Pencilwork - I'm Not Ornery

I felt like playing with my pencil for a change...
size: 6"w x 4.5"h
On Canson Mixed Media paper using Caran d'Ache B pencil and paper stump.

words: I'm not ornery. Adj. Bad Tempered or Difficult to deal with

TwoHearts - Heart To Heart

I think this is the worst gilding I've ever done even when I was initially learning the tech... I have a lot of size in my drawer so have been using them one at a time. This one is going in the garbage...
size: 4.5"w x 6"h
On Canson Mixed Media paper using watercolors, gel pen. Text written with  Juice Up pen.

words: Often we live side by side but do not communicate heart to heart. Thomas S Munson

Pink Ribbon Flowers - Charming Gardner

When I was drawing these flowers they felt like ribbons...
size: 4.5"w x 6"h
On Canson Mixed Media paper using Prisma colored pencils and a Lyra Splendor Blender. Text written with  Juice Up pen.

words: Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy, they are the charming gardner who make our souls blossom. Marcel Proust

Shades Of Blue - Learn To Surf

I was in a mood to some kind of blending w/c and this evolved...
size: 6"sq
On St Armand 140# w/c paper. I mixed a large batch of diluted Daniel Smith Phthalo Blue (green shade) with water. Painted the whole page with that color, then painted over it with the same paint mixture leaving one section untouched (that very light blue). Repeated about 7 times before it wouldn't get any darker. I like doing this technique... It reminded me of the ebb and flow of waves.
Added the text using a pointed nib and Bleed Proof white in a loose script style.

words: You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf. Jon Kebat Zinn

Scribbled Lives - wk 18 - Malapropism - Shakespeare

wk 18 -  Malapropism - Shakespeare
Size: 5.5"sq
On Canson Marker paper wrote out the text in a Black Letter style using a 2.4 Parallel pen dipped into Daniel Smith Phthalo Blue (Green Shade) watercolor. Author written with a med toned Blue Juice Up pen.

words: Our watch, sir, have comprehended two auspicious persons. Shakespeare "Much Ado About Nothing"

Abstract Doodle - Housework Can Kill

I was at our Guild's play day this past Saturday and created a bunch of things... this was the 3rd piece I worked on and finished at home - I felt like playing with an involved doodle design...
size: 4.5"w x 6"h
On Canson Mixed Media paper drew a bunch of overlapping squiggly lines, added the large dots at the junctures and larger circles here and there. Started painting areas and then using colored pencils for other areas. No two the same color. Then doodled, again no 2 the same... When I got home added the metallic paints (Kuretake Gansai Tambi). Created the text with a red Juice Up pen

words: Housework can't kill you but why take a chance. Phyliss Diller

Triangle Brush Leaves - Spring Has Sprung

I was at our Guild's play day this past Saturday and created a bunch of things... this was the 2nd piece - I felt like playing with one of my triangle brushes - the smallest one.
size: 4.5"w x 6"h
On Canson Mixed Media paper created the leaves and flowers, added graphite shadow. Text written with a med blue Juice Up pen in a basic monoline.

words: Spring has sprung the grass has riz I wonder where the birdies is. Tom McCallum

Blue Floral - Spring Begins

I was at our Guild's play day this past Saturday and created a bunch of things... this was the 1st piece - I love drawing flowers...
size: 4.5"w x 6"h
On Canson Mixed Media paper drew out the floral design with a Zig Writer and colored with Prisma colored pencils. Used a dot alphabet style for the lettering.

words: Blossom by blossom spring begins

Spritz Bkgrd - The Richer We Become

I was in a mood to do some w/c spritzing... so pulled out my Tim Holtz and Dylusion sprays which I haven't used in eons... Wet my St Armand w/c paper and sprayed with various colors. Blotted some areas and let dry. I really like the results. BIG GRIN and then I came across this quote by Martin Luther King Jr. while surfing the net and it just spoke to me.

size: 8"w x 9"h

I used a Bone lettering style and a Zebra pointed pen nib with a funky inky mix I made a long time ago... (Holbien Burnt Umber, Pearl Copper, Dk Green and N.E. Copper). Crazy mix I know...

words: The richer we become materially the poorer we become spiritually. We have learned to fly in the air like birds and swim in the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together like brothers. Martin Luther King Jr.

Exploding Rainbows Booklet

I forgot I did so many of this style of booklets... but came across it on Facebook and was in a mood to do something with rainbow colors.
size: 2"sq x 1/2" thk.
It's created from 4"squares. I used Canson Colorline heavy paper. added the title on white cardstock and a geli plate ribbon with a velcro type closure.
I drew the funky letters and cut out from a scrap geli print, then outlined with a ZIG Writer. Added a quote beneath the Rainbow word - one word under each letter.
words: Bring a happy smile to my face 

 

Hexagon Endless Book

Our May challenge is to create a Hexagon Booklet  that Mary Conley gave us the instructions for. I redesigned it to create larger hexagons. This one is made up of 13 individual pieces and adhered together with the geli print borders.
Size closed: 5"w x 4"h x 3/4"thk
Again I used my hexagon punch to make an enlarged master piece and then traced around it to get all my hex's down on my 2 colors of scrapbook cardstock. I cut 1/2" strips of geli print to adhere the hexes together and then wrapped a border around each hex.

