Abstract Doodle - Write Me Down In History

size: 4.5"w x 6"h
On Canson Mixed Media paper created the wavy line using a Premium Deco Color gold marker. Doodled with a ZIG Writer Then added the text with a Juice Up pen.
words: You may write me down in history with your bitter twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still like dust I'll rise. Mary Angelou

Curtains - Secret And Sighs

size: 6"h x 4.5"w
On Canson Black Drawing Paper using various metallic gel pens doodled the curtain design... added the text with a white Gelly Roll 10 pen.
words: ... and the very folds of the curtains contained SECRETS & SIGHS. Anais Nin

Gingerbread Letters - ECS - Sally Towers-Sybllis

I took a fun class with The Edmonton Calligraphy Society recently where Sally Towers-Sybllis taught us a funky lettering style - Gingerbread letters.

I did the exemplar in my Canson Mixed Media book using various medias - ZIG Writer for outlines and shadow, w/c to paint each letter in various shades of ochre/browns etc, then detailed with various gel and metallic pens, finally adding the blue colored shaded area with a Prisma Colored pencil. Love this style of lettering with all the doodling etc... right up my alley.

Then I created the card on Staples white 110#cardstock. trimmed down and punched the corners, adhered to the blue cardstock and then onto a brown card base.

words: Thinking of you

Art Of The Fold - Pop Up Card - From Me To You

The challenge for our next Art Of The Fold Group (Dec 2025) had us making this kind of structure. A bit challenging... I would make my tabs a little shorter.
 

size closed: 6"w x 7.5"h
The card base was made from a slightly textured 12 x 12 paper and the rest made with various brands of cardstock, the butterflies from gelli prints made on Columbia Mills LBS End paper.

Lettering on the front was done with DecoColor Premium gold pen and then shadow outlined with a ZIG Writer.

Ovals and butterflies punched out. and the inside lettering hand cut from another geli print paper..

Scribbled Lives - wk49 - Giving - Don't Just Think Do

 

wk 49 - Giving - Don't Just Think Do
Size: 4" x 6.5" (not incl pens)
On misc Black cardstock wrote out the words using the gold pen (DecoColor Premium) in my funky style the shadowed with a white gel pen (Uniball)
words: Don't Just think do...

Doodle - You Can't Stop The Waves

Just playing again...
size: 4.25"w x 6"h
On Canson Pen & Ink paper, w/c, Kuretake gold paint, metallic gel pen. Text written with a Zig Calligraphy marker (Baby Blue).
words: You can't stop the waves but you can learn to surf.

Blue Doodle Blobs - Splish Splash

Started drawing those weird shapes that remind me of blobs...
size: 4.25"w x 6"h
On Canson Pen and Ink paper, Zig Writer, Gelly Roll metallic pens and Kuretake gold paint. Funky monoline lettering
words: Splish Splash you make my heart sing.

Abstract Heart - One Beautiful Heart

I saw this heart online (I think on FB but forgot to jot it down...) and wanted to play with it... the heart shape is very similar but everything else is mine.
size: 6"h x 4.25"w
Done on Canson Pen & Ink paper using a Zig Writer and Juice up pens. Metallic gelly roll and Uniball pens for the dots.
words: One beautiful heart is better than a 1000 beautiful faces.

Scribbled Lives - Wk 8 - Nikki Giovanni - Nothing Easy

wk 8 - Nikki Giovanni - Nothing Easy
Size: 6"sq
On Black cardstock created the lettering (Art Nouveau style) and with a Uniball white Gel pen inked in the negative areas. With various colors of Gelly Roll metallic pens created the spacer boxes. Added the authors name and a more readable version of the quote for some...

Emotions Kills - Words

I came across this on Facebook (Wild Woman Sisterhood Dec 29/24)  and said I had to do something with it. Just noticed I left out "Jealousy kills peace" oh well maybe I'll do a re-do one day...
size: 7.5"w x 6.5"h
On Edge Mixed Media paper using a bunch of Gelly Roll metallic gel pens, a black Juice Up and a Uniball gold gel pen, wrote out my words. Colored the background with a Pentel Brush pen.

words: read the words front to back and then back to front...

