It's A Rocky Life

It's a Rocky Life

Size: 3.5"w x 5.5"h
Playing with the gals and just doodling...
Canson Mixed Media paper, loose watercolor background, Juice Up pen and graphite shading.

Barbara Close - Festive Boxes Class

I took a ZOOM class with Barbara Close Last evening hosted by Edmonton Calligraphy Society. Love her style. I turned my artwork into greeting cards.

This Thank You card is my favorite...

size: 5"sq
I lightly penciled in my center box and with a wide flat brush loaded it with water and dusted Brusho Powder over it, first with yellow and then with the blue which came out a bit too much... Dried.
Repeatedly wrote the words "Thank You" with a Nikko G nib and Sumi ink in a script writing style. Adhered to a blue cardstock then onto my side folded yellow card base. 

 

It's all supposed to be square or rectangular boxes... but I said to myself there are round ones too...

size: 4" x 5.5" top fold: Drew the circle, Wrote the words "Happy Holidays in a monoline then painted over the writing with various watercolors, added some Viva Glitter Liner "Holo Iridescent", cut out and adhered to my top folded card base which I dry embossed (Crafts Too - Poinsettia Frame) and hit the high points with Distress pads in pink and purple.

Wrote out the words "Happy Holidays on the card as well using Zebra Funwari Fude purple Brush Pen

   

size: 6.25"w x 4.25"h
I wet a square or rectangular shape with water using a flat brush, then added some color here and there. Since I used a lot of water my boxes were still wet when I finished coloring them so blotted them with a paper towel giving a nice pastel look. Used a Juice Up pen to draw my letters and doodled within them.
Mounted to yellow cardstock then onto my blue top folded card base.

 

size: 5.5"w x 4.5"h
I cut up a sponge to 1"sq blocks and dipped into my mixing section of my watercolor palette, then sponged over top of them. When dry used a black Elegant Writer Scroll tip pen. Adhered to a yellow base then a Core'Dinations green card stock then onto my white side folded card base. 

 

 

Xmas Doodled Ornament - Make A Wish

Size: 5"w x 7"h
Another doodled project...
On Canson Mixed Media paper using Juice up pen  watercolors and Prisma colored pencils. Adhered to a red cardstock and a white card base.

Greeting Card - DoodledOrnaments_Merry&Bright

I was in a mood to doodle and decided to make an ornament Xmas card. I really like the results.

On Canson Mixed Media paper using a Zig Writer created my ornaments. Used a Juice Up pen to doodle and colored pencils both Prisma & Super Ferby Metallic. Added a black border then adhered to a red 5" x 7" card base

Art Of The Fold - Tunnel Book - Merry Christmas

Our December project was to make a tunnel book. Haven't made one of those in several years... and since we're in December... thought I'd make it an Xmas themed one. 

 

I used a heavy weight white cardstock (unknown brand probably 140#) for the pages. Dry embossed the cover and hit the high points with a red Distress pad.(I forget it expands the paper a bit so my first page warped a little - sigh!!)

The back page was stamped with a winter house scene and the area around the stamping colored with Distress Oxide pad Broken China.

I pulled out a pile of wintry and tree dies and cut from Staples white 110# cardstock. Colored with Distress pads. Added some glitter to the snowflakes and glossy accents to the red berries.

Well if nothing else I've finally used some of my embossing folder/stamp and dies which I haven't used in many years...

 

 

Hanukkah 2023 Card

I don't make a lot of Hanukkah cards, but I was in a mood to create one for my aunt.

On Can Pro Marker paper using Juice up pen and Prisma colored pencils. Adhered to a red card base.

Scribbled Lives 2023 - Wk 48 - Graffiti - Yogi

Size: 7"w x 5.5"h
I love doing Graffiti lettering... on BEE Super Deluxe paper using a Sharpie pen and misc watercolors, doodled and shadowed my name.

Celtic Coloring Demo Sheets

Celtic Coloring demo Sheets

 

On mixed media paper coloring pencils do not work very well.

Too grainy

 

 

Black Edition On Black - Hexgons - Hello

I've been having a lot of fun with my Black Edition colored pencils. I started drawing these hexagon shapes and the next thing I knew I was adding abstract designs within them... When finished creating the hex's I decided to make it into a card and added the word "Hello"

On Recollections black cardstock, using my Black Edition colored pencils, colored in the hexagons with misc designs. Monolined the word "Hello" and adhered to Staples 110# white cardstock to create the card.

Flat Brush Technique for Celtic Designs

Creating Celtic letters with a flat brush is not that difficult if you don't mind a larger design... I find it very difficult t use small brushes.

