Posts Tagged ‘skeleton’
Inktober 2017, day 24-31
Tuesday, October 31st, 2017
Happy Halloween!
I can’t believe it’s already NaNoWriMo time. Here’s the final eclectic mix of commissions, Patron sketches, and spoopiness — next month I’ll be locked in a closet writing solarpunk, haha.
![Inktober day 24: Dancing Disco Inktober day 24: Dancing Disco](https://amysnotdeadyet.com/stuff/inktober17-24.jpg)
Inktober day 24: Dancing Disco
![Inktober day 17: Inspiration Island Inktober day 17: Inspiration Island](https://amysnotdeadyet.com/stuff/inktober17-25.jpg)
Inktober day 25: Inspiration Island
![Inktober day 26: Otter Blep Inktober day 26: Otter Blep](https://amysnotdeadyet.com/stuff/inktober17-26.jpg)
Inktober day 26: Otter Blep
![Inktober day 27: Poison Apple Inktober day 27: Poison Apple](https://amysnotdeadyet.com/stuff/inktober17-27.jpg)
Inktober day 27: Poison Apple
![Inktober day 28: Spoopy Crow Inktober day 28: Spoopy Crow](https://amysnotdeadyet.com/stuff/inktober17-28.jpg)
Inktober day 28: Spoopy Crow
![Inktober day 29: Zero Inktober day 29: Zero](https://amysnotdeadyet.com/stuff/inktober17-29.jpg)
Inktober day 29: Zero
![Inktober day 30: The Good Candy Inktober day 30: The Good Candy](https://amysnotdeadyet.com/stuff/inktober17-30.jpg)
Inktober day 30: The Good Candy
![Inktober day 31: Knucklebones Inktober day 31: Knucklebones](https://amysnotdeadyet.com/stuff/inktober17-31.jpg)
Inktober day 31: Knucklebones
Categories: Completed Commissions, Daily Art, Flowers, Trees and Landscapes, People, Figures and Faces, Pretty Words, Sea Creatures and Other Animals, Things I'm a Fan Of, Whimsical and Strange, Zombies, Skulls, and Other Morbid Things
Tags: brush and ink, chibi, commission, crow, disco, glitter gel pen, halloween, inktober, j herbin, nbx, nightmare before christmas, otter, pen and ink, skeleton
Backbone
Wednesday, February 5th, 2014
![Backbone, abstract watercolor by Amy Crook Backbone, abstract watercolor by Amy Crook](https://amysnotdeadyet.com/stuff/backbone-m.jpg)
Backbone, abstract watercolor by Amy Crook
Back in November, the same painting session that gave me the beginnings of both Exit Strategy and The Colour Out of Space produced the background for this. I did some more with the background before letting it sit for two months, and finally a few weeks ago I figured out what I wanted to do with it.
I actually used thinned-out titanium white paint in a fountain pen to draw these little shapes rather than painting them, a technique I practiced first on a couple of this month’s bookmarks.
The sinuous lines of vertebrae don’t quite follow the soft shapes they wind through, but they are informed by them. It’s hard to tell if this is one very long creature or several; if they’re suspended in water or mist or even fossilized; if they’re from something natural, unnatural, or even supernatural.
Backbone, 6″x4″ watercolor and Japanese watercolor on Arches cover white paper.
![Backbone, detail, by Amy Crook Backbone, detail, by Amy Crook](https://amysnotdeadyet.com/stuff/backbone-d.jpg)
Backbone, detail, by Amy Crook
Above, you can see an extremely close look at a dozen of the many vertebrae twining through the painting. Below, the painting is tucked in a frame, its mysteries safely contained.
![Backbone, framed art by Amy Crook Backbone, framed art by Amy Crook](https://amysnotdeadyet.com/stuff/backbone-f.jpg)
Backbone, framed art by Amy Crook
Categories: Abstract and Just Plain Weird, Floating Gallery, Zombies, Skulls, and Other Morbid Things
Tags: bones, for sale, japanese watercolor, pen and paint, skeleton, watercolor
Fish Skeleton
Tuesday, March 19th, 2013
![Fish Skeleton watercolor by Amy Crook](https://amysnotdeadyet.com/stuff/fish-skeleton-m.jpg)
Fish Skeleton watercolor by Amy Crook
This is another of those pieces that started with an experiment with water and paint, and the result made me think of a stream in a rainstorm with drops hitting the surface and a soft play of light down in the water below. I wanted to do something more interesting that just a random fish, though, so of course I went for a fish skeleton. I took a few liberties with fish anatomy, so this isn’t really a specific fish so much as the Death of Fish, as it were.
It’s a definite contrast to the whimsy of my previous Fish Skellington, swimming along all silent and deadly, or at least dead.
Fish Skeleton, 6″x4″ watercolor on paper, $199 with free shipping.
![Fish Skeleton, detail, by Amy Crook](https://amysnotdeadyet.com/stuff/fish-skeleton-d.jpg)
Fish Skeleton, detail, by Amy Crook
Above, you can see the fine details of rib and fin and skull wending their way through the random-seeming raindrops. Below, the skeleton has swum into a frame so you can enjoy the wee size of it, perfect for a desk at work or an unused bit of wall at home.
![Fish Skeleton, framed art by Amy Crook](https://amysnotdeadyet.com/stuff/fish-skeleton-f.jpg)
Fish Skeleton, framed art by Amy Crook
Categories: Daily Art, Sea Creatures and Other Animals, Zombies, Skulls, and Other Morbid Things
Tags: blue, for sale, skeleton, watercolor
Skeleton Bookmark
Friday, November 30th, 2012
![Skeleton Bookmark by Amy Crook Skeleton Bookmark by Amy Crook](https://amysnotdeadyet.com/stuff/skeleton-bookmark.jpg)
Skeleton Bookmark
by Amy Crook
Thank goodness it’s Friday! Normally this sketchy little dude would go on Sunday, but this time I had two bookmarks sell before writing the posts, so I thought I’d save those for the weekend. That’s right, this is the last of the bookmarks for the week you can actually buy! Or you can click here to see all the available bookmarks in one easy spot.
Skeleton Bookmark, 1″x4.5″ pencil on paper.
![Skeleton Bookmark, detail, by Amy Crook Skeleton Bookmark, detail, by Amy Crook](https://amysnotdeadyet.com/stuff/skeleton-bookmark-d.jpg)
Skeleton Bookmark, detail, by Amy Crook
Above you can see his grinning face up close and personal. Below, he’s hanging out on a book to show you just how slender a skeleton can be, when he’s a bookmark, anyway.
![Skeleton Bookmark, with book, by Amy Crook Skeleton Bookmark, with book, by Amy Crook](https://amysnotdeadyet.com/stuff/skeleton-bookmark-b.jpg)
Skeleton Bookmark, with book, by Amy Crook
(book not included. foot bones also not included.)
Categories: Daily Art, Series and Books, Zombies, Skulls, and Other Morbid Things
Tags: bookmark, buy a bookmark, for sale, pencil, skeleton