Showing posts with label ScribbledLives. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ScribbledLives. Show all posts

Sunday, December 21, 2025

Scribbled Lives 2025 - Bound



Scribbled Lives bound... 32 pages including covers. Not sure what this binding is called or if it's just something I made up... 4 ply brown waxed linen thread.

I've had a good 5 years with Scribbled Lives, but like with everything else, things come to a close and I've decided not to continue in 2026.


Friday, December 12, 2025

Scribbled Lives wk 50 - One Word - Imagine


Size: 6.5"w x 4.5"h
On St Armand cold press w/c paper drew out the letters to spell IMAGINE, adding a 3D effect. Colored with various brands of w/c, the background with my favorite blue (Holbien Peacock Blue), when dry doodled in the letters.

PS this will be my last Scribbled Lives post. I've decided not to join for 2026. I've had a good 5 years...

Friday, December 5, 2025

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...

Friday, November 28, 2025

Scribbled Lives 2025 - Wk 48 - B&W Quote - Crazy Is


wk 48 - B&W - Crazy Is
Size: 5.5"w x 5"h
On Genoa Bond paper using a Juice Up pen drew out the funky lettering for something I saw all the time...
words: Crazy is as Crazy does

Friday, November 21, 2025

Scribbled Lives - Wk 47 - Expressive Mark Making


wk 47 - Expressive Mark Making
Size: 6"w x 4.5"h
On Genoa Bond paper using a ZIG Writer created my marks then wrote the text underneath.
words: MARK MAKING - expressive mark making

Friday, November 14, 2025

Scribbled Lives - wk 46 - Mr Rogers - IPOY


wk 46 - Mr Rogers - IPOY
Size: 8"w x 5"h
On Canson Mixed Media paper created the bow and painted with Kuretake gold & copper metallic w/c. Added white gel pen stitching and graphite shadow.
Text in a serif style with a ZIG Writer.
words: The ribbons! The wrappings! The tags! and the tinsel! the trimmings! the trappings! Dr Seuss

Friday, October 31, 2025

Scribbled Lives - wk 44 - RJMayne - Become The Rock


Size: 9"w x 5" h
On Canson Mixed Media paper drew out the rock and painted with w/c. Text in an extended monoline style
words: You must become the rock the river cannot wash away.
Richard J Mayne

Friday, October 24, 2025

Scribbled Lives - wk 43 - Quilting - Memories


 ID: wk 43 - Quilting - Memories
Size: 6"w x 5.5"h
Used  geli print done on Genoa Bond paper drew out the quilt squares and wrote out the quote in a funky style using a ZIG Writer. Added stitch marks and a solid border.
words: Memories R stitched with love.

Friday, October 17, 2025

Scribbled Lives 2025 _Oct Wk 46 - EECummings - Be Of LOVE


wk 46 - EE Cummings_ Be Of Love
Size: 5.25'w x 7.75"h
On Genoa Bond paper using a Mitchell Pedigree Roundhand  1.5 nib wrote out the quote in a funky style with gouache (Holbien Peacock & Geranium mix).

Friday, October 10, 2025

Scribbled Lives - Wk 41 - Postage Stamp - Canada Strong


wk 41 - Postage Stamp - Canada Strong
Size: 4"w x 3.5"h
On Canson XL Mixed Media paper drew out my postage stamp. Painted with various brands of w/c and some of the letters with a silver gel pen. Created a scalloped edge master with an edged scissor and then colored the scalloped edge to my stamp with a red ZIG Writer.

Friday, October 3, 2025

Scribbled Lives - wk 40 - Play - Ovid - In Our Play


Size: 5"w x 4.5"h
On Canson Mixed Media paper wrote out the text then traced it in reverse order using every color in my Zig Calligraphy set.
words: In our play we reveal what kind of people we are. Ovid

Friday, September 26, 2025

Scribbled Lives - Wk 39 - Idiom - Spill The Beans

wk 39 - Idiom - Spill The Beans
Size: 7"w x 5"h
On Genoa Bond Calligraphy paper wrote out the main words in Lisbeth's Zeep Interpretation using both ends of a red and black Zig Writer. Drew in some "beans"... using Prisma colored pencils.