Since I used a dark green and a light green I needed to use 2 colors of writing implements - a white Gelly Roll .08 and a black Signo Uniball.
The title page has the title "endless" done in white and shadowed with a black Juice Up pen.
I created the box to hold it and added a small textured sticky tab to keep the box closed.
I added a long thin strip of the geli paper (also from my scraps...) which wraps around my booklet to keep it closed.

 

 

 

Scribbled Lives wk 17 - Words of Wisdom - Wisdom 1 & 2

Scribbled Lives - wk 17 - Words Of Wisdom - Wisdom 2

Size: 7"sq
On Edge Mixed Media Sketchbook paper wrote out the word WISDOM using Prisma colored pencils (903, 930, 913, 1002, 916 and 1008)and black for the shadow lines and small text.

words: words of wisdom: he that can have patience can have what he will. Benjamin Franklin

Wisdom 1:
Pic below is the first one I did and then realized I used the wrong media... I like it more it has better ZAP

 

 

On Canson mixed media paper using a 6.0 Parallel pen and Ecoline inks, Juice up pen for the shadow line and a ZIG writer fr the text.

Floral Sunshine On A Stem

I was with the gals again yesterday and this is what I was playing with...
size: 4.5"w x 5"h
On Canson Mixed Media paper drew out the floral design with a Juice Up pen  and colored with Prisma colored pencils. Use DC Rose Font for the lettering.
words: Sunshine On A Stem

Art Of The Fold - Hexagon Alphabet Booklet

Our May (Art of the Fold) challenge is to create a Hexagon Booklet  that Mary Conley gave us the instructions for. This one was done from an 8.5" x 9" piece of Bogus Recycled Sketch Paper. that was laying around...
 

 

 

Size closed: 2"sq
I used a hexagon punch to make a master piece and then traced around it to get all my hex's down on my Bogus paper. Cut my slits and around the perimeter  and inked a border using a Zig Writer.. I then created a smaller hex template for my geli print paper from more scraps... at around 1.25"w x 1.5"h. Adhered them to the larger hexagons.
I had these black die cut letters (Tim Holtz /Alterations/Vintage Market/Sizzlets Decorative Strip) from another project so decided to use them... Edged them with a gold Krylon pen.

 

Two Heart Doodle - Merging Hearts

I just drew these 2 interlocking hearts and the rest evolved...
size: 4.5"w x 5"h
On Canson Mixed Media paper drew out the hearts with a Zig Writer, then started adding misc designs, then added the words and then colored it with various products - Prisma colored pencils, watercolors, Gansai Tambi golds, graphite shading.
words: Merging Hearts

Mushrooms - Myk(c)ologist

A spelling mistake again... it should read Mycologist
Size: 4.5"w x 5"h
Done on Canson Pen & Ink paper using a Zig Writer, Prisma colored pencils, Lyra Splendor Blender, FW white acrylic ink and Juice Up pen for the text (red and black).
words: I'm not a MYKOLOGIST but these sure look poisonous to me.

Doodling - Humming Of The Strings

I  drawing random lines on my paper, then adding the spheres and then found a quote to go with it...
size: 6" w x 4.5" h
Done on Canson Pen & Ink paper using a Zig Writer, Prisma colored pencils, and Juice Up pen for the text.
words: There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres. Pythagoras

Funky - Vituperative

I came across this word and thought it would be fun to write it out...
size: 6" w x 4.5" h
Done on Canson Pen & Ink paper using a Zig Writer, Prisma colored pencils, Lyra Splendor Blender, Caran d'Ache graphite B pencil, paper stump and Lyra Splendor Blender.
words: Vituperative: adj: Bitter & Abusive

Scribbled Lives - Wk 16 - Name - Yogi

Size: 4" sq
On Edge Mixed Media paper drew out my 2.5" squares. Drew the letters of my name and then created rainbows around them. Colored with Prisma colored pencils (924, 918, 916, 912, 903, 933, 1007). Added graphite shading with a Caran d'Ache B pencil and blended with a paper stump.

