Created: July 3, 2021
Modified: July 29, 2021

This is the Scribbled Lives Facebook group challenge.

ID: wk 26 - Pareidolia - Da Vinci

On Bee Super Deluxe paper, pointed pen and Sumi ink in a script type style wrote out the quote. 

Drew my decorated letters, outline and doodlig with a Micron pen and colored with QoR watercolors and Derwent Inktense w/c pencils.

ID: Wk 27 - Flowers - A Fallen Blossom
Size: 9"sq

I've always been fascinated by Blackletter and circle formats... Tamer Ghoneim does fabulous calligraphy and he had a ZOOM free class yesterday (July 8/21) where he showed his process for creating circular artwork. Picked up quite a few tricks.

Circle size, I'm still doing my way. I write out the quote, using the pen size and lettering style I will use on the final piece (doesn't have to be extremely neat...). Measure it and do a radius calculation.  (C=2πR). If the length (circumference) of my work is 15", (π= 3.14) so 2π = 6.28. Divide 6.28 into your circumference of 15" and you get  basically a radius of 2.4". Now you can draw your various circles. Put a pencil mark where you want the center of your circle and draw your first circle which is your base line. Then draw all the other circles. 

I used an EK Success Orbit Circle Scissor (sorry it's discontinued, but there are many other brands and style out there. I find the ruler type where you hold the center point is not very good for me - it always moves...

I used Bee Super Deluxe paper, drew my circles and did my lettering with a 2.4 Parallel pen filled with Sumi ink, double dipped into Ecoline Gold. Detail in between the letters with Holbien Opera Pink gouache and a fine tipped nib (Gillot). Drew the extra circles with a Gold gel pen and a pink Zig Writer.

Painted the flower with QoR watercolors accenting with the gold ink. The butterfly (Flourishes) stamped with Versa Clair ink and hand cut.

Quote: A fallen blossom returning to the bough, I thought - but no a butterfly. Arakida Moretake

ID: Wk 28 - Summer Songs - Homeward Bound

We were asked to go back in time when we were 16 and pick a hit summer song... Not sure if this was a summer song, but it was a hit in that year....

Since I just finished a class with Julie Wildman "Imre Reiner" lettering I thought I practice in his style... Lettering called "Mercurius MT Bold Script".

On Arches text wove drew my letters and colored with Derwent Inktense watercolor pencils.

On Bee Super Deluxe paper. Wet the paper and  sprayed with Dylusions "Calypso Teal" and "Crushed Grape". Let dry.

Wrote out the quote using a pointed nib and Holbein "Permanent White" gouache in a monoline style.

Created the caldron and bubbles with colored pencils.

ID: Wk 30 - Map -The Past is not
Size: 7.5"sq

On Bee Super Deluxe paper, drew my circle and wrote out the circles with a pointed nib in a Copperplate style with Sumi ink. Added the flourishes and the gold pen circles and design element.

Quote: The past is not a compass for your future. Give yourself the permission to chart a new course. Stephanie Leigh Mulac