Posts Tagged ‘tree’
August 2025 Sketch Cards
Thursday, October 2nd, 2025
Another month, another batch of sketches! I hope you’re having a lovely fall, and that the actual autumnal weather finds you with hot cider and a warm sweater, whenever it happens.
- Eric asked for a scoundrel, and Lando is last on his list! (sold)
- Jeff prompted “coffee needs coffee” and I got silly with it (sold)
- Kelly asked for trees and has three to choose from, haha, starting with this one (sold)
- And here is a second tree with an orangier sunset going on
- SaraBeth wanted a dragon and this little guy hoards dust bunnies. They’re just so cosy to nap on! (sold)
- Amy B wanted a birb, and also has two to choose from (sold)
- Jo wanted some sun to cheer her up when the weather’s grey, so here’s some tiny birds flying past a nice big sun
- Here’s tree number three, all foggy and spooky with a little crow friend
- Nick wanted the Honmoon from KPDH and I went for a rainbow version
- And here’s a borb to go with the other birb (sold)
Categories: Abstract and Just Plain Weird, Angels, Cthulhu, and Other Myths, 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: amy b, copic marker, dragon, eric, jefferson, jove, kelly, nick, pen and ink, sarabeth, star wars, tree, watercolor
July 2025 Sketch Cards
Wednesday, September 10th, 2025
Everything’s running a little late here, Mr. Poddleston had surgery but is recovering nicely, and now all is well. Enjoy the belated sketches!
- SaraBeth asked for Murderbot and gets the must uncomfortable pose I could manage for it (sold)
- I did a stormy-sky tree because I could, with marker on the transparent yupo “paper”
- Jefferson prompted, “100!!…in a row?” and got this weird thing (sold)
- Andria gets this scribbly white squirrel
- Amy B got a murderous mongoose (sold)
- Cole asked for a peaceful landscapey thing and this is as close as I get haha
- Kelly asked for a dragonfly, and got this one guy, though I kind of want to do more of these so feel free to ask again 😉 (sold)
- Eric asked for Han Solo or Lando, and gets Han this time. Lando next I guess! (sold)
- Rebecca S wanted to belatedly celebrate birthday things, and so did this kitten
- JoVE asked for a fairy godmother and got this cheerful lady!
Categories: Abstract and Just Plain Weird, Angels, Cthulhu, and Other Myths, 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: amy b, andria, cat, cole, copic marker, eric, jefferson, jove, kelly, murderbot, pen and ink, rebecca s, sarabeth, star wars, tree
March 2025 Patron Sketches
Wednesday, April 30th, 2025
Confession, I did these by accident last month, but here they are today!
- Not a request! Just a tree sunset kinda thing, per my usual ouevre
- Eric asked for Mustang and got a sad wet version of Roy from FMA:B
- Amy B requested raccoons and got this trio of trash pandas
- Jefferson prompted “chaos” and that’s exactly what he got (sold)
- Rey asked for “Facts Matter” for what I think are obvious reasons, so I went with word art in soothing neutrals (sold)
- Kelly wanted a cheetah and I was just feeling the emoji style
- SaraBeth asked for a guillotine, power to the people
- And finally some twilight and a weird tree I saw on my trip
Categories: Abstract and Just Plain Weird, Completed Commissions, 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: amy b, cat, copic marker, eric, fmab, jefferson, kelly, pen and ink, rey, sarabeth, tree, watercolor
Crescent Moon
Sunday, April 7th, 2024
Crescent Moon, 5″x7″ watercolor and pen & ink on paper, $250.
This little night scene is more my usual thing, though the cypress trees are evergreen and therefore look alive all year long. Their long shadows are subtle against the deep blue-and-purple sky, and there’s even a cat hiding among them to grace us with its presence.
Instead of corvids we have a little trio of batty bats flying past, which you can see in the detail photo.
Crescent Moon, detail, by Amy Crook
Categories: Flowers, Trees and Landscapes, Sea Creatures and Other Animals, Series and Books
Tags: bat, cat, horizons, pen and ink, sold, tree, watercolor
Consuming Sunlight
Monday, April 1st, 2024
Consuming Sunlight, 12″x12″ acrylic ink on paper, $450.
An unusually large painting for me, this one is also set in the daytime instead of the middle of the night. Weird!
This corvid is trying to wrap his beak around something far too large and abstract for it, as the sun shines through the tree branches, turning them red-gold. In the detail, you can see real sunlight shining off the bird, and the tangle of winter-bare sticks in the middle of the tree.
Consuming Sunlight, detail, by Amy Crook
Categories: Flowers, Trees and Landscapes, Sea Creatures and Other Animals
Tags: acrylic ink, crow, for sale, horizons, tree
June 2022 Patreon sketches
Thursday, March 30th, 2023
Not a ton of requests from June, so there’s a wee trio of cards. These are all the size of a standard playing card, known as ATC or ACEO for Artist Trading Card (when traded) or Artist Card, Edition Original (when sold). The more you know.
June 2022 ACEO sketches by Amy Crook
- Jefferson asked for “Cherry Festival”
- Eric asked for “gloom”
- R&A asked for “Do not sell the baby online!”
These were all claimed before they were even made, whee!
Categories: Completed Commissions, Flowers, Trees and Landscapes, People, Figures and Faces
Tags: copic marker, nfs, rey, salt, sold, tree, watercolor
The Reaching Tree
Wednesday, June 8th, 2022
The Reaching Tree, 5″x7″ watercolor on paper
It’s a tree of a different color! Deep violet-black and slightly glittery, this amethyst paint uses real minerals to create gorgeous textures. The moon has a little extra shine of its own, as it should, but the painting is otherwise entirely monochrome.
The tree reaches into the sky, always seeking something in the way of trees. Below it, the figure has more hands than seems strictly warranted, reaching just as the tree is, though possibly not for the same thing.
Just in case, perhaps stay out of arms’ reach. If you can figure out how long that is, anyway.
The Reaching Tree, detail, by Amy Crook
Above, you can see the way the figure’s ghostly arms reach and reach. Is one of them reaching for you? Well, you can keep it safely behind glass in a frame, should you wish to.
The Reaching Tree, framed art by Amy Crook
Categories: Angels, Cthulhu, and Other Myths, Floating Gallery, Flowers, Trees and Landscapes, People, Figures and Faces, Zombies, Skulls, and Other Morbid Things
Tags: amethyst, crow, for sale, ghost, primatek, tree, watercolor
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