Grid Flowers - Contemplation

size: 4.5"w x 6"h
On Canson Mixed Media paper created the grid pattern and shadowed with a 2B pencil and paper stump. Added the flower design with metallic paint and watercolors. Text with a ZIG Writer and then lines with a Juice Up pen.
words: Contemplation

Abstract Letters - Audacity

size: 4.5"w x 6"h
On Canson Mixed Media paper created the abstract letters for "AUDACITY" and painted with various brands of watercolors. Added shadowing and the linear pattern in the "A". Text with a Juice Up pen.
words: AUDACITY a confident and daring quality, often showing a shocking, rude, or disrespectval disregard for normal rules.
(don't know where I came up with that "Disrespectval" word... but it makes sense to me...)

Fall Leaves - Autumn Wins You Best

size: 4.5"w x 6"h
On Canson Mixed Media paper created the leafy design and painted with various w/c. Text in funky lettering with  ZIG Writer

words: Autumn wins you best by this it's mute appeal to sympathy for it's decay. Robert Browning

Abstract Flowers - When Time Is Right

size: 4.5"w x 6"h

On Canson Mixed Media paper created the funky floral design and painted with various w/c. Text in funky lettering

words: Minds are like flowers; they open only when the time is right. Stephen Richards

Floral - Every Word Count

size: 4.5"w x 6"h

On Canson Mixed Media paper created the floral design and painted with various w/c. Text in funky lettering with  ZIG Writer

words: Make Every Word Count

Sand & Sea Booklet

Size closed: 6"w x 4.5"h x 1/8"thk

I had this gorgeous strip of a geli print I had laying in my stash and decided to use it... I added a piece of an orangey cardstock for stability and then Genoa bond calligraphy paper. Sewed it with a three hole basic binding with a turquoise waxed linen thread and added some beads.
Love the way it turned out. I've already put a drawing into it while sitting outside under my umbrella.

Black White - Exclamation

size: 4.5"w x 6"h
On Canson Mixed Media paper drew vertical and horizontal lines and then rounded the square edges to create a rocky look... Added the title letters
words: Exclamation.

Doodle - Brain In A Fog

size: 4.5"w x 6"h
On Canson Mixed Media paper created the abstract design using the thick end of a black ZIG Writer. Painted with various w/c. Doodled in some sections with various metallic gel pens. Added the text.
words: When your brain is in a fog wing it!

Leaves - Autumn Is Here

size: 4.5"w x 6"h
On Canson Mixed Media paper created the leafy design adding the text and then erasing the unwanted lines... created line work in some of the leaves and the rest painted with various brands of w/c. Used a copper Signo Unibal gel pen to color some of the negative spaces in the words.
words: Autumn is here the leaves are falling

Abstract Line Bkgr'd - Life's Joys

size: 4.5"sq
On Canson Mixed Media paper drew out the linear bkgr'd, painted with various w/c and doodled in others adding graphite shadowing. Used metallic copper paint for the text.
words: Life's Joys

Block Doodle - No Words To Express

size: 6"sq
On Canson Mixed Media paper drew out the lines to create funky blocks. Doodled in some, added 3 flowers and painted the rest. Added the text with a Juice Up pen.
words: No words to express my feelings

Circle Doodle - Stay A While

size: 3.75"w x 6"h
Another style of funky letters
On Canson Mixed Media paper drew out the words and circles with a ZIG Writer and colored with watercolors and Mica and metallic w/c paints.
words: Stay a while and play with me.

Abstract Doodle - Another Sunny Day

size: 5.5"w x 6.5"h
On Edge Mixed Media paper created the abstract design with the bullet tip of a ZIG Writer, colored with Prisma colored pencils, doodled in some of the spaces and added the text.  
words: Another Sunny Day

Doodle - Mish Mash Joy

size: 5"w x 7"h
On Canal Paper Montreal created this second abstract design inspired by Suraj Fine Arts on Facebook. Bold tip of a ZIG Writer for the outline, watercolors, a touch of doodling and monoline lettering
words: Mish Mash Joy

Abstract - Love Swiss Cheese

size: 4.5"w x 6"h
On Canson Mixed Media paper drew out the wavy lines and then drew circles between them and it reminded me of Swiss Cheese...then added the lettering. Painted with various blues and a greenish yellow. Added graphite shading in the ball shapes.
words: I love Swiss cheese

Floral Border - End Of The Road

size: 4.5"w x 6"h
On Canson Mixed Media paper drew out the floral border and painted with various w/c media including Mica paint. Added the text with a point nib in my script style.
words: when you get to the end of the road, what do you do?

Foral Doodle - Fantasy World

Size: 6"w x 4.5"h

On Canson Mixed Media paper using a ZIG Writer, started with that 3 petal central flower, adding inner petals. Then worked my way to the edge of the paper. Painted with various brands of watercolor in yellows and oranges and the outer petals with greens. Drew the words Fantasy World and painted with a gold Mica paint.

Floral Doodle - Start - Where You Are

size: 6"w x 4.5"h
On Canson Mixed Media paper using various brands of w/c created the border with those blobby globs... (love them) then created the frame work.
Saw a funky style of lettering on Instagram by (Daniel Markides July 14/26) and had to use it...
words: Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.

Doodle - Circles Alphabet Florals

size: 6"h x 4.5"
On Canson Mixed Media paper created a whole pile of circles and then added the flowers in the larger ones. Painted with w/c and details with a ZIG Writer. Then looked at all the smaller circles and when counted realized I had enough for an alphabet...size: 6"h x 4.5"

Doodle - Yes No Maybe OK

One of those bored days so just doodled...
size: 6"w x 4.5"h
On Canson Mixed Media paper drew out a bunch of wavy lines again, painted some and doodled in others. (as usual the color is of... Pink is bright pink and yellow is not s orangey). Added the words with a black ZIG Writer

words: Yes No Maybe OK