Mini Booklet - Do What Makes You Happy

 I made this booklet a while back and when searching for something else (again...) came across it... I figured I'd finish it.
size: 4.5"w x 6"h x .25" thk.
It's made with a bunch of various watercolor backgrounds on watercolor paper I was playing around with at the time... 4 sheets folded in half and rusty red waxed linen thread binding (can't remember what it's called... sigh)
It's not that often I do regular calligraphy... but since the cover and 1 page already had that style I figured to continue with it. Done with a 1.5 Parallel pen dipped into Sumi ink and I think I a kind of Italic style - beats me they all look the same... 

 

 

WORDS: words: every day is a fresh beginning, a blank canvas to paint upon.

a man a plan a canal panama

It's not a sin to get knocked down; it's a sin to stay down. Carl Brasheap

if you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl,
but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward. Martin Luther King Jr.

our greatest weakness lies in giving up, the most certain way to succeed
is always to try just one more time. Thomas Edison

when obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal;
you do not change your decision to get there. Zig Ziglar

endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by. Ovid

at the end of the day rest, take a deep breath, smile and start again.

Abstract Spiral - Rhthyms and Spirals

size: 4.25"w x 6"h
On Canson Mixed Media paper using a ZIG Writer, Prisma colored pencils and Uniball white gel pen.
Text with a 1.5 Parallel pen and Sumi ink
words: The whole universe is based on rhythms. Everything happens in circles and spirals. John Hartford

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 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.