Geli Print - Floral Doodle - Think Positive

I pulled out one of my geli prints I didn't like very much and decided to play with it... and this just evolved...
size: 6.5"w x 7"h
Done on LBS End paper created the floral design using a ZiG Writer, a Pentel Pocket Brush, Uniball white gel pen. For the lettering Bleed Proof white and Zebra nib shadowing with a black Juice Up pen.

words: Think positive spring is around the corner.

ECS Env Exchange Feb 2025 - Jeanine Alexander

Env: Funky style lettering on the envie using Prisma colored pencils and Juice Up pen for outlining. Rubber stamped corners by Lili of the Valley using Distress pad Barn Door and clear embossed.

Card done on cold press watercolor paper rubber stamped with various leaf stamps by Designed By Ryn. Words done in Gwen Weaver style writing.

Scribbled Lives - Wk 8 - Nikki Giovanni - Nothing Easy

wk 8 - Nikki Giovanni - Nothing Easy
Size: 6"sq
On Black cardstock created the lettering (Art Nouveau style) and with a Uniball white Gel pen inked in the negative areas. With various colors of Gelly Roll metallic pens created the spacer boxes. Added the authors name and a more readable version of the quote for some...

Leafy Floral - Dr Seuss - Fantasy

This is another piece that just evolved...
size: 4"w x 5"h
On Canson Pen & Ink paper created the leafy floral design using  Zig Writer then painted with watercolors.

Text written with a Zebra pointed pen nib and Sumi ink in my script style of writing...

words: I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. Dr Seuss

Spiral Doodle - Challenges

I LOVE doing these spiral designs and then found the quote...
size: 4"w x 5.5"h
On Canson Pen & Ink paper drew the swirl design and colored with Prisma colored pencils. Then found a quote to go with it. A basic thick/thin monoline done with a pointed pen and Sumi ink

words: It's our challenges & obstacles that give us layers of depth & make us interesting. Ellen De Generes

Abstract Bkgrd - Lay It On Me

I saw something in my Facebook feed by Andrea Wunderlich and it inspired me...
size: 6"w x 5.5"h
Continuing to play on black cardstock, so with the left over piece from my previous post (12 x 12 scrapbook cardstock.)
Using a white Uniball Signo pen drew out the letters then created the design background using Black Edition colored pencils.

words: Lay It On Me

White On Black - Amoeba

I was just doodling and these things emerged... they reminded me of amoeba...
size: 6"sq
I was in a mood to work on black cardstock so pulled out a piece of 12 x 12 scrapbook cardstock.
Using a white Uniball Signo pen and a Juice Up pen created the design and added the text in a basic monoline.

words: We can choose, you know, we ain't no amoeba. Bonnie Raitt

Doodle Frames - The Sun Rises

I just started drawing wiggly line rectangles and then realized they could be frames... Then I started doodling in them leaving some areas blank for color.
size: 6"w x 4.5"h
Done on Canson Pen & Ink paper drew out the abstract wiggly frame using a Zig Writer, then doodled areas and colored with Prisma colored pencils and a Lyra Splender Blender.
Text written with a Zebra nib and Sumi ink in my script style.

words: The sun rises, the day begins

WC - Linear Leaves - Art Is The Flower

I saw a sprig of leaves like this and then decided to create a piece adding another sprig...
size: 5.5"w x 4.5"h
Done on Canson Pen & Ink paper drew out the leaves then painted them wet on wet, dropping in my favorite blue and green (Holbien Peacock Blue & Permanent Green) watercolors. When dry added the linear lines in the base leaves.
Text written with a Zebra nib and Sumi ink in Gwen Weaver style lettering.

words: Art is the flower... life the green leaf. Charles Rennie MacKintosh

Scribbled Lives Wk 7 - Inspirational Cards

Size each: 2.5"w x 3.5"h
Done on St Armand watercolor paper. Using a Zig Writer for the border, lettering and design elements. Painted with Holbien  Peacock Blue (my favorite blue) and lots of water. Rounded the corners. Lettering in a basic monoline.

words:
Be True To Yourself
Think Positive
Start The Day With A Smile
The Best Is Yet To Come

Colorful Doodle Leaves A Falling

I'm finding so much inspiration on Facebook...
size: 4"w x 5"h
Done on Canson Pen & Ink paper drew out the abstract doodle using a Zig Writer and watercolors.
Text written with a Zebra nib and Sumi ink in Shaded Base Spencerian style.

words: Leaves A Falling

Decorated R - Ruby

Just doodling and this is what evolved...
size: 5.5"w x 3.5"h
Not sure why I picked the letter "R" but went with it... On Canson Pen & Ink paper drew out the letter and colored with Prisma colored pencils.
Text and filigree done with a Zebra G nib and Sumi ink in Shaded Base - Spencerian taught by Nina Tran through OCSFC.

words: Ruby

Patchwork Doodled Card

size: 6"w x 5"h

Another doodling design and then added some of my end pieces of geli print paper to create the card.

