Art Nouveau - Yes No & Thanks

Continuing playing with these Art Nouveau style letters on black cardstock using various coloring mediums trying to find something that really speaks to me... I really like doodling on them...

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Art Nouveau - Howdy & Hello - Colored

Since I've been playing with this style of Art Nouveau on white paper with black pens I thought I'd play on black paper with coloring mediums... I will continue to play since I want something that really stands out...

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Slip Knot Booklet

This lady has easy and clear instructions for the slip Knot Binding.

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Circles On Steroids - Always Believe

Last evening the Bow Valley Calligraphy Guild hosted Tamer Ghoniem teaching "Circles On Steroids". I love Tamer's Blackletter work, but since I'm still working with Italic this month I thought I'd do my piece with that hand... Only a slight miscalculation with my circle size - sigh!!

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Helen Hiebert Folded Hat

Helen Hiebert launched her newest book and shared this Folded Hat project. Fun.

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Art Of The Fold #21 - Fishone - Sunfish

Our challenge for our February 8th meeting is to try the next  structure in the book - One Sheet Folds #21 Fishbone Fold from Hedi Kyle's "Art Of The Fold" book. I thought I'd do a whimsical one this time... 

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Parallel Pen Technique

Annette Wichman from Kensington Art Supply here in Calgary made our Guild aware of a technique with our Parallel Pens... She saw it on Instagram by an artist @danapiazza who double loads his pen by dropping color into the little hole near the nib.

PS don't look at my calligraphy - that's atrocious...

The top images of black Sumi ink in my pen with Kuretake Silver or Gold Mica ink dropped in the hole. I LOVE the results...

Then I said to myself why bother having ink in the pen at all... Just drop colors into the hole... I started with deAtramentis Pearlescent ink Magenta Red/Gold and then after a few letters dropped in Cyan Blue/Copper, Then when I got to the "Y" I dropped in more of the Magenta. The change in color is not as visible in the image as in real life. I love the color in the small "i". It really has a blended merging of color. Will need to do more experimenting... and neater calligraphy.

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Who Me? No Thank You!

Who Me? Not Thank You!

This is another piece I made for Our Guild's (BVCG)  next ZOOM Galleria in January and the theme is "In Your Own Words". Definitely not my favorite topic...

I really love Liesbet's type of lettering...  The way I painted them reminds me of prehistoric lettering...

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Charcoal - No, No, No, Not Me!

 I'm taking a 2 day online Zoom class with Rachel Yallop using Compressed Charcoal and Conte de Paris pencils. Interesting but dirty work...

The "N" is from a handout in Carl Rohr's class  which I fell in love with. I love that squiggle...

Our Guild's (BVCG) is having another ZOOM Galleria in January and the theme is "In Your Own Words". Definitely not my favorite topic... 

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BVCG November Lettering Challenge - Day 11 - 14

BVCG November Lettering Challenge - Day 11 - 14

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BVCG November Lettering Challenge - Day 8 - 10

 BVCG November Lettering Challenge - Day 8 - 10

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Stencils - Warm Winter Wishes & Holiday Greetings

   

I continued to play after watching Jeffrey Olson from Royal Talens on Texas Lettering For Holiday Projects use watercolors through a stencil on black paper.

The holiday greetings card uses the leftover pieces...

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Stencils - Snowflakes Falling

 

After watching Jeffrey Olson from Royal Talens on Texas Lettering For Holiday Projects use watercolors through a stencil on black paper I was in a mood to play...

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Art Of The Fold #19 - Triangular Book - Scribbled Bkgr'd

Art Of The Fold #19 - Triangular Book - Scribbled Bkgr'd. I really likethe look of this structure even though it seems useless... sigh!

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Pencil To Paper - Illumination - JOY Card

And the "JOY" card I mentioned in my ATC post recently. Since the "J" on it's own didn't make a great card... I created the "O&Y" and cut them out and pasted them to the Illuminated piece. The card is a beautiful off white pearlized cardstock. I'm happy with the way it turned out...

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Art Of The Fold #19 - Triangular Book - Compassion

Art Of The Fold #19 - Triangular Book - Compassion, Our next meet up is November 9th. This is a fun easy structure although it's not very useful... except to use up goofs I created... The text in the image above had an error at the bottom - I used the word compassion instead of kindness. Beats me where my mind was...

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Xmas Triptychs - On Black

 

For my last 2 of the 10 triptychs I needed to make, I thought I'd do some on black cardstock using my Kuretake Mica inks. 

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Scribbled Lives 2021 - Wk 42 - Compassion

Scribbled Lives - Wk 42 - Compassion. I mentioned I bought a bunch of deAtrementis Pearlescent inks on the weekend. A friend asked me if they were waterproof. It didn't say on the bottle so I did a little experiment - THEY ARE NOT WATERPROOF... but the result I got, got me thinking in a tangent... BIG GRIN

The one below was the first one I did and when I started reading it to write my post I realized I made a mistake - sigh. So did the one on top next. I'm OK with both but I really like the one below more. love the vertical stripes.

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Scribbled Lives 2021 - Wk 41 - Discipline - Choosing Now Over Want

 

Scribbled Lives 2021 - Wk 41 - Discipline - Choosing Now Over Want. 

I just bought a bunch of Atramentis Pearlescent inks. They are absolutely gorgeous. The ink is mixed with either a gold, copper or silver. They do need constant stirring but well worth the effort. I used "Cyan Blue/Copper" and a touch of "Magenta Red/Gold" without cleaning my nib between colors giving a nice variegation.

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The image below is prior the gold shadow lines.

Pencil To Paper & Illumination Triptych ATC's

Further to the class I took on the weekend with Ann Purdy "Pencil To Paper" I had created a "J" that was too large for an ATC - sigh, so that one became a greeting card which you'll see in another post...

So then I created the "O" the right size...

I also caught part of Cheryl Tefft's Illumination ZOOM class held by the Edmonton Calligraphy Society - it was held during my in person class... so couldn't really catch it till I got home and watched the last hour. So decided to combine the 2 techniques. I really like the results of this set of triptychs.

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