You'll need a light pad with a very bright light, your Celtic grid paper, and your water media paper (I used Canson Mixed Media 98#).

If you're doing a more complex design Use a single line design on the grid paper to follow on your mixed media paper keeping the line on the design in the middle of your flat brush.

Black Edition On Black - Abstract - Bubbles

I'm really loving my Black Edition colored pencils... I started doodling while checking out Instagram. Again I saw something I liked and just played with the thought. I LOVE my bubbles....

On Recollections black cardstock using Faber Castell Black Edition colored pencils, a Geli Roll white pen for outlining and highlight marks. 

I need a more square image for instagram... hence the lower image...

 

Celtic "L" with Color Chart

Another letter done for our alphabet challenge in our Celtic group...

Size: 2.5"w x 4.5"h
On Fabriano 1264Mixed Media paper outlined my Celtic letter with a Micron 08 pen. Colored with Inktense w/c pencils "Deep Violet". Shadowed with the Micron pen and added Holographic sticky dots.

 

Scribble Lives 2023 - Wk 47 - Alphabetically Speaking - Celtic "Y" Gilded

ID: wk 47 - Alphabetically Speaking - Celtic "Y" Gilded

This week on Scribbled Lives we need to create a letter only... no text. Since I've done a Celtic "H" & "G" I decided to do a "Y"...

Size: 4"w x 5.5"h
On Paper Reflections black cardstock outlined my Celtic letter with a Sakura white 08 Geli Roll pen.
Gilded the center ovals with Roberson's "red gold"23K gold leaf and the rest with Mona Lisa Red Leaf using a Designa Size Quick Pen gold leaf adhesive.
Colored the knot work with Black Edition colored pencils. Added some holographic gel glitter in the 3 dots.

Coptic - Chuckles 1

Size closed: 4"w x 5"h x 3/8"thk
I haven't done a coptic binding since 2010... but thought it would work for this project, but not as well as I thought. Definitely out of practice...

It's 4 signatures of 3 or 4 folios with a total of 52 pages. I only wrote on the right side of each page.

A friend sent me a bunch of funny sayings and I was in a mood to create a booklet of them. Another friend had just given me some wonderful 80# paper that had a slight glossy feel to it and I love writing on it... sorry don't know the exact name of it...

You might notice a title on back and front covers... I realized after writing it, it was on the back cover and consequently upside down... so instead of trying to correct or camouflage it I enhanced it with "Ha Ha Wrong Side..." I'm still chuckling...

Text written with a .08 Micron pen in a funky monoline style. I love interconnecting letters... then colored with Prisma colors #905, 917 & 926 

 

Funky Alphabet O to R

Funky Alphabet O to R

3.5"sq. Sharpie outline, ZIG Clean Color w/c brushes 

Celtic Alphabet - Gold J On Black

 

Size: 3"w x 5.75"h

"J" on Black Recollections cardstock using Kuretake Brilliant Gold Mica ink and a pointed nib (Brause #361) to outline my letter, Pilot Juice Up Metallic pens for the inner shading (gold for the outer string and a pink for the inner string). Pity it doesn't scan well... I used hash lines for the shading strokes. Gold Unibal gel pen for the dots.

Webster on Black

I recently purchased the 100 set Faber-Castell Black Edition colored pencils specifically created for black paper from Kensington Art Supply here in Calgary. They really are great. Creamy.

I was playing with my friend and started doodling her name. Used a white Uniball gel pen.

Black Edition - Join Me

I recently purchased the 100 set Faber-Castell Black Edition colored pencils specifically created for black paper from Kensington Art Supply here in Calgary. So I wanted to try them on other colors and I love the results...

On Michaels Recollection Jewel cardstock.
"A" on the red outlined with a Signo gold gel pen.
"O" on the blue a Sakura Geli roll white pen.
"i" on the green a Signo silver gel pen
"n" on the purple a black Signo gel pen which barely showed up when dry so went over it with US ArtQuest Mica Color "Sepia Veil".
Cut the letters in funky shapes and adhered to black Paper Reflections cardstock. Outlined with a Juice It white pen, and wrote in the word "me"

Newsprint - Xmas Ornament

size: 2.5"dia x 3.5"

More stuff inspired from Instagram
IG: bonecas.da.neide

Created a template of half the shape I wanted from cardstock. 3"h x 1.25"w

Using a very old cheap outdated encyclopedia paper, folded in half and placed my template against the folded edge. traced the template, then  cut out (I folded 3 pages at a time since it's very thin paper). Cut 24 shapes.

