Love the soda can pen and what it can do. Very organic! I'll be making some and trying them out. Thanks for the idea!! Love the paper collages, especially the vase of flowers! Endless creations!!
Love this dear Annemarie! Got my hubby to make me some pens . He likes these kind of projects now that he’s retired! Too bad you live so far away ! Hope Nicky is doing ok. Hug hug Deb
I always love your experiments. That pen is very cool. I’d like to see how a more blunt end would work. Love the watercolor you showed and your collages.
this would be great for junk journaling and card making are you familiar with the Tim Holtz line scorched timber is the newest color of inks, sprays and paints love the effect of your pens thanks for sharing
On the little squares I recommend looking up quilting techniques using strips. It is hard to describe. I’ll try. For paper I would use a thin backing paper such as printer paper. Cut 1 cm strips using a decorative/art paper cutter. Glue them on to the backing paper as tight as possible to each other. Alternate colors. Now you have a series of horizontal or vertical strips of paper on the backing paper. Once the strips are glued and the glue is dry bring out your paper cutter. Turn your paper 90 degrees and cut a bunch of 1 cm strips of paper. Put the strips down on a flat surface and play with the patterns by putting the strips side by side and sliding them back and forth. Try rotating random strips 180 degrees. You can make more strips and combine them. The possibilities are infinite. The best part Is the you don’t have to glue 1 cm squares one at a time. Take this idea to star bursts and rotate concentric circles. Star burst squares and so on. Glue the strips at to the backing paper at a 90 degree angle. Once you have a background with strips at a 90 degree angle cut the strips perpendicular to one edge. Depending on the width you have diamond shapes, parallelograms. Or cut concentric circles from the 90 degree strips. Use arcs from the circles in stead of the whole circle. Use watercolor paper as your canvas, make marks with your pen and add complementary pieces from all the you have made. Use your signature colors to create the artwork. Cover the entire canvas or not. Vary the shades and create depth of field. Vary the color of the backing paper and roughen the edges with a nail file on some or all the strips. Your canvas can be any size you want. The art will be unique to you. Enjoy!
