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.

Believe In The Beauty Of Color

I was watching Tamer Ghoneim on Summer Creative Retreat 2024 doing "Bubbly Blackletters" not so sure they were bubbly but I liked the look of them...
size: 5"sq   
Done on Canson Mixed Media paper using a 6.0 parallel pen and various brands of watercolors letting the colors merge/blend... When dry outlined with a Zig Writer and doodled with a Juice Up pen. Added graphite shading/paper stump.

words: Believe in the beauty of color

Scribbled Lives 2024 - Wk 27 - Same Quote - Joy Deneen

Size: 7"w x 9"h
On Canson Mixed Media paper. Sprinkled with Bister powders (yelow, red, blue, green) and using a 2.4 &  3.8 empty Parallel pens dipped in water wrote out the quote, cleaning my nib after every letter. On the larger letters shadowed with a black Juice Up pen.
words: Calligraphy is the ultimate synthesis of what love is: language, art and human connection. Joy Deneen

Scribbled Lives 2024 - Wk 11 - Aural Space - Rumi

I ENJOY silence... I live alone and have a hearing disability. Do not watch TV, or listen to the radio. Maybe once a year I listen to some CD's of singers I listened to eons ago... I immerse myself in my art.

Size: 6"w x 9"h
On Canson Mixed Media paper wrote out the words in a tops-y turv-y way... using a 4.5 Parallel Pen and Sumi ink in misc lettering style. Colored some spaces with Prisma colored pencils.
words: In silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves. Rumi 

Friends Are The Whipped Cream

I love reading and am going through an Amish series by Beth Wiseman and came across this quote in the book. I thought what a nice saying and so true.
size: 6"sq
On Canson Mixed media sprinkled Brusho powders (Yellow, Scarlet and Ost Blue). Large word with a 6.0 Parallel pen and smaller text with 3.0pen. Shadowed with a Caran d'Ache B pencil and paper stump.

Words: Friends are the whipped cream on the pie of life.

Scribbled Lives 2024 - Wk 4 - Dragon - Year Of The Dragon

Size: 5.5"w x 6"h
On Fabriano 1264 Mixed Media paper drew out the oriental word, painted with Pental red color brush and outlined with Signo Unibal gold gel pen.
Note: Oriental symbol was enlarged from a Canadian postage stamp from a few years back...
Sprinkled Brusho powders (red & yellow) onto paper and text written with a 6.0 Parallel pen and water. Graphite shadowing.

Scribbled Lives 2024 - Wk 1 - We Are All In

Size: 6"sq
On Bee Super Deluxe paper using a 3.8 Parallel pen filled with Pilot Red cartridge ink (boy is this stuff lousy... it bled on almost all the papers I normally use). Doodled with Bleed Proof white ink and pointed nib. Shadowed with a 4B Caran d'Ache pencil and blended with a small paper stump.
Words: We are all in this together

BVCG Galleria - Movie One Liners

Since I goofed... and created only basic One Liners instead of Movie One Liners I started a new batch. Some are ending up in book form again, but I thought I'd play with my favorite one... I love Sherlock Holmes...

So I created 3 different takes on that one liner. I'm not sure what my favorite is...

The 1st 2 are done on Fabriano 1264 Mixed Media paper. The Last one on 110# Staples cardstokck.

The 1st one is in color using Bister powders and a 4.5 empty Parallel pen dipped in water in an Arthur Baker style of lettering I really like. 

size: 7.5"w x 5.5"h

For the 2nd piece  I created oversized funky letters and then started to doodle in it using  Juice Up pen... I really like the way the letters pop.

size:  9"w x 3.75"h

The 3rd piece was something I came across in Instagram and wanted to play with that style using a Zig Writer... I love the way it also pops...

size: 5.5"w x 7"h 

 

Scribbled Lives Wk 42 - Word Link - Big & Bold

wk 42 - Word Link - Big And Bold
size: 5.5"sq
On Fabriano 1264 Mixed Media paper using Brusho powders (Grey & Ost Red), in Uncial style using a 6.0  & 2.4 Parallel pen dipped in water. When dry graphite shading and paper stump.

Scribbled Lives - Wk 41 - Autumn - Gentle Breezes

Wk 41 - Autumn - Gentle Breezes
Size: 8"w x 6.5"h
On Fabriano 1264 Mixed Media paper sprinkled with various colors of Bister w/c powders and with a2.4 empty Parallel pen dipped in water wrote out the quote in an Uncial style. When dry shadowed with a 2B graphite pencils and paper stump.

words: Gentle breezes blow
coloured hues of red and gold
cloak the waiting earth.
Mary Serenc

Scribbled Lives 2023 - Wk 38 - HB Card - Rhett

This week on Scribbled Lives we were asked to create a Birthday card for a celebrity or famous person and use one of their 1 liner quotes... This immediately popped into my head... probably it's a truer sentiment for me... and since I'm taking a Cadell class with Vivian Mungall I thought I'd practice creating one of them...

On Fabriano 1264 Mixed Media paper sprinkling with Brush powders (Yellow, Scarlet and Ost Blue) created the Cadel "F" with a 2.4 Parallel pen dipped in water. The rest of the quote with a 2.5 Elegant Writer in a Blackletter style..

words: Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.

Bister - Jean (Sept 6, 2023)

Playing with the gals again and my friend started writing the word Jean... so I sprinkled some Bister powders on Fabriano 1264 Mixed Media paper and using a 6.0 Parallel pen wrote out the name in several styles... cleaning my nib after every stroke. I then outlined some of them or doodled.

Bister - Be Bold & Be Happy - Aug 30, 2023

While playing with the gals I was playing with my Bister powders which I keep some of them in a Stamper's Anonymous Glitter Duster container. It dispenses a nice fine spray of powder where I want it...

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Scribbled Lives 2023 - Wk 33 - Artists On Art - A True Artist

A good topic this week... so brought out my Color Burst and Brusho powders. Bummer it's soooo difficult to get the image to look the same as my artwork. There's more depth and intensity. sigh...

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Scribbled Lives 2023 - Wk 29 - Advice

Scribbled Lives 2023 - Wk 29 - Calligraphy Advice

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Doodling July 5, 2023

I seem not to get enough doodling in...I seem not able to stop...

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Scribbled Lives 2023 -Wk 26 - Artificial Intelligence

I think I'll keep quiet about this subject matter for our theme...

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Scribbled Lives 2023 - Paper - Dr Seuss

This week's challenge was to use paper - something we haven't used before or something laying in our stashes... I choose to use my Elephant hide paper. I have 2 weights and the heavier paper I use for bookbinding, but I haven't used the lighter weight... It's something I was hoarding since it is a bit pricey to just experiment with it... but I bit the bullet and it's beautiful to write on.

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Celtic Knot Frame - Bejeweled

We had another ZOOM knot session. I LOVED the one with the square holes... I said it would be great to add rhinestones... So I created one that had lots of those square areas... I'm pleased BIG GRIN

This was created on the smaller dot size grid I created which you can find on my website. Click on above image.

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TG Lettering Challenge - wk 15 - o - over and out

TG Lettering Challenge - wk 15 - o - over and out

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