Posts Tagged ‘monoprint’
7 Chakras
Tuesday, July 20th, 2010
7 Chakras by Amy Crook
This is a much larger piece than the monoprints I’ve been posting up until now, and my terrible photography is unfortunately one of the reasons I’ve been putting off posting them. The page comes out much more buff-colored than the reality, which is the soft cream of heavy watercolor paper.
This is the third of my monoprints featuring chakras, and by far the largest. When I printed it the colors ran, so that the top image came out clear, and the lower chakras were blurred into each other and their colored backgrounds. You can see them more clearly in the detail images below, and you can always click on any image to see the larger version.
7 Chakras, 11″x30″ monoprint on watercolor paper, $399 with free shipping.
This one-of-a-kind print is on a single sheet of thick, archival watercolor paper, and will need to be framed or matted to be suitable for display. I’m happy to help you out with that for a small additional fee.
Want a payment plan? You can do 4 automatic monthly payments of $100 if you’d like — I’ll ship your art as soon as I get the last payment.
7 Chakras, detail 1, by Amy Crook
The plates on this page are all 3″ wide, while the page itself is 11″, and the whole piece is 30″ long (2.5 feet!). I’ll probably ship it rolled, unless you choose to have it framed.
7 Chakras, detail 2, by Amy Crook
Categories: Angels, Cthulhu, and Other Myths, Daily Art, Series and Books
Tags: chakras, for sale, monoprint
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Second and Seventh
Monday, July 19th, 2010
Second and Seventh, detail, by Amy Crook
This monoprint is another one in a series I did featuring the chakras, in this case showing a man reaching up for the Seventh chakra, enlightenment, while being held down by his very active Second chakra. He strives to rise above while his base physical being keeps him down to earth, so his goal seems to him to be out of reach, as if on another plane entirely. On the other hand, his connection to the ground is also very fuzzy, his feet lost in the fog as he puts all his energy toward his goal and none of it toward his real life.
There’s something compelling to me about the pull between physical and spiritual for many of us, and the disconnect that forms as a result.
Second and Seventh, 8″x11″ monoprint on watercolor paper.
Second and Seventh by Amy Crook
Categories: Angels, Cthulhu, and Other Myths, Daily Art, Nudes and Other Sexy Things, People, Figures and Faces
Tags: chakras, for sale, monoprint
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Fog
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
Fog, 3″x3″ print on 8″x11″ watercolor paper
This piece was made deliberately vague, just a hint of a figure hiding in the violet fog. The monoprinting process helped to further add blur and squishiness to the image, so that it’s only our human nature to see a face wherever there’s the right arrangement of shapes that brings out the figure at all.
This print is on a sheet of paper that is unframed, and will need to be matted and/or framed to be suitable for hanging. I’m always happy to frame things for you for the cost of materials, and shipping’s always free.
Fog by Amy Crook
Categories: Abstract and Just Plain Weird, Daily Art, People, Figures and Faces
Tags: for sale, monoprint
Blood From a Stone
Tuesday, July 6th, 2010
Blood From a Stone, 4″x6″ monoprint on 8″x10″ watercolor paper
The origin of this monoprint’s title is a bit odd — it’s not really named because of the magenta “veins” in the blue marble, but because the 3 pure inks used here (blue, yellow and magenta) are the colors you need to mix to get a really good, realistic blood red. I suppose it says a lot about me that I spent a lot of time figuring out how to mix the perfect shade of blood, but everyone needs a hobby, right?
Painted to resemble natural stone with inclusions of magenta veins and a few small flecks of yellow “gold,” this piece has always had a rather soothing quality to me despite the morbid name.
Categories: Abstract and Just Plain Weird, Daily Art, Zombies, Skulls, and Other Morbid Things
Tags: for sale, marble, monoprint
Reflect
Friday, June 18th, 2010
Reflect, 3″x3″ monoprint on 9″x9″ watercolor paper
This monoprint has always made me think of giant, ancient trees growing right at the edge of a pond, reflected such that it’s hard to tell where the trees end and the water begins. You might see something totally different, of course, since this is a very abstract image. I did a couple of prints with this color scheme, I’ll try to post the other one tomorrow or next week. Actually, I used to dye my hair both of those colors at one point, though these days I don’t like to bleach it out in order to go blue or green, so mostly I stick to red or purple.
A monoprint is created by using thick, fingerpaint-like water-based inks to paint onto a blank acrylic printing plate, and then running the result through a press with wet paper just like an etching. It creates a single one-of-a-kind print that’s a merger of painting and randomness, the image flipped and often changed by the pressure and the way the ink interacts with the water-soaked paper. I would often print half a dozen in the course of a session and only keep the ones I really liked.
Reflect by Amy Crook
Categories: Abstract and Just Plain Weird, Daily Art, Flowers, Trees and Landscapes
Tags: for sale, green, monoprint, purple
Whorls and Turns
Friday, June 11th, 2010
Whorls and Turns by Amy Crook, $499
For once, I thought I’d post something brightly colored for Friday. This is a great example of the way monoprint inks feel a lot like high-quality finger paints, and the playfulness that it gave to the process. Also an example of me not wearing gloves in the printing studio like I should have, but I won’t tell if you don’t.
When I really got into monoprinting, one of the things I did was make a number of small etching plates that I could use interchangeably along with the monoprints and special papers to create one-of-a-kind pieces of art. Here you can see three of those small plates, which were printed onto the page in a single run.
Whorls and Turns, detail, by Amy Crook
These small plates were about 1-1.5″ each, and could be inked a number of different ways to get different effects. You can see these three were all initially inked with a deep blue, and then the bottom one was wiped almost clean of blue and inked again with the red to give it the effect of blue veins in red rock. Once those plates had been run, the rest was done on a blank monoprinting plate, which would be printed right over the images that were already there. It’s interesting bit of approximation, since the image prints backwards onto the page.
This one-of-a-kind print is on thick watercolor paper suitable for framing, but not ready to hang by itself. I’m happy to matte or frame pieces before shipping for the cost of the materials.
Whorls and Turns, 12.5″x11″ etching and monoprint on watercolor paper, $499 with free shipping.
Categories: Abstract and Just Plain Weird, Daily Art
Tags: blue, etching, for sale, intaglio, monoprint, yellow
Sins of the Heart
Friday, May 21st, 2010
Sins of the Heart, detail, by Amy Crook
The third in the series of 3 related monoprints, this one moved entirely away from the flower metaphor and in a different direction. The shape is not quite a heart, not quite a pink triangle, and not quite a political statement. The watery blue background intrudes on all sides, blurring the edges and the metaphor alike.
This image is floating in the middle of a larger sheet of paper, slightly off-center and off-kilter like everything about this print.
Sins of the Heart by Amy Crook
Sins of the Heart, 3″x3″ monoprint on 7″x11.5″ watercolor paper.
The other two monoprints in the series are here and here.
Categories: Abstract and Just Plain Weird, Daily Art
Tags: for sale, lotus prints, monoprint, pink
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