Doodled Bow - Present Under This Bow

 

I had drawn this bow and never got around to coloring it...
size: 8"h x 7"w
On Edge Mixed Media paper doodled and painted with various brands of w/c paints.
Doodled funky text.
words: Is there a present under this bow.

Whirlpool Of Imagination Booklet

size: 2"w x 3"h x .25"thk (opens to 18")
On Genoa Bond calligraphy paper folded a single sheet (approx 8" x 12"), slitting the folds to create the one sheet booklet.
Doodled with a gold gel pen to create the swirl design adding graphite shading leaving space to add my text.
Text with a black ZIG Writer.
Adhered to heavy cardstock covering with one of my geli prints and adding the belt for closure.
words: Artistic creativity is a whirlpool of imagination that swirls in the depths of the mind. Robert Toth

Floral - Moonlight Gel Pens - On Black

And the last piece I created a while ago and came across while looking for something else...
size: 4"h x 5"w
On black paper (unknown brand...) I started playing with all the Moonlight Gel pens in my set.
words: Moon Light Gel Pens

On Black - Long Orbit - Shine Again

Another piece created a while ago and came across while looking for something else...
size: 4.25"h x 5.5"w
On black paper (unknown brand...) created the orbs and painted with US Art Quest Mica Color Metallic set, then outlined the orbs with a white gel pen. Text written with a Juice Up pen.
words: Maybe I'm not lost. Maybe I'm just on a long orbit like a comet taking the time I need before I shine again.

WC - Don't Make Waves

size: 6"h x 5.5"w
I created this a while ago and came across it while looking for something else... story of my life...
I was experimenting with Stamperia Contour Black to make the wavy lines and text on w/c paper then painted with various brands of w/c.
words: Don't Make Waves

Zing Booklet

size: 12.5"w x 4.5"h x .25"thk
I had this scrap end of some Canson Mixed Media Sketch paper and wrote in the words, coloring with ZIG Clean Color markers. I then decided to fold it into a booklet... each section is 1.5"w. Then I decided it need hard covers, doubled a scrap piece of Staples 110# cardstock for the covers. I had left over piece of geli print and glued it to the back and front of each cover. I really like the results...

words: Zing you make my heart sing! 

Doodle Blocks - A Life Is Built

 

size: 6"h x 4.5"w
On Canson Mixed Media Sketchbook paper created the squares and all the wavy lines, then created the cross hatching with a ZIG Writer and colored with Prisma colored pencils..
words: Block By Block A Life is Built

Doodle ABC - Alphabet Soup

size: 6"h x 4.5"w
On Canson Mixed Media Sketchbook paper created the overlapping wavy lines, doodled in some, colored in others using ZIG Clean Color markers. Added the alphabet letters using the pointed end of the ZIG Writer and added a gold gel pen line.
words: Alphabet Soup

Let Go - Tag Booklet

size: 6"w x 3"h x .25"thk
I was cleaning out a section in my art room (like I do all the time and never get anywhere...) but came across a bunch of tags I had painted eons ago... So decided to finish it. Added funky lettered/doodled words about letting go.

Used various media, w/c, gel pens, ZIG Writer.

Let Go; It Is what it is; Let it be; tomorrow is another day; do what you can & let the rest rest; mind over matter.

Doodle - When The Mind Lets Loose

size: 5.5"h x 4.5"w
On Canson XL Marker paper created the doodle design using ZIG Clean Color markers. Added the first thing that came into my mind for the text...
words: When the mind lets loose

Vase of Flowers - Hello My Friend

size: 7"h x 4.75"
On Canson XL Marker paper created the vase of flowers then added the large words "Hello My Friend" and then the lyrics kept running thru my head... so had to write them down...
Used ZIG Clean Color markers for the artwork and a Blue ZIG Writer for the text
words: Hello My Friend I've come to talk to you again, because a vision softly creeping left its seed while I was sleeping and the vision that was planted in my brain still remains within the sounds of silence. Simon and Garfunkel

Art Of The Fold - Nine Emotions Booklet

Our AofF for September is anything we want...
I came across this blank booklet I made eons ago and decided to finish it...

I covered the  pages with 3 different geli prints I had recently made (a purple-y pink, a bluish and a greenish. I kept the backsides white for my text. Used a 1.5 black ZIG Calligraphy pen for the text in one of my funky styles....

Quotes on the back of each page done with a Juice Up pen in a basic monoline.

Derwent Challenge - Day 1 - 7

size: each approx 6" x 4.5"
On Canson Biggie Jr watercolor paper drew out my designs with a black waterproof marker and colored with both Derwent w/c pencils and Inktense pencils, using a different lettering style for each.
They are in order of the challenge except for "Spring Wardrobe which should be in 3rd spot after "Day Trip".
words: Blossoming Trees; Day Trip;  Rose Lemonade; Evening Glow; Dancing Butterflies; Summer Picnic, Spring Wardrobe.

Blossoming Trees: I320, 0210, 1510

Day Trip: I06, I14, I20, 0260, 1530, 1920

Spring Wardrobe: 15, 17, 33, 46

Rose Lemonade: I21, 15, 17

Evening Glow: 0210, 0250, 0410, 0850

Dancing Butterflies: I12, I20, 15, 21, 0220

Summer Picnic: I02, I03, I09, I14, I16, I17, 0210, 0250, 0320, 0410, 0820, 1330, 1540, 1550, 1560.

