, pen and ink
Domed City
Wednesday, January 6th, 2016
Domed City, 4″x6″ iridescent watercolor and ink wash on Fluid watercolor paper
Another painting with some hidden sparkle, this one’s mostly done in ink washes. The background is an amazing rich teal that none of my electronics want to pick up, and the domes sparkle with golden highlights beneath the iridescent blue dragon.
This tiny piece would add a lovely bit of scifi-fantasy allure to a desk, bookshelf, or reading nook.
Here there be dragon!
Domed City, detail, by Amy Crook
Above, you can see the shining underbelly on the dragon that floats above the domed city. Below, a tiny window into this strange world as the painting is trapped behind glass in its frame.
Domed City, framed art by Amy Crook
Categories: Angels, Cthulhu, and Other Myths, Floating Gallery, Flowers, Trees and Landscapes, Sea Creatures and Other Animals
Tags: dragon, ink wash, iridescent, j herbin ink, nfs, sold, watercolor
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