Quote Art

Laundry Room Art

We changed around our laundry room (it's really just a small one - more like a closet) and I decided it needed some color, so I did some laundry room art.  I am not super happy with the frames, so I'm going to go look for some to change these out (I love the white one, but the walls are white).

And here is my new desk area that I use for the inking part of my backgrounds:

A Few Doodles

Finally! Some Time to Doodle!

Summer has been crazy.  Vacations, kids home, helping kids move ... it's been way too busy!  I finally had a moment to sit and doodle some word art:

A Wordy Night

I must have been super hungry because I ended up doing 4 different art pieces last night to keep from eating!

Funny Sayings

More Quote Art

I'm renewed now that I have a bunch of new backgrounds to play on.  I also discovered a blog that showed how to do some lettering that I've played with - even my handwriting looks artistic!

Art - Backgrounds for my Journals

I really needed to work on doing some backgrounds in my journals and just on some blank pages to have some things to do my art on.

I've got them on the floor drying in front of the heater.

My workspace.  I use the spray inks and water to make the colors mix together.  Some of what I do is on simple card stock paper and some is actually on watercolor or mixed media paper.  I spray the paper liberally with water - some I have have actual puddles on the page - so that when I add the ink, it swirls and flows over the page.

Quote Art

Played some more with some ink spray backgrounds in addition to just my normal art journal with it's crisp white pages.

Spring Doodles

I'm looking forward to moving from winter doodles to spring doodles!  I'm starting to get inspired!  Now I just have to have time to doodle!

Fun Doodles and Moonglow Pens

I think my lettering is getting better?  I used the pencil technique and then a gum eraser to erase the pencil after I outlined the letters.  I like this one.

I like this lettering as well.  I wonder if it would look better if I outlined it in thicker black?

More Art on Spray Ink Backgrounds

I just really love the spray ink backgrounds!

I used the pencil technique on this one - where you write and then outline your pencil writing with pen and then erase the pencil marks.  I used a putty eraser so as not to damage the background.

But I still love my little journal as well - white pages and all!  I've tried using the spray ink on these little journals, but they aren't the right paper for it, so it's not the greatest technique.  I do enjoy blank white pages, though - lots of things to do with them!

Just doodles!  I like the freeform doodles where you don't have to worry about what you are trying to draw or make.  It's just random!