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Abstract Doodle - Don't Think Just Do

size: 6"h x 4.5"w
On Canson Mixed Media paper drew the abstract design using a Juice Upand a ZIG Writer, colored with Prisma colored pencils.
Funky lettering for the text.
words: Don't think just do...

Doodled Flower - A Single Flower

size: 6"w x 4.5"h
On Canson Mixed Media paper drew the flower outline than started doodling inside and used a ZIG Clean Color marker for the leaves and a couple petals.
Funky lettering for the text.
words: a single flower can make me smile

Caterpillar Books from the past...

I've made at least 8 Caterpillar books in the past (around 2009/2010) that I can find images of... Several were sold a looong time ago. I still have a couple on my shelf...

 

 

   

                                   
 

                                      

Abstract Doodle - Drawing - Edgar Degas

I just started drawing lines and patterns and this emerged...
size: 5"sq
On Genoa Bond calligraphy paper drew the curvy lines with a ZIG Writer. Used Prisma colored pencils in earth tones in a gradation style then doodled in a bunch of the spaces. Added the text in my hand writing... (a lot to be desired...)
words: Drawing is the artist's most direct and spontaneous expression, a species of writing: it reveals better than does painting his true personality. Edgar Degas

Nothing Left To Lose

This song was going round in my head...
size: 7"w x 3.5"h
On Canson 120# w/c paper created the large word using 4 different pens for the main word - Sharpie Metallic Gold, Black& Red ZIG Writer, Deco Color Premium gold. The rest with just the brown ZIG
words: Nothing Left To Lose

Let There Be Peace

I saw something done on_line and decided to pull out my w/c pencils and create one too...
6.5"w x 3.5"h

On Canson cp watercolor paper created my main word using Faber Castell - Albert Dürer w/c pencils (Emerald Green 163, Earth Green Yellowish 168, Light Green 171) and a wet brush, and the smaller words with a green ZIG Writer.

Doodling - Live Love Laugh

size: 6.5"w x 6"h
On Canson Mixed Media paper wrote out the words in a bold monoline using the fat end of a ZIG Writer. Surrounded the letters with squares/rectangles, hearts, circles and doodled within them. Painted with w/c. The drew the wavy lines around everything.
words: Live Love Laugh

Freedom Booklet

I was cleaning out a bunch of stuff... and found a bunch of black cardstock, folded in half with a window on one side... so I glued them together to create the booklet, adhering the letters to spell "FREEDOM'S"

Adhered a piece of crackle scrapbook paper to the left side and wrote a word under the window, one each page from the lyrics. (LOVE this song...)

words: Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose. Kris Kristofferson

Doodled Blobs - Blobby Blobs

size: 6"w x 4.5"h
On Canson Mixed Media paper created my Blobs using a ZIG Writer, painted with w/c and some metallic gold paint. Added the words coloring with a NoBlot Ink Pencil then wet the area to spread the color.
words: Blobby Blobs

Abstract Doodle - Patterns Emerge

size: 6"w x 4.5"h
On Canson Mixed Media paper created my doodles using a ZIG Writer, then in the open central space wrote in my words and painted the background with a red w/c...

words: Patterns Emerge

Floral Border - Be Always Truthful

size: 6"w x 4.5"h
On Canson Mixed Media paper wrote out the quote then added the floral design using a ZIG Writer and w/c. Not often I do script writing...
words: Be always truthful to yourself...

Circle Doodle - When U Don't Know

size: 6"h x 4.5"w
On Canson Mixed Media paper drew the abstract circle design and colored with Prisma colored pencils. Text written with a ZIG Writer
words: When U Don't Know What To Do

Funky BFly - Butterfly Fantasy

size: 6"w x 4.5"h
On Canson Mixed Media paper drew the funky butterfly and painted with US ArtQuest Mica Metallic set. Text in a script style with a pointed pen.
words: Butterfly Fantasy

Tea Cups Earl Grey - Tea For Two

size: 6"w x 4.5"h
On Canson Mixed Media paper drew the funky tea cups and painted US ArtQuest "Stargazer" set. Drew out the funky letters for "Tea For Two" and doodled in them.
words: Tea For Two

wc Waterlily

size: 6"w x 4.5"h
On Canson Mixed Media paper drew the waterlily and painted with various brands of w/c. Text painted with US ArtQuest Meteor Copper.
words: Waterlily

Circle Line Doodle - Between The Lines

size: 6.5"w x 4"h
On Canson Mixed Media paper drew the lines and circles with a ZIG Writer. Doodled and painted with various brands of w/c. Text painted with US ArtQuest Nebula Green.
words: Between The Lines...

Floral Center Circles - Abstraction

size: 4.5"w x 6"h
On Canson Mixed Media paper drew the circles with my Orbis Circle Scissor with a Sanford NoBlot Ink pencil (love the blue it turns in to when wet). Wet each circle line slightly and some completely... Added a deeper blue w/c for behind the flower. Text written with a dark blue Juice Up pen. Added some exterior lines.
words: Almost without exception, blue refers to the domain of abstraction and immateriality. Wassily Kandinsky

Bubbles _ Enthusiasm Just Create

size: 6.5"w x 5"h
On Canson Mixed Media paper drew the overlapping circles, added the words. Painted with various brands of watercolors (the colors don't show up very well especially the pink and gold...)
words: Enthusiasm just creates bubbles: It doesn't keep them from popping. Adora Svitak