Done on Canson Pen & Ink paper drew out the abstract doodle using Juice Up pen and a Zig Writer and colored with Prisma colored pencils. Trimmed down and adhered to white 110# card base.

words: Patch Work

 

BVCG Galleria - Teacup - 5 Ways

Our Galleria topic for March 2025 is 1 word written 5 ways. I've done this before for a Scribbled Lives prompt. Then I did one called Whirlpool recently... now Teacup
size: 4.25"sq
On misc cardstock created my decorated teacup using Juice Up pen and Zig Writer, colored with Prsma Colored pencils in "tea" colors... Don't drink mine with milk -  ugh!!

words: Teacup

Art of the Fold - Envelope Book - This That Whatever

Size closed: 4.5"w x 5.75"h x 1/2thk
Our next challenge was to create an envelope booklet. So I raided an area in my art room I haven't been in in eons... and came across these invitation size envelopes which I will never use...so out they came...

Cut a slit in the spine area and adhere a piece of folded white cardstock (it was textured stuff that cracked a bit...) attaching 2 envelopes together. continued till all were attached. Then adhered the covers which I covered with a piece of inked/painted paper toweling I made EONS ago and landed in the same junk pile...

Inked a piece of the cardstock for the title (This That Whatever) using a pointed nib and Sumi ink in shaded base - Spencerian lettering I recently learned .

 

ECS Brush Lettering Feb 5/25

ECS hosted Sally Penley to teach us Brush Lettering. Fun Evening.

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words: monomania (twice), ambition, monochromatic

Scribbled Lives Wk 6 -1 Letter 4 Ways

Size: 3.25"sq
On Genoa Bond calligraphy paper I choose the letter "H". Letters inked with a Zig Writer and a Juice Up pen. Colored with Prisma colored pencils.

The 1st "h" sitting on the left edge is a Gwen Weaver style "h" colored in greens.

The "H' sitting on top of it is a capital Script lettering "H" in pink.

The "H" next and underneath the script letter is just a basic monoline capital "H" in blues.

The last "h" sits on the right edge in "Demi Lune" style lettering. Linear stripes.

Concentric Circles - I Don`t Believe

Just playing with my circle template... using various colors of Juice Up pens. Added some coordinating glitter in the colored circles.
size: 5.5"sq
Text written with a Zebra G nib and Sumi ink in a funky lettering style I just learned through OCSFC with Nina Tran (Shaded Base - Spencerian). This text was written on a slight slant but can be written upright as well.
words:
I don't believe that life is linear. I think of it as circles - concentric circles that connect. Michelle Williams.

Doodled - Tangling

Size: 5"w x 8"h
Working on Canson Pen & Ink paper using a Juice Up pen, Zig Writer and Prisma colored pencils

words: Tangling

Floral- All Things Are Easy

size:7"sq
Just doodling away again in my Canson Pen & Ink paper booklet. Drew the flowers using various colors of Juice Up pens and a Zig Writer as well as Prisma colored pencils.
Text written with a Zebra G nib and Sumi ink in a funky lettering style. I started writing the text and put the word "easy" before the word "difficult"... so I continued with my save...

words:
All things are easy before you think too much or maybe all things are difficult before they are easy.

