Doodles, Sketches, and Zen-Neuro

 My collection of creative things since the last post. Some are just squiggle girls, who just flowed out of my ink pen/marker, some are in Ebony pencil from photos, and the last two are zen doodles in mixed media, and they are in different sketchbooks, some lightly textured and one really smooth. The large 12" x 12" one won't fit in my scanner, so I had to make photos, which don't turn out nearly as well and for some reason the whites look gray. :/

I usually just do faces or busts, but this week I added bodies just for practice, and I need a LOT more of it.

This one is from an online photo with an Ebony pencil, and was really a challenge for me. I added a warm B/W filter. The background and face lights are very white actually. The translation between my camera, my editing, and my blog gets confused somewhere along the line, and I can't figure it out. :( Same with the one below.

This one is referenced from one of my favorite original photos of me and my Granny. I was wearing my Hop-A-Long Cassidy gun and holster. We are actually standing behind an old model car (which was new at the time). I didn't worry about a likeness, and my face is in shadow from a nearby tree. I had polio when I was two, so one knee being lower than the other is not a mistake. I want to try this one again at some point.

A zen-neuro doodle that I spent at least four, maybe five sessions on. Again, the background should be very white. I started out with the neuro doodle square in the corner, then added the tree trunk, and then filled the spaces. Good for calming my mind and relaxing my body.

This is one that I posted a while back. I was trying something different and I used a Sanguine Pitt brush pen. I've never liked it, so I was flipping through my sketch book a couple of days ago and decided to take the large end of my Zig Writer marker and do this (below) to it. I like it much better!

Anyway, that's it for now! Just a hodge podge of marker/pencil ramblings that gave me an immense sense of pleasure!

So far, I am keeping up my physical therapy for my back/hip at home, and hubby is still doing it with me. It takes us about an hour, but so far it's helping both of us, so it's worth it.

The days get by so fast, it's unreal! I can't believe October is already at the end and daylight savings time is back. Doesn't seem like it's been five minutes since Christmas, and it's almost here again. Yikes!

Thanks for visiting! Let's count our blessings every day, because we still have many, despite what's going on around us.