Created: October 5, 2023
Modified: November 3, 2023

This is the tenth month of the new challenge for the Scribbled Lives Facebook group. Boy time is flying by...

ID: wk 40 - Inspired By - Flourish
Size: 8"w x 7"h

On matte side of photographic background paper using Kuretake Gold and Silver Mica ink and a pointed nib created the flourished artwork and pointed pen lettering. Mounted onto the glossy side of the paper.

words: Water your dreams with fear, and they will wilt; with doubt, and they will wither; with hope and they will grow; with faith and they will flourish.

ID: Wk 41 - Autumn - Gentle Breezes
Size: 8"w x 6.5"h

On Fabriano 1264 Mixed Media paper sprinkled with various colors of Bister w/c powders and with a2.4 empty Parallel pen dipped in water wrote out the quote in an Uncial style. When dry shadowed with a 2B graphite pencils and paper stump. 

words: Gentle breezes blow 
coloured hues of red and gold
cloak the waiting earth.
Mary Serenc

On Fabriano 1264 Mixed Media paper using Brusho powders (Grey & Ost Red), in Uncial style using a 6.0  & 2.4 Parallel pen dipped in water. When dry graphite shading and paper stump.

This was my original take on the subject.. I've since made one I really like below...

ID: wk 43 - Day Of The Dead - George Eliot
Size: 8"sq

Needless to say the color is not right...

On Fabriano 1264 Mixed Media paper using Gansai Tambi Graphite Colors "Graphite Purple" and a Simply Simmons #6 chisel brush and lots of water, wrote out my text in a Blackletter style. When dry shadow edged the letter with a Koi Color Brush pen "Light Purple", then moved the color around with water.

Words: Our dead are not dead until we have forgotten them. George Eliot

ID: wk 43 - Day Of The Dead - Heart - George Eliot
Size: 5" x 6"

On Fabriao 1264 Mixed Media paper created the heart shape to write in my Blackletter style text using a Marvy 2.0 broad edge calligraphy marker. Drew in the red line heart with a Juice U pen and then wet the inner area for a heart and sprinkled with Bister red powder, touching here and there and adding more water etc. Sprinkled with Neuberg-Ebel Sparkle Bronze 52 powder.

words: Our dead are not dead until we have forgotten them. George Eliot