Funky Lettering with Christine Ahmad - Day 2 - Happiness Held

Happiness Held
size: 6"w x 5"h
On Black/Black paper drew out my word and colored with Yasutomo metallic paints, outlined with Uniball white gel pen. Added the lettering with a white Juice Up pen.
words: Happiness held is the seed. Happiness shared is the flower. Harrigan

Funky Lettering with Christine Ahmad - Day 1 - Auric

ID: Auric - Relating to Gold
size: 6"w x 4.5"h
On Canson Mixed Media paper drew out my word and painted with Gansai Tambi gold paints. Regular w/c for the stones.
words: Auric relating to gold

Funky Lettering with Christine Ahmad - Day 1 - Just Because

ID: Just Because I Care
size: 6"w x 4.5"h
On Canson Mixed Media paper drew out my words and painted with w/c and a bit of doodling. Gold border with Gansai Tambi gold paint and a funky border
words: Just because I care

Floral - Flowers Are Proud

size: 4.25" w x 6" h
On Canson Mixed Media paper, created the floral design, painted with various brands of w/c and Gansai Tambi gold paint. Text with a Zig Calligraphy marker (2.0 end)
words: Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out values all the utilities in the world. Ralph Waldo Emerson

4 Petal Flowers - Why Should I Be Happy

size: 6"w x 4.25"h
On Canson Pen &Ink paper, painted my floral design with w/c and Gansai Tambi gold paints. Wrote in the text in a script style with a Nikko G nib and Sumi ink.
words: why should I be unhappy? every parcel of my being is in full bloom

Block Border - Think Positive

size: 5.5"w x 4.25"h
On Canson Pen & Ink Paper drew out the border and lettering and painted with Gansai Tambi Gem w/c.  
words: Think Positive

3 Blue Coneflowers In Gold Frame

 Just drawing flowers and this evolved
size: 4.5"w x 6"h
On Canson XL Pen & Ink paper drew out my flower design. and painted with various brands of w/c  Assed the frame with Gansai Tambi light gold

Calligraphy with a blue metallic gel pen.

words: Blue Coneflower

Tangled Frame - Our Destiny

I was playing with a tangle design and it morphed into a frame...
size: 6.5"w x 4.5"h
On Strathmore Calligraphy paper painted the tangle design with FineTech w/c in 2 shades of gold. Metallic gel pen for the dots. Shadowed with a Caran d'Ache B pencil and paper stump
Calligraphy with a green ZIG Clean Color maker.

words: We are permitted to create the frame of our destiny, but what w put in it is ours. Dag Hammarskjold

Scribbled Lives - wk 32 - I Love Letters

Scribbled Lives wk 32 - I LOVE LETTERS
Not happy with the image colors...
Size: 8\'w x 4.5"h
On St Armand watercolor paper using a Rosemary & Co #08 Triangle Brush double dipping into Gansai Tambi Granulating w/c (Aurora Pink and Orange). Adding graphite shadowing with a Caran d'Ache B pencil and paper stump. Then a small highlight with a Unibal white gel pen.
words: I Love Letters

Scribbled Lives Wk 30 - William Morris - Strikingly Beautiful

Size: 4.25"w x 5.5"h
On Canson XL Pen &  Ink paper using w/c for the "T" and a ZIG Calligraphy 2.0 marker "Pure Brown". (needless to say the color on the image did not scan well...).
words: There is no excuse for doing anything which is not strikingly beautiful. William Morris

Abstract Doodle - Housework Can Kill

I was at our Guild's play day this past Saturday and created a bunch of things... this was the 3rd piece I worked on and finished at home - I felt like playing with an involved doodle design...
size: 4.5"w x 6"h
On Canson Mixed Media paper drew a bunch of overlapping squiggly lines, added the large dots at the junctures and larger circles here and there. Started painting areas and then using colored pencils for other areas. No two the same color. Then doodled, again no 2 the same... When I got home added the metallic paints (Kuretake Gansai Tambi). Created the text with a red Juice Up pen

words: Housework can't kill you but why take a chance. Phyliss Diller

Two Heart Doodle - Merging Hearts

I just drew these 2 interlocking hearts and the rest evolved...
size: 4.5"w x 5"h
On Canson Mixed Media paper drew out the hearts with a Zig Writer, then started adding misc designs, then added the words and then colored it with various products - Prisma colored pencils, watercolors, Gansai Tambi golds, graphite shading.
words: Merging Hearts

