artful words

Another MMSA swap. This one is supposed to be all about words, not images, so I went with my favorite quote from Theodore Roosevelt on gelli print cards.

Tried to use some different lettering styles. <gurk> Despite taking a few lettering classes, I seem to have an arsenal of about 3 or 4 styles.

Which I guess is better than the 1 I had when I started art journaling.


Did a lot of additional work on the letters themselves - outlining, shadowing, fills, dots.

My fave is the one on the blue background cause I like how the white gel pen fill in JOY came out. 

LL 201 lesson 2

This was a fun one. Took me a week of working on the couch in the evenings while DH watched bad sci fi. 

Joanne supplied a whole list of words and phrases, but I had to go my own way, as usual. There are a few of hers, plus movie quotes, song lyrics, favorite foods, phrases I liked from a book - all sorts of stuff.

Dug out my huge box of assorted markers, used some gel pens, some Copics, a white Signo pen.

I quite like it and will do another one of these at some point with a more focused batch of phrases and quotes.

Learning to spell is next on my list...