Adhere one half to another half and glue from the folded edge to the outer edge in a  straight line approx. 1/2" down from the top, then at the mid point and then about 1/2" from the bottom.

Adhere the next half in straight lines from about the 1/2 from the top and 1/2" from the bottom. continue gluing in this sequence.

(Not sure why it's glued this way...)

Before gluing the last one to close the ornament, adhere a string down the spine for hanging, then glue the last fold together. I added the beads as decoration.

Wk46 - Special Place - My Art Room

Scribbled Lives 2023 - Wk46 - Special Place - My Art Room

I have a 3 bedroom home and I converted my living room into my art room many many years ago... I'm in it from when I get up in the morning to when I go back upstairs in the evening... 

On Genoa bond paper using an HB pencil wrote out the text in "Versatile Vyaz" (Thomas Vezina). He's apparently one of the online Iampath instructors and I've come across his style on Instagram quite a bit. I love funky style writing...

words: My art room: all day every day

Toilet Roll Snowflake

size: 5"sq x 1/2" thk
More stuff inspired from Instagram
IG: paper.crafts.in
Used 3.5 toilet rolls... Squished the toilet roll flat and cut at 1/2" increments. Painted the large ones with silver acrylic paint, both sides. Adhered together at the center point.

Cut the next 3 strips in half at both ends, painted them gold. Adhere inside the silver loops.

Continue cutting the loops in half at both ends and painting in copper for the outside loop design.

I punched a small hole in my top loop and strung my cord adding a bead in the loop.

Black Edition On Grey - YES

I recently purchased the 100 set Faber-Castell Black Edition colored pencils specifically created for black paper from Kensington Art Supply here in Calgary. They really are great. Creamy.

Size: 3"w x 7"h

I created this on Rhodio Pascribe's Grey calligraphy paper. I forgot I had it... but was looking for something else and said yes to trying with the Black Edition. They work beautifully on that paper. Not so much my Sharpie pen... it bled through to the next page - sigh! The lettering glows in real  life - not so much in the image.

As mentioned a Sharpie fine point tip for all the black stuff and a Uniball Signo white gel point for the highlights.

And I just noticed the Sharpie has 2 ends fine & ultra fine... go figure I never realized that. ROFL.

ECS - Nov Env Exchange - Joyce Steeby

Another couple ECS envelopes done... I went through some calligraphy styles I collected in 2015 which I really like - funky... so thought I'd play with it.

On misc unknown brand of calligraphy paper using a 5.0 Marvy calligraphy marker, Signo Unibal gel pens - gold for outline and decorations, white for doodling

The card was created during one of the summer workshop weeks I attended.

 

 

Black Edition On Black - All

I recently purchased the 100 set Faber-Castell Black Edition colored pencils specifically created for black paper from Kensington Art Supply here in Calgary. They really are great. Creamy.

All done on Michaels black cardstock

ID: Black Edition - Hey...
size: 2.5"w x 4.25"hUsed a Signo Gold gel pen to outline and highlight some of the letter than with the colored pencils for a striped design. 

 

ID: Black Edition - Fun
size: 3.25"w x 2"h
Used a Signo Gold gel pen to outline the letters and the dot detail, than with the colored pencils for the design and shadowing...

ID: Black Edition - Hello
size: 5"w x 2"h
Used a Signo Gold gel pen to create the letters than with the colored pencils for the shadowing... 

ECS Nov 2023 - Env Exchange - Jeanine Alexander

Another couple ECS envelopes done... I went through some calligraphy styles I collected in 2015 which I really like - funky... so thought I'd play with it.

Used a 2.0 Marcy Calligraphy marker, Unibal Signo gold for outline leaves, and border and a white for doodling. 

The card was created during one of the summer workshops I've taken.

I used an unknown brand of calligraphy paper to create the envelopes.

 

Celtic Alphabet - K on Black

Size: 3"w x 4.75"h

"K" on Black Recollections cardstock using Bleed Proof white ink to outline the letter with a pointed nib (Brause #361), Gansai Tambi gold paint #902 for the stem and Black Edition colored pencils for the shading using #778 & #779. Gold Unibal gel pen for the dots

Below is an image of the steps I took to get to the finished letter... from concept to final piece.

 

3D Star Structure - Greens

I came across a class by Cherryl Moote and she had an interesting image... so I thought I'd see if I could make something similar.

Used Staples 110# white cardstock. Cut my star with the largest of a Spellbinder's Star die set (approx 3.75"). Doodled with a green Zig Writer.

Cut my stand pieces 3"w x 2"h, folded in half and cut a slit approx 1" deep from the fold to toward the outside edge. Cut pieces of one of my green design geli papers and adhered to each leg.