3D Liner - Joy - Choose Joy

size: 4.5"w x 7.5"h
On Canson Mixed Media paper lined the JOY letters using a new product to me... Stamperi Contour Black - needle nose tube. When dry adhered my paper to heavy cardstock so it wouldn't warp. Loaded the letters with water and dropped in Kuretake w/c #30 Cad Red, #43 Cad Yellow, #51 Light Green & #62 Turquoise Blue.
Wrote out the rest of the text with a Staedtler Calligraph Black 2.0 broad edge tip.
words: Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day. Henri Houwen

RW_ Uncial Class - Sept 27 & 28, 2025

Took an Uncial class (Sept 27 & 28, 2025) with Renate Worthington thru our Guild and enjoyed it thoroughly.
We did lots of techniques.

PS: as you can see from the bottom right image the word is a little weird... It's my inevitable mistake... I put the "R' in front of the "T" but continued with my word and still laugh...

Scribbled Lives - Wk 22 - Edward Johnson Quote

Scribbled Lives - wk 22 - Edward Johnson Quote
Size: 7"w x 6"h
On Canson Mixed Media paper using a 4.5 Parallel pen dipped into Holbein Gouache (Peacock Blue, Permanent Yellow, Flame Red) either in a single color or double dipping in Uncial style. When dry shadowed with a Zig Writer.
words: To make good letters and arrange them well. Edward Johnson

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

Stay Humble

size: 8"sq
On Edge Mixed Media paper using a Zig Writer and Black Edition colored pencils. created the title, and the balance of text with an empty 2.4 parallel pen and Sumi ink in Uncial style.

words: Stay humble, stay grounded, remember what got you to that level - and that's hard work. Tim Howard

Uncial - Abracadabra & ABCDE

 

 

On Canson Pro Marker paper was playing with the word "Abracadabra" in various size nibs (2.4 & 3.8) and then one in a different Ecoline ink for each letter...

 

The Alphabet This Is:  Using a yellow Ecoline ink and shadowed with a Zig Writer.

 

Funky Uncial, Yes, No

 

I'm taking a 2 day class with Barb Fuller (a BVCG Guild Member) in Uncials. It's one of my favorite hands... but does take up a lot of room especially since I don't like using small nibs...
On Canson Pro Marker paper.
The Uncial word was written with a 3.8 and a 2.4 empty Parallel pen using a crazy mix of Ecoline ink I had in a jar (the brownish color) and a reddish. Graphite shadowing.
The Yes and No  were also done with some crazy mixes... shadowed and doodled with a white or gold gel pen.

Uncial _ Yes 1 & Yes 2

  

I'm taking a 2 day class with Barb Fuller (a BVCG Guild Member) in Uncials. It's one of my favorite hands... but does take up a lot of room especially since I don't like using small nibs...

On Canson Pro Marker paper I used a Simply Simons #10 chisel brush (for both "Yes's") - which is a touch smaller than 1/2" and loaded it with water - one letter at a time. Dropped in Ecoline inks into the wetness. Blotted it a bit so it would dry faster...

Top Yes: shadowed on the right side with a Caran c'Ache B pencil and paper stump. Outlined on the left side with a medium toned blue Juice Up pen.

Bottom Yes: wrote the text with a black Juice Up pen and used a yellow colored pencil to shade around the words.
words: YES is a good word

Scribbled Lives - Wk 43 - Same Quote - Apparently

Size: 10.5"w x 8.5"h
On Canson Mixed Media paper penned my large letters in my Uncial style using I think a pen I got from Betty Locke loaded with a lot of water, sprayed Brusho Ost Red powder into the water, then sprinkled a bit of walnut crystals and then a bit of Neuberg Ebel gold powder (hard to see the gold in the image - sigh). When dry shadowed with a gold Unibal gel pen. Rest of quote written with a Juice up pen in Blue Rider Typeface.

words: Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today. Mark Twain

Wk 17 0 Vocabulary Oddities - OUGH

wk 17 - Vocabulary Oddities
Size: 8"w x 7"h
On Canson Pro Marker paper drew out the "OUGH" using a Juice Up pen and Posca colored pencils, burnishing with a Lyra Splendor Blender.
Wrote out the text with Sumi ink in a  pointed nib Uncial style.

words: "OUGH" can be pronounced in eight different ways.
A rough-coated, dough-faced ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough, coughing and hiccoughing thoughtfully.

