Originally, I wasn’t going to do today’s challenge prompt because I’m trying to get over a stupid cold and have been laying low the whole day. But I started to feel a bit perkier in the evening and decided it wouldn’t be too hard to knock this one out if I did simple brush lettering. It was fun—even though I’m a cotton-headed-ninny-muggins right now.
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Today’s doodle prompt is “Stockings”, and my imagination immediately pictured a hidden letter piece (again… I can’t help it… I think my brain’s just wired this way). I did this with a combo of various colors of markers in several sizes. An added bonus outcome of working with all the reds and greens is that it got me in a Christmas-y mood.
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Today’s lettering challenge prompt is “Silent Night”. I decided to break out the watercolors again for this one so I could somehow reflect the night sky in the letters. Since I was a little girl, “Silent Night” has been a favorite Christmas carol. This is what I think of when I hear or sing that carol—clear midnight blue skies over the silhouettes of the buildings of Bethelem being lit by the new star.
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Back in graphic design school, my lettering instructor introduced the class to the concept of hidden lettering. As someone who loves hidden word puzzles and the like, I really gravitated toward the idea and in the years that followed, every once in a while I’d produce a hidden lettering piece. The lettering and doodling challenge I’ve been participating in for close to a month now has brought those ideas to the forefront of my mind. Every time it’s a day for doodling, ideas of hidden lettering compositions begin to percolate to the surface of my imagination. Today the idea shot to the forefront of my mind almost completely composed, and I had to get the idea out of my brain and onto paper. That doesn’t happen often, but I love it when it does.
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I decided to get creative in Photoshop and use some of my textures with today’s challenge prompt. I did all the lettering by hand in ink on paper. Then after I scanned it in, I applied textures using layers masks and blending modes on layers.
By the way, the textures I used are available for purchase in my recently released 12 texture variety pack “Texture Candy”.
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Ever since art class in high school, I’ve been fascinated with playing with negative space and fooling the eye into filling in lines where there are none. I decided to toy with that idea for today’s challenge prompt “Snowflakes”.
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This is the last challenge prompt for November—”Let’s stay up late & draw”. I think I may have to continue on into December with the new prompts Dawn Nicole will post on Instagram. This has been way too much fun not to continue on… and I did start the challenge late in the month of November… oh well… If I must, then I must. *wink*
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I ordered some new pens, and they came in yesterday’s mail. I didn’t get to break them in until today’s challenge prompt “Happy Heart”. I did something completely different than what I had started out doing. I love when that happens—creative serendipity.
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For today’s challenge prompt of “drop cap”, I decided I needed to break out the watercolors. I’m so glad I did. It feels really good to get my hands on a brush again—therapeutic and relaxing while exhilarating all at the same time. It’s been too long. I think I’m going to have to do some more watercolor pieces.
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| Art, Inspiration, Lettering
When I get ready to letter the day’s prompt, I often go to my “Type, letters & stationery” and/or “Vintage ephemera & paper” boards on Pinterest to get inspiration on letter forms and styles. Today’s prompt was no exception. My inspiration was a lettering piece by Anthony Hos.
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