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).

Trust Earned - Not Blind

size: 7.5" sq
On Canson Mixed Media paper wrote the main words using a Tim's pen into a mix of Holbien Peacock and Geranium gouache. When dry doodled with a white Uniball Signo gel pen. Added the smaller text with a pointed nib.
words: Trust needs to be eared not blind.

Oak Leaves and Summer Florals - Summer Ends

I decided to do some florals in a section I don't usual do them in... I have a tendency to work from left to right...
size: 5.5"w x 4.5"h
On Canson Mixed Media paper drew out  the floral design and colored with various brands of watercolors. Wrote in the text  with a pointed nib and a funky brown mix of Gouache I had created a long time ago.
words: Summer ends, and autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night. Hal Borland

Scribbled Lives - Wk 22 - Edward Johnson Quote

Scribbled Lives - wk 22 - Edward Johnson Quote
Size: 7"w x 6"h
On Canson Mixed Media paper using a 4.5 Parallel pen dipped into Holbein Gouache (Peacock Blue, Permanent Yellow, Flame Red) either in a single color or double dipping in Uncial style. When dry shadowed with a Zig Writer.
words: To make good letters and arrange them well. Edward Johnson

Scribbled Lives Wk 4 - Foreign Language - Flemish

I was born in Antwerp, Belgium which is a bilingual country (Flemish &  French)
Size: 5"w x 4.5"h
Created on Canson Mixed Media paper using Holbien gouache (mix of Burnt Umber, Dk Green & Pearl Copper) with pointed pen script lettering. Translation in monoline.

Quote: The limit of my language means the limit of my world. Ludwig Wittgenstein

translated into Flemish: de grenzen van mijn taal zijn de grenzen van mijn wereld

Pencil Flower - Beautiful

size: 8"w x 3"h
On Edge Mixed Media paper drew my flower with a Juice Up pen adding dot texture in the leaves and heavier details in the flower. Shaded with a Caran d'Ache B pencil and paper stump.
Text in a script style using a Zebra nib and Holbien jet black Gouache
words: Flowers do not worry about how they're going to bloom. They just open up and turn toward the light and that makes them beautiful. Jim Carrey

For Instagram I need a more square image or it gets cut off...

 

Doodle Curves - Make Believe

Another doodling day with my friend.
size: 6" sq
On Edge Mixed Media paper using a Zig Writer created the swirly curls design adding red Gelly Roll Metallic gel dots.
Text in one of my funky styles using Holbien jet black Gouache
words: Make-believe colors the past with innocent distortion, and it swirls ahead of us in a thousand ways - in science, in politics, in every bold intention. Shirley Temple

Scribbled Lives - Wk 46 - Shakspeare - Ring The Alarm Bell

Size: 9.5"w x 7.5"h
On Edge Mixed Media Sketchbook paper using a Copic Wide nib Double dipped into Holbien gouache (combo's Gold, Magenta or Ice Blue). Using a Leonard Round #4 broad edge nib with the same color combos and Sumi ink for the rest of the text.
Shadowed the large word with a B Caran D'Ache pencil and blending with a paper stump.
words: Ring the alarm bell
Blow wind, come wrack,
At least we'll die with harness on out back. Macbeth Act 5, Scene 5

Drum Leaf Binding - Words To Live By

I came across this DRUM LEAF binding on Vintage Page Designs Facebook Nov 4/24 post and decided to play with it…click HERE  for the post

Cut my 5pcs of white Stonehenge paper to 5"h x 10" w and one larger one for the covers. Sprayed with various colors of Distress Spritz (Fossilized Amber, Peacock Feathers, Peeled Paint, Picked Raspberry, Spiced Marmalade, Twisted Citron and Walnut Stain). Sprinkled with Coarse salt and then sprayed with water. Let it dry completely.

Fold the pages in half and  the back side of one folded piece to the back side of the next folded piece until all were attached to each other. Used binder clips to hold the pages together and applied glue to the spine - let dry. Adhered the cover to the first page creased for my spine and then adhere the rest to the back page. Adhered the belt to the front adding a piece to slip my end into for closure. Added one of my wax seals as decoration.

Die cut the large letters using Sizzix Tim Holtz Alterations "Vintage Market" alphabet from pink cardstock. Rest of the text was done with a Zebra pointed pen nib in Bookhand style using Holbien Jet Black gouache.

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Scribbled Lives 2024 - Wk 44 - 1 Word 5 Ways- Color

Oh this was a fun exercise Beth Lee. Thanks. Couldn't resist using the word "Color" Big Grin
Size: 7.5"sq
On Canson Mixed Media used some gouache I had laying around from a project a while back... It's extremely rare I use gouache I prefer watercolors...
1: Copic wide 1st double dipping into 2 colors. When dry outlined with a med blue Juice up pen.
2: Pointed pen, Zebra nib into Kuretake Gold Mica ink.
3: Blue Parallel pen into the darkest of the 4 colors I had mixed.
4: Zig Writer in the multi colored work in one of Violet Smythe's funky styles and painted with the gouache.
5: Pointed pen in Dot Lettering as taught by Mina Taylor and dots created with the embossing tool into the rusty orange gouache.