The White Red Rose

size:7"sq
Just doodling away in my Canson Pen & Ink paper booklet. Drew the rose using a Juice Up pen and a Zig Writer as well as Prisma colored pencils blending with a Lyra Splendor Blender
Text written with the Juice Up pen

words:
The red rose whispers of passion
The white rose breathes of love
O, the red rose is  falcon
And the white rose is a dove
John BoyleO'Reilly

BVCG Galleria - Whirlpool 4

Our Galleria topic for March 2025 is 1 word written 5 ways. I've done this before for a Scribbled Lives prompt. So needed to do something completely different...
After doing the 1st 3 renditions I decided to do 1 more...
size: 6.25"sq
On Canson mixed media paper created my whirlpool lines and then wrote in various lettering styles using a Zig Writer or a Sharpie pen. Colored with Black Edition colored pencils.

words: Whirlpool

BVCG Galleria - March 2025 - Whirlpool

Our Guild's (BVCG) Galleria topic for March 2025 is 1 word written 5 ways. I've done this before for a Scribbled Lives prompt. So needed to do something completely different...
size: 6.25"sq
On Canson mixed media paper created my whirlpool lines and then wrote in various lettering styles using a Zig Writer or a Sharpie pen. Painted with various brands of watercolors and a gold Uniball gel pen.
words: Whirlpool

The 2 images below were done on copy paper and using Posca colored pencils. I'm still not sure if any of these are my final pieces...

 

Believe In Yourself - on Black

I created this piece while playing with the gals in my Stillman & Birn Nova Tria Mixed Media book (black section).
size: 6"w x 5.5"h
Designed my letters then inked them with a Uniball white gel pen. Colored with Black Edition colored pencils leaving a narrow black section around each letter. When done I had these empty areas which I filled with my odd shaped boxes. I decided to leave them blank rather than color them in.

words: Believe In Yourself

Scribbled Lives Wk 5 - Birth Gems - Turquoise

wk 5 -  Birth Gem - Turquoise
Size: 10"w x 8"h

Created the gem artwork and cut it out using it as my "o" for my gem name. On black scrapbook cardstock drew my main word coloring with Black Edition colored pencils and a Gelly Roll white gel pen.

Quote written in Fickle lettering style with Bleed Proof white and Zebra nib.

words: My family could only afford to get me the box of 8 crayola crayons, but I wanted the one with 24 colours. I wanted magenta and turquoise and silver and gold. Joni Mitchel

Folded Ruling pen with Kerri Forster

I took a live class with Kerri Forster - Folded Ruling  Pen this past weekend. The last time I took a class with Kerri using this tool was in  2016
This is the best of what I did this past weekend... sigh and that's saying a lot. I seem to have digressed in the past 8 years.

On Canson XL Pen & Ink paper using my funky mix of Holbien gouache paints and either Tim's folded pen or a basic folded pen.

Cat's Got Your Tongue

size: 6"w x 5"h
On Edge Mixed Media paper using a Zig Writer & Itoya Double Header Calligraphy pen and shadowed with yellow marker.

words: Cat's Got Your Tongue

Scribbled Lives Wk 4 - Foreign Language - Flemish

I was born in Antwerp, Belgium which is a bilingual country (Flemish &  French)
Size: 5"w x 4.5"h
Created on Canson Mixed Media paper using Holbien gouache (mix of Burnt Umber, Dk Green & Pearl Copper) with pointed pen script lettering. Translation in monoline.

Quote: The limit of my language means the limit of my world. Ludwig Wittgenstein

translated into Flemish: de grenzen van mijn taal zijn de grenzen van mijn wereld

Doodled Leaves - Artistic Creativity

size: 7"w x 6.5"h
On Edge Mixed Media paper using a Zig Writer & various watercolors for the leaves. A Juice Up pen for the words
words: Artistic Creativity is a whirlpool of imagination that swirls into the depths of the wind. Robert Toth

ECS Env Exchange - Jan 2025 - Barbara Keir

For the envie I used a heavy weight (unknown brand) of text paper. I adhered the design done on Canson Mixed Media paper to the front and camouflaged it with the red border... For the lettering used 2 (3.8) parallel pens, one filled with Ecoline Scarlet ink the other with deAtramantis pearlescent (Cyan/Copper) ink in a funky style lettering, graphite/paper stump shadow. Address with 2 colors of Juice Up pen.
Card was something I created last year.

Doodled Squares - Gilded Tedious

This took waaay longer than I expected to create it... a lot of manipulating  my ruler to draw straight lines. Hence the word "Tedious".
size: 5.5"sq
On Edge Mixed Media paper created my square design using Juice Up pen, colored with Posca colored pencils and  Gansai Tambi gold paint. Word done in a funky style with variegated gold leaf. Small gold and silver mini rhinestones glued to the centers of the squares

word: Tedious