Celtic - What Fills The Eye

I saw this kind of design and really liked it...
size: 7"sq
On Canson Mixed Media paper drew out the knot design, inked with Zig Writer and painted with Derwent Inktense w/c pencils and a wet brush.

Text written with a Speedball 2.5mm Elegant Writer in an Uncial style.

words: What fills the eye fills the heart.

Scribbled Lives Wk 42 - Word Link - Big & Bold

wk 42 - Word Link - Big And Bold
size: 5.5"sq
On Fabriano 1264 Mixed Media paper using Brusho powders (Grey & Ost Red), in Uncial style using a 6.0  & 2.4 Parallel pen dipped in water. When dry graphite shading and paper stump.

Scribbled Lives - Wk 41 - Autumn - Gentle Breezes

Wk 41 - Autumn - Gentle Breezes
Size: 8"w x 6.5"h
On Fabriano 1264 Mixed Media paper sprinkled with various colors of Bister w/c powders and with a2.4 empty Parallel pen dipped in water wrote out the quote in an Uncial style. When dry shadowed with a 2B graphite pencils and paper stump.

words: Gentle breezes blow
coloured hues of red and gold
cloak the waiting earth.
Mary Serenc

Celtic Triangle Knot - Bloom

I mentioned the other day I thought of another version for the triangle knot design... I had wanted to split the design to write text in between.

size: 6.5"w x 8"h

On Fabriano 1264 Mixed Media paper, Outlined the design with a fine tip Sharpie pen, painted with Gansai Tambi gold watercolor and the flowers with a pink and a touch of the gold. Added Sharpie dots in the large loops.

Wrote the text in an Uncial style

words: Don't just live - Bloom 

Celtic Knot Frame - Always Remember

Celtic Knot Frame - Always Remember. So I'm still practicing my knotwork... Not quite consistent enough, but with practice I hope I'll get all my lines the same thickness and the negative holes the same size... One day

The image above is progression of each element to see which I like the best.  The first is just too plain for me. I like the way the black shadow makes it stand out. It's hard to see the effect of the gray shadow, but I like that detail as well and can't have anything withoyt a touch of color...

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Loose Brush Florals - Good Day & Turn Your Face

  

Took a mini class with Peggy Dean the other evening, watercolor Loose Florals. Then I scribed some quotes on the artwork and then decided to make them into greeting cards. I like the way they turned out.

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Scribbled Lives 2023 - Wk 15 - Mother Earth - Gratitude

Scribbled Lives 2023 - Wk 15 - Mother Earth - Gratitude

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Meandering Booklet

I remember doing one of these a loooong time ago and then someone mentioned it... and I felt like creating another one. BIG GRIN

Click on image for more details etc including a diagram for cutting and folding one. Enjoy

Scribbled Lives 2023 - Wk 8 - Celtic - Cairdeas In Border- Shadowed

Scribbled Lives 2023 - Wk 8 - Celtic - Cairdeas In Border- Shadowed. Yesterday I created one of these borders that didn't quite turn out right... I pondered the problem and realized I had even number of patterns on each side... should have been one odd and one even. So this one is with the right number of patterns... But I'm still not happy since my line thickness is not even - sigh!! but I'm content for the moment and like the overall look.

PS the word means "friendship".

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Celtic Border - Slainte

My Guild BVCG had Nancy Hays Hills trying to teach us Celtic Knotwork... She made it look so easy and even with all her grid patterns that she kindly gave us I still made a mistake somewhere... I think on the bottom section. When I try running a continuous line through the pattern, it gets blocked at one point. Beats me where I went wrong...

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