Happy Birthday

 

Zoom Friends

 

It was just pure fun at the Westcoast Calligraphy Meeting the other night.  Wendy provided some new ideas for Writing Between the Lines.  Her presentation included lots of great examples from our own website, as well as some inspirational other sources.

It was inspired by the work of Rena Askey.

Party at the Nest!

 

Greeting Card, 4 1/4" x 5 1/2"

Watercolour and Posca Paint Pen

Happy New Year!

 

Greeting Card, 4 1/4" x 5 1/2"

Watercolour and Posca Paint Pen on Gelli Print

While we're celebrating the possibilities of 2021, I'm organizing my birthday calendar for the new year.  It's time to make a few cards.  

During the last week I've been playing with a new 5" x 7" gelli plate,  making papers for mounting greetings.  The new plate is a perfect size for a card front.

Bloomers

 

I'm still finishing up my "Doodle Book" from Joanne Sharpe's Art Sparks series.

Let's Do it in Colour!

 

Gel Pen and Watercolour
Stillman and Birn Alpha Series

As I was working on "Grow", in The Doodle Book from Joanne Sharpe's class, I had the urge to doodle in colour, so I worked with gel pens in my Stillman and Birn sketchbook.  Although we are using watercolour paper in Joanne's class, this smoother mixed media paper is much easier to doodle on.

This page was also inspired by Yellena James and her book Star, Branch, Spiral, Fan, which I reviewed in 2017.

White Pops

 

Grow

 

This doodle keeps growing!

A Collage of Blossoms

 

Finding Blossoms in Paint Splotches

 

Love of Layers

 

Gouache, Posca Paint Pens

Check out The Doodle Book class with Joanne Sharpe here.

Drawing Lesson

 

Watercolor, Ink

Joanne says that doing this pen work is how you learn to draw.

The Scribble Doodle

 

Gouache, Posca Paint Pens

Watercolour, Ink, Posca Paint Pens

You can find out more about Joanne Sharpe's class here.

Bold and Basic

 

The first doodle in The Doodle Book is bold and basic, but it isn't the first doodle of the class.

The Doodle Book is 6" x 6"and contains sixteen pages of our own doodle creations.  But before beginning this book, we made a smaller, 18 page book, containing lots and lots of sample doodles and ideas.  We were encouraged to copy Joanne Sharpe's patterns in this first book to help us build our doodling skills.

Art Sparks 4: The Doodle Book

 

Joanne Sharpe's latest Art Sparks class is all about doodling.  This is the cover of my book.

Spring Being a Tough Act to Follow.....

 

I've still got lots of "art bits" left over, so I'll be collaging them into some of my other journals.  Of course there is also the possibility of ArtSparks3!

Summer Breeze

 

Heat Wave

 

These are two more pages from my ArtSparks2 book, Summer.

Blue Skies

These are the first two pages of my ArtSparks2 book, Summer. 

Inside front cover

Thanksgiving

a spread from Tiny Sparks, a book made in Art Sparks, a class with Joanne Sharpe