Doodle - Not Everything Counts

I was in a mood to play with black paper again... so opened my Strathmore Black Field Drawing book and started adding wavy lines.
size: 4.5"h x 6.25"w
Then coloring with Prisma colored pencils, then played with some Uniball metallic gel pens, then decided to put some gold leaf (Mona Lisa Variegated Green Leaf). This time I used a good bottle of Gerry Tresser Gold Size Gilding Adhesive. Text in monoline with a white Juice Up pen.

words:
Not everything that counts can be counted and not everything that can be counted counts. William Bruce Camero

Letters As Art - Day 2 - Let Me - Take 1

1st take: see tomorrow for take 2

size: 7"w x 4"h
On St Armand cold press w/c paper Lettered my quote in very light pencil lines. Gilded the "O's" with 23 3/4K warm gold leaf (C. Roberson & Co) and Jerry Tresser size. Painted with various brands of watercolors.

Doodled Squares - Gilded Tedious

This took waaay longer than I expected to create it... a lot of manipulating  my ruler to draw straight lines. Hence the word "Tedious".
size: 5.5"sq
On Edge Mixed Media paper created my square design using Juice Up pen, colored with Posca colored pencils and  Gansai Tambi gold paint. Word done in a funky style with variegated gold leaf. Small gold and silver mini rhinestones glued to the centers of the squares

word: Tedious

Abstract Leaves- Colores Of The Spirit

size: 7.5"w x 7"h
On Edge Mixed Media paper drew my leaf design using Pitt Artist Fine Liner pens.  Painted with Holbien blue and green paint mix and some of the W/N yellow. The bulbous thingies... with Winsor Newton red and yellow. Added some variegated leaf balls at the end of the leaves.
Text written in elongated monoline with a .7 Pitt pen.
words: Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Gold Leaf - Blossom & Flourish

size: 6"sq
Mentioned in my previous post haven't gilded in years... I used a different needle nose bottle (I think a smaller nib hole but can't tell by eyesight), but my lines are slightly thinner. Still getting the blobs at the junctions... practice...

On Fabriano 1264 paper gilded my design using US ArtQuest Duo adhesive in a needle nose bottle. Gilded with an unknown brand of imitation gold leaf. Painted with various brands of watercolors.
Text written in Dot Lettering style with a mid tone blue Juice Up pen

words: Our souls cannot be forced to grow, but like flowers our spiritual selves can be nurtured until they blossom and flourish. James Van Praagh

Gold Leaf Flowers - Your Future

size: 6"w x 7"h
Since I haven't gilded in years... there's a lot to be said about this piece... I'll need to practice a bit more BIG GRIN (or maybe a lot more)

On Black Field Drawing paper gilded my design using US ArtQuest Duo adhesive in a needle nose bottle. Gilded with an unknown brand of imitation gold leaf. Colored with Black Edition colored pencils. Added some pointed pen leafy images using Kuretake Gold Mica ink.
Text written in Gwen Weaver style with the Mica ink and the pointed nib.

words: The best way to predict your future is to create it. Christina L. Farley "Gilded"

Floral Circle - Faith Is The Substance

size: 6"sq
On a linen textured cardstock drew a circle and designed the floral arrangement. Used 22.75k gold leaf for the leaves and inscribed the vein with a small balled stylus. Painted with Derwent Inktense watercolor pencils.
words: faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen

Scribble Lives 2023 - Wk 47 - Alphabetically Speaking - Celtic "Y" Gilded

ID: wk 47 - Alphabetically Speaking - Celtic "Y" Gilded

This week on Scribbled Lives we need to create a letter only... no text. Since I've done a Celtic "H" & "G" I decided to do a "Y"...

Size: 4"w x 5.5"h
On Paper Reflections black cardstock outlined my Celtic letter with a Sakura white 08 Geli Roll pen.
Gilded the center ovals with Roberson's "red gold"23K gold leaf and the rest with Mona Lisa Red Leaf using a Designa Size Quick Pen gold leaf adhesive.
Colored the knot work with Black Edition colored pencils. Added some holographic gel glitter in the 3 dots.

Celtic - G - Gold Leaf

Again I googled for a letter... inspired by this shape.

Size: 3.5"w x 3"h: On Fabriano 1264 Mixed Media paper using a Juice Up pen and Prisma colored pencil #911. Gilding with Roberson 80  Moongold 22k gold leaf.

It's been a few years since I've gilded... almost forgot how...

Image below is slightly distorted but shows the gold leaf shine...

 

Glittering Vines - Pink Floral

I'm taking a 2 day workshop with Heather Victoria Held, hosted by the Edmonton Calligraphy Society - Glittering Vines. I decided to make a finished piece with one of my practice pieces...

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PS someone asked me to post a pic of the glue I used which was Instacoll (for raised gilding) which I purchased from John Neal Books (in their current catalogue on page 45). See below

 

 

 

Jurgen Vercaemst - Day 4 - Color Is By Day

As  last exercise Jurgen created a monoline piece of this quote. There were aspects of it he didn't like so I thought I'd try doing it as well. I'm very pleased with mine. The bottom image is the trial piece on regular calligraphy paper. The image above is the final piece with some 23K gold leaf.

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Fainting Fantasies - Fall

Fainting Fantasies - Fall. After Heather Held's class I needed to create a fall card using here techniques. Even though I really like what I did, it's not as delicate as what Heather ends up with... Practice...

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Scribbled Lives 2021 - Wk 19 - Taking It Forward

Scribbled Lives 2021 - Wk 19 - Taking It Forward

I've taken over 30 ZOOM classes since the pandemic started... and I have to admit it's one of the good things that came out of this crisis...

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Jan/21 - From My Heart To Yours

The heart with the swirls is something else I recently saw and wanted to mimic. The card I saw had the swirls over the whole card, I decided less is better... I also changed the look of the heart. 

This one has 23kt gold leaf which I tooled. It's going to someone special...

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More Crazy Illumination - Joyeaux Noel

More Crazy Illumination - Joyeaux Noel, I made one more card... I used some left over geli print paper. It's a totally different look than the previous abstract Xmas Ornament...

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Crazy Illumination - Xmas Cards

I took a ZOOM class today with Loredana Zega "Crazy Illumination", and made these 3 cards during the session. WOW 3 more Xmas cards down the hatch...

 

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Nov/20 - Shalom - Happy Hanukkah

And continuing on in Julie Wildman's class day 3 (Nov 6th) I created this card for my aunt who asked very nicely last year if I would make a Hanukkah card for her. I said yes and almost forgot...

I'm using 23kt gold leaf on the flames, and I really like the way I used the Shalom word to hold up the Menorah. The Shalom is written with Walnut ink with a B-4 nib and sprinkled with Schminke gold powder.

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