Believe In The Beauty Of Color

I was watching Tamer Ghoneim on Summer Creative Retreat 2024 doing "Bubbly Blackletters" not so sure they were bubbly but I liked the look of them...
size: 5"sq   
Done on Canson Mixed Media paper using a 6.0 parallel pen and various brands of watercolors letting the colors merge/blend... When dry outlined with a Zig Writer and doodled with a Juice Up pen. Added graphite shading/paper stump.

words: Believe in the beauty of color

Scribbled Lives 2024 - Wk 27 - Same Quote - Joy Deneen

Size: 7"w x 9"h
On Canson Mixed Media paper. Sprinkled with Bister powders (yelow, red, blue, green) and using a 2.4 &  3.8 empty Parallel pens dipped in water wrote out the quote, cleaning my nib after every letter. On the larger letters shadowed with a black Juice Up pen.
words: Calligraphy is the ultimate synthesis of what love is: language, art and human connection. Joy Deneen

Scribbled Lives 2024 - Wk 5 - Universe - Albert Einstein

Size: 8"w x 7"h
On Canson Mixed Media paper sprinkled Brush powders (yellow, red & Ost blue). Used a 6.0 Parallel pen for the large word and 3.0 for the smaller letters. Shadowed the large word with a light blue Juice Up pen.

Words: Only two things are infinite the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. Alberta Einstein

Friends Are The Whipped Cream

I love reading and am going through an Amish series by Beth Wiseman and came across this quote in the book. I thought what a nice saying and so true.
size: 6"sq
On Canson Mixed media sprinkled Brusho powders (Yellow, Scarlet and Ost Blue). Large word with a 6.0 Parallel pen and smaller text with 3.0pen. Shadowed with a Caran d'Ache B pencil and paper stump.

Words: Friends are the whipped cream on the pie of life.

Scribbled Lives 2023 - Wk 43 - Day Of The Dead - Heart - George Eliot

wk 43 - Day Of The Dead - Heart - George Eliot

Size: 5" x 6"
On Fabriao 1264 Mixed Media paper created the heart shape to write in my Blackletter style text using a Marvy 2.0 broad edge calligraphy marker. Drew in the red line heart with a Juice U pen and then wet the inner area for a heart and sprinkled with Bister red powder, touching here and there and adding more water etc. Sprinkled with Neuberg-Ebel Sparkle Bronze 52 powder.

words: Our dead are not dead until we have forgotten them. George Eliot

Scribbled Lives 2023 - Wk 38 - HB Card - Rhett

This week on Scribbled Lives we were asked to create a Birthday card for a celebrity or famous person and use one of their 1 liner quotes... This immediately popped into my head... probably it's a truer sentiment for me... and since I'm taking a Cadell class with Vivian Mungall I thought I'd practice creating one of them...

On Fabriano 1264 Mixed Media paper sprinkling with Brush powders (Yellow, Scarlet and Ost Blue) created the Cadel "F" with a 2.4 Parallel pen dipped in water. The rest of the quote with a 2.5 Elegant Writer in a Blackletter style..

words: Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.

Scribbled Lives 2023 - Wk 29 - Advice

Scribbled Lives 2023 - Wk 29 - Calligraphy Advice

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Celtic Knot Frame - Bejeweled

We had another ZOOM knot session. I LOVED the one with the square holes... I said it would be great to add rhinestones... So I created one that had lots of those square areas... I'm pleased BIG GRIN

This was created on the smaller dot size grid I created which you can find on my website. Click on above image.

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TG Lettering Challenge - Wk 9 -"i"

TG Lettering Challenge - Wk 9 - "i" also done in a circle. It reminds me of one of those minty candies...

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Blackletter - Don't Tell Secrets

A bit of practice with Blackletter today... still not happy with the wonky verticals and some of my letter widths... And I tried it 2 more times... the one below is the 3rd time. still not happy...

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Blackletter - Thoughts Of You

Continuing practicing my Blackletter after Tamer Ghoneim's class held by LAGRD. I was in a mood to work with color and a chisel brush...

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Blackletter - Wine

After taking Tamer Ghoneim's Blackletter class held by LAGRD I thought I'd practice a bit today... A little humor sent to me by one of my gal friends...

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Tamer's BlackLetter Class - Day 2

I'm taking a ZOOM Blackletter class through the Lettering Arts Guild of  Red Deer with Tamer Ghoneim.

This week we finished the Minuscule and started on a few of the Majuscules. Our homework this week was to write out a pangram 5 times. I have a very very hard time repeating things. I get bored very quickly and loose focus... Just look at my last line and the "q" in "liquor"... that's a real drunken "q"... So I stopped writing after 4 repeats, even with letter variations in each line. sigh!!

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Scribbled Lives 2022 - Wk 30 - Motto - Strong & Free

This week's challenge is our country/state/province etc motto. I chose to use my province's motto rather than my country with the Rocky Mountains as a background. Ad I choose a strong/bold lettering style

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Slip Knot Binding - Quote Me

I've been making more of the slip knot bound booklets. They are really addictive. This one holds one of quotes for my Scribbled Lives challenges.

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The Elegant Earth Envelope Contest - 2022

The Elegant Earth Envelope Contest - 2022. I created 2 envelopes with things I learned recently from both Pat Blair and Gemma Black. Now I keep my fingers crossed...

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Triangle Brush Ginkgo & Hollyhocks

Again I felt like playing with my Rosemary & co triangle brushes... Ginkgo leaves and Hollyhocks...

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Scribbled Lives 2022 -Wk 2 - Lettering Maker - Change Ain't Easy

Scribbled Lives 2022 -Wk 2 - Lettering Maker - Change Ain't Easy. Apparently there's a website creating a brief's to get a person writing... "LetteringMaker.com" This is my attempt at the choices...

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Valentine ATC's in a Circle 2022

For Julie Wildman's ATC exchange - deadline January 15, 2022 I decided to go with Valentine's Day... This 1st batch of 5 are done in a circle with some sort of flower in the centers... Don't ask what kind...

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BVCG Nov 2021 Lettering Challenge Day 25 -30

BVCG Nov 2021 Lettering Challenge Day 25 -30 - And another month goes by. They went way too quickly... This time I did a kind of exemplar of more traditional lettering styles...

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