Anger kills wisdom
Fear  kills dreams
Doubt kills confidence
Ego kills growth

Wk 3 - Emotions - Freedom

wk 3 - Emotion - Freedoms
Size: 8"w x 7.5"h
On Canson Marker paper wrote out the words with 2 sizes of Parallel pens (3.8 & 3.0) and a Juice Up pen in a funky style. Large pen with de'Atramentis Cyan Blue/Copper ink, smaller letters with a  Pilot black cartridge and a Juice up pen for the tiny letters...

words: Freedoms just another word for nothing left to lose. Kris Kristofferson

Doodle To Your Hearts Content

size: 5.5" sq
On black scrapbook cardstock drew out my circles design using every color of Gelly Roll metallic gel pens I have... (use 'm of loose 'm...). Then added the text around the design.
words: Doodle to your hearts content

Doodle Curves - Make Believe

Another doodling day with my friend.
size: 6" sq
On Edge Mixed Media paper using a Zig Writer created the swirly curls design adding red Gelly Roll Metallic gel dots.
Text in one of my funky styles using Holbien jet black Gouache
words: Make-believe colors the past with innocent distortion, and it swirls ahead of us in a thousand ways - in science, in politics, in every bold intention. Shirley Temple

Doodled Stars - Vincent van Gogh

Size: 8.5"sq
On Canson Mixed Media paper using a star template and fine tip Sharpie pen drew out the stars. Painted the background with Holbien "Peacock Blue". Doodled in the stars, then colored some of them with metallic Gelly Roll pens. (That white spot on my colored star is a dust spot on my scanner...ugh). Added a coating of Glossy Accents on the colored star.

Text written with a Zebra nib and Holbien black gouache.

words: for my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream. Vincent van Gogh

Doodled Leaves - The Falling Leaf

I like the result of these leaves...size: 5"w x 6.75"h
On Canson Mixed Media paper created the leaf design with a Sharpie Fine Tip pen. Painted with various brands of watercolors and Artistro metallic Brush Paint pens. Sponge some blue Pan Pastels in the background. Text written with a Zebra nib and Sumi ink. Backed the artwork onto mid toned green scrapbook cardstock.

words: The falling leaf that tells of autumn's death is, in a subtler sense a prophecy of spring. Robert Green Ingersoll

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

Scribbled Lives - wk 49 - New Year - New Beginnings

Size: 7"sq
On Edge Mixed Media using a Zig Writer and Juice Up pen for the outlining the lettering and coloring with metallic gel pens. Added the large dots with Stickles "Thistle" glitter

words: 2025 - New Beginnings

Doodled Ovals - No Abstract

I created the abstract design using ovals while playing with the gals.
size: 4.75"w x 5.75"h
Cut out a section to fit the quote into. Adhered the pieces to the blue cardstock and then wrote the quote using a Micron .02 pen in basic monoline.

words: There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. Pablo Picasso

Visigothic Knot - Life Is A

I came across something onLine by Risa Gettler and was inspired again...
size: 8"w x 7"h
On Edge Mixed Media paper drew my knotwork then doodled using Gelly Roll Metallic pens, Prisma colored pencils and Uniball white gel pen. Added a circle of Stickles Fine Glitter "Diamond". Text written with a brown Juice Up pen

words: Life is a series of dreams, a series of interlocking awareness. Frederick Lenz

Paisley Letters - B& L & L Colored

Paisley Letter L Colored
size: 4.5"w x 5.5"h
I'm taking a class - Paisley Letters with Cecelia Boschi through the Edmonton Calligraphy Society. Fun. This is from day 2.
The pics below are also day 2 and what we started with getting into the rhythm of the design process.  
On Strathmore Black Field Drawing paper created a template to make my oval shape and then created my design. Inked everything with a silver Juice Up pen then colored with Gelly Roll metallic gel pens (red, green, gold and silver)

Paisley Letter B & prototype L for the colored version.
size: B - 2.5"sq & L - 3"w x 4"h
On Genoa Bond calligraphy paper using a Juice Up pen ad a Zig Writer and  metallic Gelly Roll pens.