Angel healing potion bottles

One of my favorite things to create is

fancy bottles with wings. 

 

The wings symbolize freedom, transcendence,

alchemy, and buoyancy. 

 

Fancy potion for beauty and awareness

 

When I see these in my journal, I am reminded to

Think deeply and deeply sense the world around me. 

 

I also create pockets to tuck in journal pages or poems. 

 

drawing on vellum

Trinkets for my journals drawn on vellum 

 

100 day project: beautiful word "eudaimonia"

 

100 day project: favorite words

 

 

 

Practicing my writing by paying homage to beautiful words

 

100 day project: Swatching markers

 New markers in pastel colors.

This is how I swatch them.

I use 32 printer paper. 

Lovely colors

 

Ohuhu pastel markers "sweetness"

Uni-ball Signo white 

pilot G-2 10 

Tombow fudenosuke soft and hard marker 

Handmade books

 A sample of some handmade books I have made.

 

 

 

Recycled handmade book.

The cover is brown packaging painted with 

acrylic and colored pencil.

 

 Inside the cover lined with scrapbook paper scraps. 

The hard cover is the cardboard back of the watercolor paper pad.

 Old acrylic paintings are painted black on the back

and folded and bound as signatures inside the book. 

 

 

This cover is repainted watercolor paper.

The calligraphy is written on scraps.

 The pages are recycled junk mail envelopes painted black.

 The envelopes are marked with doodles in white colored pencil.

I kept the original rips and windows. 

 

The pages are out of order: this is the inside cover and 1st page.

 

I place cut-outs and stickers that I call trinkets

in the top of the envelope. 

The signatures are sewn with a long stitch using black and white baker's twine. 

 

 

100 day project: hands

I do a lot of artwork to honor my hands.

Drawing, calligraphy, finger touches, and farmer's walks 

are the ways I work on my flexibility and

range of motion. 

 

Crooked fingers, swollen palms, I still take

joy in creativity. 

 

100 day project: markers and vellum

 Most of the things I have been doing for my 100-day project are 

warm-ups doodle, trinkets for my journal, and sketchbook ideas.

 

 

Sometimes my sketchbook is a spiral notebook, 

and other times it is lightweight paper taken from my printer.

 

 

This time I was curious how these markers perform on vellum. 
 

painted glue book

I have been experiencing the joys of cut paper and painted books

First I painted up a bunch of paper, regular paper that I would print on. Some are scraps or printed pages and doodles that I am recycling.

This is helping me post more. 

fish wishes

i was going through the drafts that i have never posted.

these fish are now journal ephemera. 

100 day project: More Faces

 Casual sketches with markers, on printer paper.

 

 

 

 

 

Working with markers:

Best modality for pain relief, developing dexterity, and keeping my sanity.