Accordion - Removable Spine - Green - The Garden We Grew

Since the 1st one I created was for a client and I really loved this structure and poem... I had to make one for myself.

Created the text on I believe copy paper that I had pre-cut eons ago... so thought I'd use more of it.
Wrote out the text using a Zebra pointed nib and two colors of green gouache (Holbien Terre Verte & Cypress Green) in "Bullet Rider Typeface" style and trimmed down to 5"w x 4"h.
Cut several strips of this pale green colored Mi-Tientes paper to create the accordion giving me a border of 1/4" all around the text piece.
Created the covers using some of my gelli print paper (front and back of gelli print) around some white cardstock, then slipped the ends of the accordion into the cover and held everything closed with the spine insert (the whole thing is removable if desired)

Paisley Letters - Cecelia Boschi - Practice Sheet Day 1

I'm taking a ZOOM class through Edmonton Calligraphy Society with Cecelia Boschi, Oct 5 & 12, 2024.
My practice sheet from Day 1 using a Zebra pointed pen nib and both Black Gouache and Sumi ink done on Genoa Bond calligraphy paper.

Black Is Magical

I haven't used Gouache in years. Not my favorite medium - can you guess...  but I've been seeing so many posts with people using them so I pulled mine out and put them in a a multi hole palette with a label on the cover so I'd remember what colors are what...
Size:  6"sq
On Canson Mixed Media Paper double loaded a Simply Simons #6 Chisel paint brush and dipped into Lukas Ivory Black  and Pebeo Helliotrope. I really like that combo. Graphite and paper stump shading and white Gelly Roll highlights. Rest of the text with a Juice up pen in serif monoline style.

words: Black is just no beautiful it's magical.

Doodling - Funkiness Exudes

I doodled the center floral stem first and then the rest just morphed into a design... and it just looked funky... and since I was outside playing with double loading gouache on a Simply Simons #6 Chisel brush I used that for the title...

Size: 3"h" x 8"w
On Canson Mixed Media paper using various colors of Juice Up pens created the funky floral design.
words: Funkiness Exudes

BVCG Play Day - Mar 16/24

Since I didn't have any direction I wanted to go in... I just wrote and doodled what crossed my mind... Since I had brought one of my glass pens with me I started with that.

Except for the alphabet piece done on Bee Super Deluxe paper, the rest were done on our Genoa Bond practice paper.

As written testing my glass pen using Sumi ink and then using gouache. Since I'm notorious for spell or leaving letters out... this was no different. Forgot the "u" in gouache so added it under the handle of the "a" and repeated with the "h" to make it like it all belonged...
Then was doodling the bottom area and testing another nib and then felt like writing the word "Happiness"

Black ZIG calligraphy 3.0 pen

continuing with the Black ZIG calligraphy 3.0 pen

Then I started with that curvy line, creating it on each turn of the paper. I love the look of this. Put initials in them and some colored pencil. 

Then I was playing with gouache trying to get the effect that Loredana Zega does - nope didn't work but still had paint on my brush so created the linear design. Then wrote the funky alphabet and the text below... and of course another mistake... yourself should be one word but put the "e" after the "r" instead of the "s"... so created a little doodle... Ha Ha

Pointed Pen Uncial Exemplar

I recently heard the words Pointed Pen Uncial... and I said why not... so while playing with the gal this week, I thought I'd create them... 

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ECS Env Exchange Dec 2022

And the last ECS envelope exchange for 2022. I'm using my new favorite style of lettering, this chunky Art Noueau...

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Art Nouveau - Who Hates Speeding Tickets

Day 3 of Ewan Clayton's Art Nouveau ZOOM class.

I really like this piece even if I did misquote the quote and it could be a bit neater... but I was having problems with the flow of my Bleed Proof white (thickness versus opacity...). Anyway that last word should have been "foot" instead of "hand"...

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TLA - One Sheet Wonder - Bold & Beautiful

I signed up for Texas Lettering Arts Holiday Projects 3 day classes. So far really good...

This one was taught by Veronica Phillips. She used 12"sq double sided paper. Needless to say I used something different... 12 x 14" paper and painted both sides with gouache on my Geli plate...

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No Sew - Slip Knot Booklet - Smiles

So, since I sold my "Sarcastic" booklet, I decided to make a similar one to remember it by... BIG GRIN

These sayings inside will give you a little chuckle...

PS the binding I'm using on this booklet I will be teaching at Paper Pastimes here in Calgary on November 10,2022 from 1 to 4PM. Hope you'll join me for a fun afternoon.

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