Painted Leaves - Grand Tapestry

size: 8"w x 9"h
On Canson Mixed Media paper  using Derwent Intense watercolor pencils painted the leaves.
Text written in a monoline style using 2 shades of Gouache and pointed nib.
words: In the grand tapestry of life, season unfurl like chapters, each one bearing its unique hues, moods, and lessons.

Books - Coffee - Macaron - Treasure Island

Came across this book image in my Pinterest feed and just felt like playing with it. Put titles on the books and a mochaccino in the cup...
Size:  5"w x 6.5"h
Done on Canson Mixed Media Paper outlined with a Sharpie pen and painted with Derwent Inktense pencils and a touch of gold from Gansai Tambi set. Juice Up pen for the serif monoline lettering

words: There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island. Walt Disney

Leafy Floral Border - Go With The Flow

I was doodling outside a la Helen Williams.
size: 8"w x 6"h
Done on Canson Pro Marker paper. Colored with Posca colored pencils. Text written with a blend of watercolors (Holbein Permanent Green #1 & Grumbacher Burnt Umber) and pointed pen with a Zebra nib in an altered Weaver style writing.

words: Go with the flow. Force nothing. let it happen. or not happen. trusting that which ever way it goes, it's for the best. Mandi Hale

Doodled Leaves - Learn Character

I was playing outside again (still very very hot in Calgary...) 

size: 6"w x 6.5"h 

Doodled these leaves on Canson Mixed Media paper using a Zig Writer and then coloring with Derwent Inkteness w/c pencils, then decided to add some text... using a green Zig Writer in a script style hand.
words: learn character from trees, values from roots and change from leaves. Tasheern Harneed

Scribbled Lives 2024 - Wk 29 - Rumi - Be Still

I just got the latest VCG Newsletter with the cover using these funky letters by Judy Black and had to use them...
Size: 6.5"w x 8"h
On Canson Mixed Media paper drew out the funky letters using a Sharpie pen and colored with Derwent Inktense watercolor pencils and lots of water...
words: Sit, be still, and listen. Rumi

Curly flowers - Pink & Blue

I'm going thru my books by Helen William which I purchased eons ago. I loved her doodling and drawing skills... (and then 1 day she was gone... no idea what happened to her).

I love this curly flower (can't think of what it reminds me of...)
size: 6"sq each
On Staples 110# cardstock both outline with Juice Up pen

The pink above painted with Derwent Inktense watercolors.

The blue below painted with Peerless w/c's, added white gel highlights...

 

BVCG Env Exchange - July 2024 - Donna Uncles

Donna Uncles (July 2024)
Env created from Arches Text Wove and lettered with a Juice Up pen in a funky style, painted with Peerless watercolors and a bit of cross hatching.

The doodling is something I saw in a book by Helen Williams (Design To Detail). Leaves painted with Derwent Inktense watercolor pencils. 

The card was made during a Pat Blair floral ZOOM class

ALPHABET-ically Speaking - Victor Hugo

I'm sitting outside on this glorious sunny day and had no direction of which direction to go artistically... so I started drawing a big funky "A" and the rest evolved... on thought after another...
size: 7"w x 6"h
On Canson Pro Marker paper using just about everything I had on my table outside... Juice Up pens, Regular and Metallic Gel pens., Posca Colored pencils. Derwent Inktense, W&N & Peerless watercolors... wrote out the big letters. The I just had to put a big shadow line. When done it needed something else and the "ically speaking..." popped into my head. Then of course I needed a quote to go with it and Victor's was just right...
words: Human society, the world, and the whole of mankind is to be found in the alphabet. Victor Hugo

Painted Daisy - Thread Lightly

I'm going thru my books by Helen William which I purchased eons ago. I loved her doodling and drawing skills... (and then 1 day she was gone... no idea what happened to her).
I love this daisy... and of course had to put words to it...
Size: 5.25"w x 4"h
On Staples 110# cardstock outlined the flower with Juice Up pen and painted using Derwent Inktense watercolor pencils.
Quote done with the Juice Up pen in an Art Nouveau style.
words: Thread lightly, she is near. Under the snow, speak gently, she can hear. The daisies grow. Oscar Wilde

Penny Black - Tulips In Cup - Good Day

I LOVE Penny Black floral stamps but I don't rubber stamp anymore... and I keep meaning to draw/paint them... so this one came into my Instagram feed and caught me at the right moment... I pulled out my Canal w/c Paper and drew out the design. I didn't ink over the lines this time (a rarity for me) but I think it turned out pretty good.
Size card: 5"w x 7"h
I used both Peerless watercolors and Derwent Inktense w/c pencils, and various colors of Juice up pen for the little details.
The words were perfect too so did them in an Art Deco style with a Juice Up pen.
words. Today is a good day to have a good day

