This is a basic tangle. I used a cursive “S” as the string. It is an ATC (artist trading card) that I made for a swap, 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 on Bristol board. I did the line drawing in pencil, then micron pens. I did some shading in pencil. The shading looks blurred on this scan compared to what it looks like in real life.
I made this on a 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 Bristol Board. I used pencil, micron pen, marker, water-color, and gel pen. I chose some tangle designs that reminded me of quilting or sewing.
I made this on 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 Bristol board using pencil, micron pens, watercolor, markers, and gel pens.
I made this on 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 Bristol board with pencil, micron pen, and gel pens. I had to go over this one three times to get the colors I liked. I am happy with it now. This is Joni’s favorite.
All I want to do is draw, draw, draw, but I have to catch up on my other household things. My Christmas Tree is still up and decorated. I can’t do anything like that without help anymore and that is frustrating. Before I can do the tree, I have to finish the mail pile. Its been piling up since before Christmas because I was drawing picture for Christmas gifts. I am a piler, not a filer. I make stacks of papers, and I have a hard time getting it all put away. My health issues make it much, much worse. I went through all the junk mail and pulled out the bills. I got rid of the junk mail and all the catalogs. How can the catalog people figure out where I live so soon after I moved in? Don’t they know I’m broke? Now I have a cute little thingy that holds a reasonable stack of mail (bills). I love the target $1 spot. I still have to weed out the bills I’ve paid and pay the bills I still need to pay. My goal is to get it done tomorrow and then have Ken help me take down the ornaments and wrap them in tissue and put them in the big Sterilite boxes with the dividers. Then my allergies will clear up.
Every time Ken brings in any of those big plastic containers, my allergies act up because of the dust. I wipe them off right away, but that doesn’t seem to help. Going through paper work gets my allergies riled up, too. With a 3-year-old running around and the allergies acting up, it is hard to get inspired to finish yucky tasks, so I really, really have to finish tomorrow, so I can have my house back.
I had 4 epidural injections in my lower back today, so I have to sit among the boxes, and tree, and folding table with the bills tonight. Tomorrow a clean house! Yaaaay!
Except my big kitchen table which is covered with drawing and painting supplies and books. I am a piler, and not a filer, so I create among chaos. I need all the possibilities out and nearby when I create because that is how I think, and I cannot get up and down to get supplies because I will be in too much pain to create when I finish finding things. I will sort it out and straighten it up before I start drawing again.
I know my grammar is atrocious in this missive. I am an English major, but some days I have to type what I am thinking and turn nouns into verbs just to make the little spell checker lady who lives in my computer crazy.
Its possible I mixed up the K and the L ATC’s but I can see where this could be either one. It was late when I finished. Just micron pen and pencil shading.
I drew a string with a cursive K. It might be upside down now that I look at it, but I like it better this way. Just pencil and micron pen! Its for a traditional tangle swap
For FAce to Face ATC Swap. I used a picture of myself when I was 4 or 5. I drew the tangles around it in micron pen, and colored it with markers and water-color.
High Desert Blue 