Posts Tagged ‘nfs’
The Fading Year
Thursday, November 2nd, 2017
The Fading Year, 5″x7″ ink on paper
A dormant tree twisting up through the fog. A single leaf floating down on the swirling currents, the final breath of the old year. Winter is crisp in the air, breathing down your neck, hiding in the muffling mist.
The season of hot cocoa, warm sweaters, cloudy skies, and chilly nights is upon us, and I’m thrilled! I know other people love the spring and summer, but I’m definitely one for autumn and winter. This painting celebrates that quiet time where one season turns into the other, and the last of the color fades from the world for awhile.
The Fading Year, detail, by Amy Crook
Above, you can see a close-up of the swirling fog and the single red-brown leaf drifting down through it. Below, the painting is framed and sitting in my writing desk, waiting to inspire some introspective spookiness.
The Fading Year, framed art by Amy Crook
Categories: Floating Gallery, Flowers, Trees and Landscapes
Tags: brush and ink, j herbin, nfs, pen and ink, sold, tree
Pot Roast
Tuesday, September 26th, 2017
Pot Roast recipe, 5″x8.25″ pen & ink and watercolor in a watercolor Moleskine
Sekrit Patron and I are doing a very slow illustrated cookbook of our own recipes, and this is the first finished recipe! Look at those tasty veggies, omnomnom.
Categories: Completed Commissions, Series and Books
Tags: cookbook, nfs, patreon, pen and ink, recipe, sold, watercolor
This Beet Goes On
Thursday, September 21st, 2017
This Beet Goes On, 5″x8″ pen & ink and Copic marker in a Moleskine watercolor notebook
Do you enjoy my occasional illustrated recipes? Well, then, I have a project coming up that you’re going to love.
Sekrit Patron and I are doing a very slow illustrated cookbook of our own recipes, and this is the very first page.* Next week, a recipe for Pot Roast is coming down the pike, complete with watercolor noms and a bonus cat.
*it’s also a sequel to this art
Categories: Completed Commissions, Flowers, Trees and Landscapes, Whimsical and Strange
Tags: cookbook, copic marker, nfs, patreon, pen and ink, recipe
Devil and Ghost
Tuesday, September 19th, 2017
Devil and Ghost, 7″x5″ pen & ink and Copic marker on paper
Is this where I just admit I have sold a LOT of these chibi commissions lately? But they’re just so fun, I have no regrets.
These are for Halloween, of course! Arthur and Eames from Inception coming back again as the Devil and a ghost. Arthur is smarming it up in his red velvet suit, straightening his cuffs as he leans nonchalantly in wait. Eames is looking extra spiffy floating along in his vintage windowpane check.
And of course on the right I have the little sketch ghost I drew just to test Eames’ colors before the real thing. Boo!
These are drawn as close to a square aspect ratio as possible, so that they work as emoji on Slack. Their adorable 2-head-high chibi style conveys a lot of personality in a tiny space.
Categories: Angels, Cthulhu, and Other Myths, Card Design, Completed Commissions, People, Figures and Faces, Series and Books, Things I'm a Fan Of, Zombies, Skulls, and Other Morbid Things
Tags: arthur, chibi, commission, copic marker, devil, eames, etsy, ghost, halloween, inception, nfs, pen and ink, sold
August Patreon Sketches
Thursday, September 14th, 2017
Another month, another set of sketches for my darling Patreon patrons! If you’d like some goodies of your own, you can get a monthly sketch for as little as $5!
Luscious word art for Kim, 7″x5″ ink on paper
Doctor…Who? for Roxanne, 3″x3″ pen & ink and Copic marker on cardstock
King in Yellow, meet King Crimson, for Jefferson, pen & ink and Copic marker on cardstock
Categories: Angels, Cthulhu, and Other Myths, Completed Commissions, People, Figures and Faces, Pretty Words, Series and Books, Tentacles, Things I'm a Fan Of
Tags: brush and ink, doctor who, eleventh doctor, hp lovecraft, kim, king crimson, king in yellow, nfs, patreon, pen and ink, sketches, sold, tenth doctor, word art
Six for Gold
Friday, September 8th, 2017
Six for Gold, 6″x6″ watercolor on Fluid watercolor paper
Six paintings in this series now, amazing! All of the previous ones are in their new homes, but there’s a print set that will bring them all to you. Or, of course, you can take this one home and start your own collection of crows.
The figure in this one is particularly eerie, and the tree is beautifully bent by a wind you can’t see but can only imagine. The crows are weathering the mist with equanimity, waiting to ride the breezes off to wherever they roost.
Six for Gold, detail, by Amy Crook
Above, you can see the eerie little figure waiting beneath the wind-twisted tree. Below, this painting lurks in its frame, a moody little scene just waiting for a wall.
Six for Gold, framed art by Amy Crook
Categories: Floating Gallery, Flowers, Trees and Landscapes, People, Figures and Faces, Sea Creatures and Other Animals, Series and Books, Zombies, Skulls, and Other Morbid Things
Tags: bloodstone, counting crows, nfs, primatek, sold, tree, watercolor
Cataclysm
Thursday, September 7th, 2017
Cataclysm, 7″x5″ watercolor on paper
If you’re still having apocalypse feelings, here’s another vision of a terrible future for you!
The shimmering blue moon has a fissure at its heart, and another mysterious light shines through the clouds high above. The skies are charcoal and violet with whatever destruction came through, and the buildings are blackened ruins. Greenery crawls up the sides of some, while others still smoke or are ochre with rust.
Whatever city used to stand here, there’s not much left.
Cataclysm, detail, by Amy Crook
Above, you can see a close-up of the ruined gherkin building, and the iridescent paint on both it and the moon adding just a bit of light in the smoky darkness. Below, the painting sits in its frame looking innocuously non-prophetic.
Cataclysm, framed art by Amy Crook
Categories: Angels, Cthulhu, and Other Myths, Floating Gallery, Flowers, Trees and Landscapes, Series and Books, Zombies, Skulls, and Other Morbid Things
Tags: city, duochrome, horizions, interference, moon, nfs, purple, ruins, sold, watercolor
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