Friday, September 19, 2025

Scribbled Lives - Wk 38 - Ruth Asawa quote



Scribbled Lives - wk 38 - Ruth Asawa quote
Size: 7"w x 8"h
On Bee Super Deluxe paper using every color (except black) from My Zig Calligraphy pen 24 pce set - 2.0 for most of the text and 3.5 for the focal word. Shadowed the focal word with a Caran d'Ache Grafwood 2B pencil and paper stump.
words: An artist is not special. An artist is an ordinary person who can take ordinary things and make them special. Ruth Asawa

Friday, September 12, 2025

Scribbled Lives 2025 Wk 37 - Ribbons - Promises Are Lies


wk 37 - Ribbons - Promises Are Lies
Size: 6"h X 5.5"w

On Edge Mixed Media Sketchbook paper drew out my design. Painted with 1 blue color diluting with water for every section. Gold Sharpie pen for the thin stripe and letters. Silver Sharpie for the center section.

words: Promises are lies wrapped up in pretty ribbons. Virginia C Andrews

Friday, September 5, 2025

Scribbled Lives 2025 - Wk 36 Paul Klee - A Line Is A Dot


Size: 4.5"w x 6"h
On Arches Textwove paper drew out the cubic design, added my words with a ZIG Writer, painted with various yellow watercolors.
words: A line is a dot that went for a walk. Paul Klee

Friday, August 22, 2025

Scribbled Lives - Wk 34 - Summer - Give Me Summer


wk 34 - Summer - Give Me Summer
Size: 7.5"w x 8.5"h
Gelli Print on Columbia Mills LBS End Paper using a Brody Handwritmic pen and Sumi ink wrote out my own words...
words: Give me the end of spring the start of fall and the whole of summer. you can keep all the rest.

Friday, August 15, 2025

Scribbled Lives - Wk 33 - Layers - Brush Creates

 



wk 33 - Layers - Brush Creates
Size: 8"h X 10"w
First layer: on Strathmore Calligraphy paper in funky lettering using a Zig Writer for outline and a red Sharpie pen to color.
Second layer: on tissue paper protecting sheets from Mylar pad using a Juice Up pen in outline lettering.
Third layer: on Mylar using a blue Ultra Fine point Sharpie pen
Fourth layer: Matted with a piece of textured red cardstock
Fifth layer: Full quote written on a cut circle with a Zig Writer in monoline  

Friday, August 1, 2025

Scribbled Lives - wk 31 - Wit/Wisdom - Coffee


Scribbled Lives - wk 31 - Wit/Wisdom - Coffee

image: 5"sq

On Genoa Bond paper Renee M style lettering seen on Kathy Milici onLine posts wrote out the words using 2 brown colors of Kuretake Zig Clean Color markers (060 Brown & 062 Dk Brown). Added dots using W/N Calligraphy white ink.

words: Everyone should believe in something... I believe I will have another coffee.

Friday, July 25, 2025

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

Friday, July 18, 2025

Scribbled Lives wk 29 - Your Country - Gordon Lightfoot


Scribbled Lives -wk 29 - Your Country - Gordon Lightfoot
Size: 7"w x 8.5"h

On Edge Sketchbook paper wrote out part of Gordon Lightfoot's song (Canadian Railroad Trilogy) using 3 colors of blue Juice Up pens in  skinny monoline with exaggerated "O's".

words: There was a time in this fair land when the railroad did not run
when the wild majestic mountains stood alone against the sun
long before the white man, and long before the wheel
when the green dark forest was too silent to be real. So over the mountains and over the plains, into the muskeg, and into the rain, up the St Lawrence, all the way to Gaspé swingin' our hammers, and drawin' our pay.