Oval Leaf Frame - Jeremiah

I was in an oval mood so used my largest circle - 3" - and created the upper and lower sections for the inner oval and joined with straight lines. Voila... then added the outer oval.
size: 5" w x 6" h
Done on Canson Pen & Ink paper, Uniball Metallic blue gel pen, Prisma colored pencils, Med Blue Juice Up for the lettering, Gansai Tambi w/c paint - #901BlueGold.

words: For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and future. Jeremiah

BFly - Happiness Is Like

size: 9"w x 7.5"h
On Canson Mixed Media paper created the butterfly/floral design. Painted around it with the bullet end of a Zig Writer. Painted with various watercolors adding white Uniball gel pen outlines and dots and pointed pen curly-cues. Adhered to a light blue card base. Text written with a Zebra nib and Holbien black gouache in my type of script writing.

words: Happiness is like a butterfly, which when pursued is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Abstract Design - 75

Thought I'd create a piece of artwork to celebrate my 75th BD. Three quarter century... sounds ancient. I've never wanted to reach this far...
size: 8.25"sq
On Canson Mixed Media paper using a Zig Writer created the design. Painted with Gansai Tambi #902 red gold, Gem colors #831 & 850 (pink & green), Windsor Newton "Burnt Umber". Glitter Ritz accents Dark Gold & Warm Highlight. Cross Hatching with a brown Juice Up pen. Added a gold sticker gem in the center.

Doodled Flower - Every Day Is A Fresh Start

I pencil drew a whole bunch of doodling things and then started to transfer the designs to good paper... The next few days will be the results...
size: 5"w x 6"h
On Canson Mixed Media paper using a fine tip Sharpie pen drew out the design. Painted with various brands of watercolors and some Gansi Tambi gold paint. Text written with a Zebra nib and Sumi ink. Backed the artwork onto red scrapbook cardstock.

words: Every day is a fresh start

Abstract Circles - Find Peace

At my recent BVCG Play Day I created this abstract design and then decided to add the quote in the larger circles...
size: 4"w x 6"h
On Canson Mixed Media paper drew my circles with a Zig Writer, then connected them with those curvy bars. I had intended to color everything but then thought better of it with the big circles... Painted the background with Gansai Tambi Graphite Colors (the blue - not that it looks bluish...) then the smaller circles with regular watercolors. Added a white gel pen highlight.

Text written in a style I saw from "Gexeichnete Schriten Von M.J. Grade 1 Plate 23B)
words: Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace. Albert Schweitzer

Perseverance Snail

I came across something on Instagram and was inspired again...
size: 8"w x 7"h
On Canson Mixed Media paper drew my snail form and then doodled within the lines down with a Zig Writer. Painted with watercolors, dropping in lots of water to get a nice blending effect. Highlighted with a white gel pen and some graphite shading.
Text written in a funky style.
words: By perseverance the snail reached the ark. Charles Spurgeon

Paisley Letters - G

I'm taking a class - Paisley Letters with Cecelia Boschi through the Edmonton Calligraphy Society. Fun. This deviates quite a bit from what she taught on Day 1 but I just went with the flow of how I felt...

On Canson Mixed Media paper  using a Juice Up pen.  Painted the background using a ZIG Clean Color brush pen "Cobalt Blue". I really like this color. Then painted the details with Gansai Tambi "Blue Gold".

Scribbled Lives 2024 - Wk 37 - Brian Andreas - Moon & Stars

On Edge Mixed Media paper Using a 4.5 Parallel pen (2.4 for the "and's") dipped into Sumi Ink and the edge of pen brushed with Gansai Tambi Red Gold paint wrote out the text in my Funky Neuland style. Shadow edge the thick strokes with a Juice Up pen.

Words: Moon and stars near and far it's all a part of what we are. Brian Andreas (AKA Kai Skye)