Doodling - Pollinate Your Dreams

I was playing with this tangle design and they reminded me of bee hives...
size: 4.5" w x 6" h
Done on Canson Pen & Ink paper using a Zig Writer. Then added the text and colored with watercolors.
words: Pollinate your dreams with Persistence

Lyrics - Do It Now

I came across this song the other day on Facebook and can't remember ever really hearing it... so looked it up. It seems (after digging) it was written by Paul McCartney in around 2012. Anyway I was inspired to write it out. It's lengthy and I don't usually do lengthy stuff...
size: 8" w x 12" h
Done on Edge Mixed Media Sketchbook paper using broad edge nibs (Speedball C-5 and Brause 1.5) and Bister inks mahogany (small text) and black (large text) in Uncial style.

words:
we need to wake up
we need to wise up
we need to open up our eyes
Refrain:
and do it
NOW! NOW! NOW!
we need to build a better future
and we need to start right now
we're on a planet
that has a problem
we've got to solve it, get involved
Refrain:
we have to build a future
make it greener
make it cleaner
make it last, make it fast
Refrain:
we need to build a better future
and we need to start right now
no point in waiting or hesitating
we must get wise, take no more lies

Doodling - Restless Imagination

I was doodling that edge section and wasn't sure of where I was going with it... then looked up a quote.
size: 4.5" w x 6" h
Done on Canson Pen & Ink paper using a Juice Up pen and Zig Writer. Then added the text and colored with watercolors.

words: Doodling is exercise for a restless imagination.

Lace - Emerald Moments

I decided to do another one of those lace drawings I've seen on facebook by (Laurence - Rari Créations - Lace Designs) then found a quote to go with the emerald.
size: 4" w x 7" h
Done on photographic background paper. White gel pen and Juice Up pen, Prisma colored pencils. Text with a Nikko G pointed pen nib and FW acrylic ink in a script style.
words: cherished are the emerald moments when time stands still.

Doodling - Yogi H Grinwald

Every time I start with "I seem to be in the mood for..." OK... I seem to be a very moody person... but not really... so I was drawing the letter "Y" to do artwork around it but I ended up doing my name instead and then the doodling.
size: 4.5" w x 6" h
Done on Canson Pen & Ink paper, Zig Writer, Juice Up pen, Uniball gel pens, watercolors.
words: Yogi H Grunwald

Abstract Blossoms - Don't Worry

My moods really jump all over the place...
size: 4.5" w x 6" h
Done on Canson Pen & Ink paper, Zig Writer, Prisma colored pencils. Text done with a Blue Zig Writer.

words: You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry, don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way. Walter Hagen

Scribbled Lives - Wk 15 - Tool Mark

Scribbled Lives wk 15 - Tool Mark
Size: 6"w x 3.25"h

I was checking out everything around me... tested some and didn't like them.. and finally came up with the tissue paper...

On Misc black cardstock, using a Kleenex tissue rolled up dropped some FW acrylic white ink onto the end and then wrote out the word "Test". When dry used a Gelly Roll Metallic pinky/reddish pen to write out "ODD TOOL"

BVCG Env Echange - April 2025 - Kathleen George

ID: Kathleen George (April 2025)
Env created on Arches Text Wove paper in lettering style taught by Lorraine Douglas in Letters As Art class in March. Drew out the letters with a Zig Writer and painted with various w/c colors.

The card was created from a doodled piece I had done and mounted onto one of my geli prints.

On Black - Suggests Color - Homer

I was in a mood to do something on black again and had that scrap piece of Photographic backdrop paper on my table that's glossy on one side and matte on the other. I used the matte side.
size: 7.5" w x 6.5" h
White Unibal gel pen, white Juice Up pen for the artwork and FW Acrylic Ink with a pointed nib for the text.
words: It is wonderful how much depends upon the relations of black and white. A black and white, if balanced, suggests color. Winslow Homer

Mosaic - Life A Mosaic

I was in a mood to do a mosaic kind of piece.
size: 4.5" w x 6" h
Done on Canson Pen & Ink paper, Zig Writer, Prisma colored pencils Text done with pointed nib and Sumi ink.

words: One should make one's life a mosaic. Let the general design be good, the colors lively, and the material diverse. Marthe Bibesco

Spiral - Not A Straight Line

I was in a quandary as what to next while playing with the gals recently... Then I started doing this spiral thing, found a quote to go with it and that's how it evolved...
size: 4.5" w x 6" h
Done on Canson Pen & Ink paper, Zig Writer, Prisma colored pencils. Text done in monoline lettering
words: The path isn't a straight line: it's a spiral. You continually come back to things you thought you understood and see deeper truths. Barry H Gillespie

Frilly Flower - Numinous

I was in a mood for a frilly word so goggled it and came up with this word... numinous... I now can't find where I found it and it seems it doesn't mean what I thought it did... PS the circle with a horizontal line under it is an "i". Since I can't change it... c'est la vie
size: 4.5" w x 6" h
Done on Canson Pen & Ink paper, Zig Writer, Juice Up pens & Prisma colored pencils, Unibal white gel pen. Text done in Mykolas Saulytis lettering
words: NUMINOUS awe inspiring