Circle Doodle - Love Requires

I was playing with my circle scissor gadget just drawing circles... and this evolved
size: 7"h x 6"w
On Edge Mixed Media paper colored with various brands of metallic gel pens and ZIG Clean Color markers.
words: Never let anyone convince you that love requires you to disappear.

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

Abstract Doodled Circle - Start To Be Great

size: 5" sq
On Genoa Bond Calligraphy paper drew out my circle and doodled with more circles. Colored with Prisma colored pencils (905,906,912,917,918,922). Added text around the circle in funky monoline.
words: You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great. Zig Ziglar

Circles - Spirals - A Positive Perspective

size: 4.5"sq
On Canson Mixed Media paper created the circles, adding the design in the center, then the gold border, the lettering, gold border and outside circle using Prisma colored pencils, Juice Up pen for the lettering and Kuretake gold paint.
words: Stress is a downward spiral, and you can only overcome it with a positive perspective. Jen Lilley

BVCG Env Exc - Laurie Broadhurst - Nov 2025

ID: Laurie Bradhurst (Nov 2025)
Env created on Canson Mixed Media paper. Drew out some circles and with a broad edge red ZIG Calligraphy pen wrote out Laurie's name. Painted with Kuretake Yellow Gold paint between the letters. Added "Laurie with a black ZIG Writer. Edged a border on the envie with the same gold

The card is a funky center fold. Wrote out the AUTUMN word with various colors of the Calligraphy markers. The "vibes" word doodled with a black ZIG Writer. The leaf created with various scraps of paper glued to another sheet and die cut with Tim's "Layered Leaf" Sizzix Bigs die.

Circle Border - Silence Of Thought

I was playing with this circle border...
size: 5.5"sq
On Canson Mixed Media paper drew out several sized circles and spaced diagonal lines through the center to create this design... and even with that I still got some sections a little wonky...colored with Prisma colored pencils, then added the gem in the center.
Words written with a pink toned metallic gel pen and then shadowed with a black Juice Up pen.
words: Painting is the silence of thought and the music of sight. Orhan Pamuk

Letters As Art - Day 2 - Let Me - Take 2

The last piece I did in Lorraine Douglas's class

size: 6"sq
Done on Canson Pen & Ink paper.
Drew circles 3/4" apart, starting with approx a 1.25" circle and the last one 6". Then drew a line from one to the next to merge them for the text. Painted with 3 colors of watercolors (Grumacher Gambouge Hue; Thalo Blue; &  w/n Permanent Rose.

words: Let me, O let me bathe my soul in colours, let me swallow the sunset and drink the rainbow. Khalil Gibran

Floral Circle - Faith Is The Substance

size: 6"sq
On a linen textured cardstock drew a circle and designed the floral arrangement. Used 22.75k gold leaf for the leaves and inscribed the vein with a small balled stylus. Painted with Derwent Inktense watercolor pencils.
words: faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen

Wes Wilson - If It's Not Your

This was our final day and while Amity was demoing... I was creating...

size: 5"sq
On Bee Super Deluxe paper drew my circle and painted inside with 3 waves of color blending where they overlapped. Then painted around the circle with Winsor Blue (red). Drew my Wes Wilson inner text in a spiral layout and painted the negative areas with a ZIG Writer and Sharpie... Wrote the outer text with a pointed nib and Bleed Proof white ink.
Since this style is hard to read for many people, I wrote it in monoline around the circle... I shortened the quote by not using the words "if it' in the 3rd sentence and "if you"in the last sentence.

words: If it's not yours, don't take it. If it's not right, don't do it. Not true, don't say it. Don't know, shut up. Japanese wisdom 

Celtic Circle Border - May You Live

I've been meaning to create a Celtic circle for a while now... and finally created a template to use. I love the way this design came out.

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Calligraphy In Circles - Flowers & A Single Rose

Calligraphy In Circles - Flowers & A Single Rose. I was playing with the gals again and was in a funk... so started doodling flowers, liked what was happening and created a circle with them and then added the calligraphy and then went on do do the 2nd piece...

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Workshop Week 2023 - Mandala - The Center

I signed up for the Workshop Week 2023 hosted by The Happy Ever Crafter on ZOOM. This artwork was taught by Farah Brightart - Mandala

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TG Alphabet Challenge 2023 - wk 19 - s

TG Alphabet Challenge 2023 - wk 19 - s

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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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TG Lettering Challenge - Wk 7 & 8 - hg

For this week's TG Lettering challenge I decided to combine 2 letters together since they're my initials... BIG GRIN done in a basic Blackletter style in a circle.

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Circle Art - Sarcasm

After Rachel Yallop's class this weekend, I've been playing with circles again... This time I wanted to do sarcasm. This piece is I think my 5th version trying to get a smooth transition for the longer saying (the one in red). I'm still not perfectly happy. Don't like the close ending of the black words... I might try it one more time in the future... Ha Ha

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Rachel Yallop Class - Circles & Squares

What a wonderful class taught by Rachel Yallop, hosted by my Guild (BVCG) to work within circles and squares. These are pieces I created while she was teaching...

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BVCG - Words In Circle

My Guild put out a challenge to write one of the words or all the words given or do whatever with them... Rachel Yallop will be teaching us on Jan 20th to work with circles and stuff. It's been a while since I've done anything with circles so I thought I'd played... I like the way it turned out.

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Scribbled Lives 2022 - Wk 41 - Folk Music - Blowin In The Wind

I've always loved this song... so it was the first thought in my head... not that my head holds a lot... and I haven't done anything in a circle in quite a while... this one isn't a spiral but just circles upon circles. A little different from my "usual".

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Scribbled Lives 2022 - April - Wk 15 - Dazzle Of Day - Enough now of the Wet Eyes

Scribbled Lives 2022 - April - Wk 15 - Dazzle Of Day - Enough now of the Wet Eyes.

Since I'm continuing with practicing my Italic... that's the hand I chose to write the quote and since I just took a class with Tamer Ghoniem "Circles On Steroids" hosted by BVCG, I decided to do this portion of the poem in circles... I extremely pleased with the way it turned out and I think my Italic is really improving...

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