Colored Pencil Stripe Bkgrd - Summer's Last Hoorah

size: 4"sq
On Stillman & Birn Nova Tria Mixed Media black colored my with Prisma colored pencils. White gel pen for the lettering. Since I didn't like the look so much went over with W/N white Calligraphy Ink.
words: Summer's Last Hoorah

Abstract Doodle - Every Moment Matters

size: 5"w x 4"h
On Stillman & Birn Nova Tria Mixed Media black paper drew out my abstract border using Gelly Roll white gel pen, Prisma colored pencils and metallic gel pen dots.
Text written with the gel pens in a funky monoline style.
words: Every Moment Matters

Doodled Swirl Border - Happiness Is

size: 5"w x 6"h
On Stillman & Birn Nova Tria Mixed Media black paper drew out my feathery border using Gelly Roll white gel pen and Prisma colored pencils. Added metallic gel pen dots.
Text written with a pointed nib and W/N Calligraphy Ink in a pressure release style.
words: Happiness is not a goal, it's a by product. Eleanor Roosevelt

Doodled Triangles - Humming Of The Strings

size: 5.5"w x 4.5"h
On Canson XL Pen & Ink paper drew out my triangle shapes and doodled inside them and the words using a Juice Up pen. Colored with Prisma Colored pencils.
words: There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres. Pythagoras

Circle Border - Silence Of Thought

I was playing with this circle border...
size: 5.5"sq
On Canson Mixed Media paper drew out several sized circles and spaced diagonal lines through the center to create this design... and even with that I still got some sections a little wonky...colored with Prisma colored pencils, then added the gem in the center.
Words written with a pink toned metallic gel pen and then shadowed with a black Juice Up pen.
words: Painting is the silence of thought and the music of sight. Orhan Pamuk

Chain - Give Up Worry

I saw this chain design on Facebook I thin... so started playing with the design.
size: 4.5"w x 6"h
On Canson Pen & Ink paper using a Zig Writer for the outlines and Prisma Colored Pencils.
Funky lettering with a Brown Zig Writer

words: Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind and has given up worry once and for all. Ovid

Waves - SetYour Soul Free

I was playing with these spiral shapes and the rest evolved...
size: 6"w x 4.5"h
On Canson Pen & Ink paper using a Zip Writer for the outlines and Prisma Colored Pencils and some metallic gel pens for the dots.

Funky lettering with a green Zig Writer

words: Dance with the waves
Move with the sea
Let the rhythm of the water
set your soul free.
Christy Ann Martine

Red Peony - Flower Power

Another piece done while playing with the gals
size: 4.5"w x 6"h
On Canson XL Pen & Ink paper drew out my flower and colored with Prisma Colored pencils. Added the word FLOWER POWER and hatched with a Juice Up pen.
words: Flower Power

BVCG Env Exc - Aug 2025 - Renate Worthington

Env created onGenoa Bond paper, Funky letters with a Marvy 5.0 Calligraphy marker and doodled with various colored metallic gel pens. Deco roses with Prisma colored pencils.

The insert (not a card) was something I created a long time ago and colored with FineTech metallic paints

Building Blocks - Civil Society

I was drawing interlocking squares, then added those oval shaped stones... Again no idea where my mind was going...
size: 4.5"w x 6"h
On Canson XL Pen & Ink paper colored the squares with a different color of blue or green Prisma colored pencil. A Brown marker for the intersections. Text written with a med Blue Juice Up pen in basic monoline

words: Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society. Alexander McCall Smith

On Black - Doodled Gems

I had doodled the gem image a while ago and finally finished it.
size: 4.5"w x 6"h
On Canson Black XL Drawing  paper colored the gem image with Prisma colored pencil. Used Uniball white gel pen as well as a Juice Up and white ink. Lettering with the white gel pen in a funky lettering style.

words: Blooming Gems

Swirling Ladder - Bridge To Nowhere

Just started doodling and that ladder thing evolved and then I added the funky plant thingies...
size: 6"w x 4.5"h
On Canson XL Pen & Ink Paper, ZIG Writer, Prisma colored pencils. Weaver style writing with a Zig Writer.
words: A bridge, a stairway - to nowhere...

Floral Tentacles - Gladys Taber

I seem to be in a funk lately... not sure why.
size: 4.5"w x 6"h
On Canson XL Pen &Ink Paper, Zig Writer, Prisma Colored pencils. Juice Up pens, gel pens.
words: The tentacles of today reach out like an octopus to swallow yesterday. Gladys Taber

Glazed Donuts - YUM

I guess I must have had a craving for donuts... luckily they were only on paper...
size: 4.5"w x 6"h
On Canson XL Pen &Ink Paper, Zig Writer Prisma Colored pencils. gel pens, graphite pencil shading and paper stump.
words: Glazed Donuts YUM!

Flower In A Teacup

size: 6"h x 4.5"w
I was playing with this flower... boy that's a lot of pink!!
On Canson XL Pen &Ink Paper using metallic Prisma colored pencils. Lettering a la Lisa Engelbrecht style using Pentel Arts Fine Point Color Pens
words: A Flower In A Teacup

Zentangle - IDOZ2025 - Crazy Huggins

I saw the replay of International Day Of Zentangle and decided I'd play with the tangle.
size: 5"h x 4.5"w
On Canson XL Pen &Ink Paper using a ZIG Writer for the outlines and a Juice U pen for the details. Colored with Prisma colored pencils and various metallic and gel pens.

words: International Day Of Zentangle 2025 Crazy Huggins

Yellow Daisy On Black - Single Flower

Size: 6"w x 4.5"h
Continuing using some of my black drawing paper...
On Canson XL Black Drawing Paper using metallic gel pens and Prisma colored pencils
words: If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly our whole life would change.

Leaves - Blowing In The Wind

I just bought some black drawing paper and this is the last piece I did while with the gals...
size: 6"w x 4.5"h
On Canson XL Black Drawing Paper using metallic gel pens and Prisma colored pencils

words: Blowing in the wind

Four Gems - Ruby Amber

I just bought some black drawing paper and while with the gals continued using it...

I wondered about the spelling of Saphire and looked it up before I wrote it and this is the way it was spelt... And now writing this post it said I spelt "Saphire" wrong. sheesh... Since writing this post a friend decided to look it up as well and found it said this was an alternative way to write it. thank you
size: 6"w x 4.5"h
On Canson XL Black Drawing Paper using metallic gel pens and Prisma colored pencils

words: Ruby Amber Saphire Emerald

Abstract - I Love Doodling

I just bought some black drawing paper and while with the gals I had to use it...
size: 6"w x 4.5"h
On Canson XL Black Drawing Paper using metallic gel pens, Juice Up pen and Prisma colored pencils

words: I love doodling
Juice Up Pen
Gelly Roll
Colored Pencils
Yes!