Doodled Leaf - WC - Tagore

Again I saw something in my Pinterest Feed done by Helen Williams. I loved her work and then all of a sudden she was gone. Sad. I loved her pen/ink and doodling style.
I'm pleased with the way mine turned out even if the greens didn't show up as intense or bright enough...
size: 10"w x 9"h
On Canal Paper Montreal - St Armand drew out the leafy swirl and doodles with a Juice Up pen and colored with Derwent Inktense w/c pencils. Added Finetec various gold paints and  graphite shadow.
Text done with a Zebra pointed pen nib and Sumi ink.

words: Let your life lightly dance on the edge of time like dew on the tip of a leaf. Rabindranath Tagore

Multi Circle - Circle Quotes

Every once in a while this calligrapher pops in with beautiful circular art/words of blended letters with circles into my Instagram feed. I can't remember his name. But I thought I'd try something similar and this is a WAAAYS different than his... sigh!!
size: 5"sq
On Strathmore 140# w/c paper, using the smoother side very lightly penciled in my circles (2/10" increments). Painted with Derwent Inktense w/c pencils and a wet paintbrush. When dry wrote in the various quotes using Juice Up pens in colors similar to my painted circles. Put a flower to fill the empty center circle.

Words: A boomerang returns back to the person who throws it, but first, while moving in a circle, it hits its target. So does gossip. Vera Nazarain

Life is a full circle widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite. Anais Nin

There are patterns which emerge in ones life circling and returning anew. an endless variation of a theme. Jacqueline Carey

The more we love the more we lose. The more we lose the more we learn. The more we learn the more we love. It comes full circle.  Life is the school, love is the lesson. We cannot lose.Kate McGhan

We are all joined in a circle of stories. Linda Joy Myers

Geometry - a small circle of people put the whole world on the line. Ljupka Cvetanova

When your circle of compassion embraces the entire world then you will find enlightenment. Laurence Overmire

Time is really a circle. I can see that now. We are trapped between a past we can't return to and a future that is uncertain. Kate Bowler

Start your own circle. Richie Norton

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.

Wk 6 - Wes Wilson - Alphabet Border - If Plan "A"

I'm taking a class with Amity Parks and thought I'd practice what I'm learning...
Size: 7"sq
On Canson Mixed Media paper using an Orbis Circle Scissor drew out my large outer circle, then created the wavy line. Painted the interior of the lettering band with Derwent Inktense w/c pencils and a wet paintbrush. Inked the black areas with a Zig Writer.
Inner text with a Juice Up pen.

words: If plan "A" doesn't work the alphabet has 25 more letters, 204 if you're in Japan. Claire Cook

Celtic U

I went in a very graphic style..
Size: 4.5"w x 5"h
On Fabriano 1264 Mixed Media paper outlined the letter with a Zig Writer. Painted, bended with Derwent Inktense w/c pencils and water. The knot work with Gansai Tambi "Champagne Gold". Graphite shadowing.

Celtic Q Doodled

After creating the Celtic design yesterday, I thought if I rounded the edges it would make a great "Q" for my Celtic Alphabet... Only 8 more letters to go...

Size: 4.5"w x 4.25"h
On Canson Mixed Media paper  outlined with a Zig Writer. Painted the strands with Derwent Inktense w/c pencils. Doodled in some areas.

Doodled Celtic Knot Square

size: 4"sq
I was looking through my Celtic stuff and decided to repeat this pattern with doodling.
On Canson Mixed Media paper drew out the knot design, added the doodling and colored with Derwent Inktense w/c pencils. Added some white gel pen highlights. Added Glossy Accents to the white swirls & Nuvo Crystal Glaze to the blue dots

Checkerboard Happy Valentine

Size: 5"w x 6.5"h
On Fabriano Mixed Media paper created the checkerboard pattern . Inked with a Zig Writer, painted with a red Derwent Inktense w/c pencil and wet paintbrush. added the gold with Gansai Tambi paint. Added the dots with a Signo Unibll gold gel pen. Trimmed down and adhered to a gold pearlescent card base.

Inside Curve Exemplar - Yogi

A wonderful class with Heidi Stolp and the Valley Calligraphy Guild
size: 8.5"w x 6"h
In my Bee Super Deluxe Sketch Book using a Zig Writer for the exemplar and a Sharpie fine point for my name. Painted my name with Derwent Inktense wc pencils and some water.

Doodling Segmented Design

Playing with the gals and just doodling...

Size: 3.5"sq
Fabriano 1264 Mixed Media paper, Juice Up pen, Derwent Inktense w/c pencils and a wet paintbrush.
Used my EK Success  Scissor to draw circles at 93,72 & 63. Split my circle into 8 equal segments and drew my lines from the intersections of circle. Colored 4 of the sections and then doodled in all of them... Added a thicker border along one edge.