Early Morning Pen workout

I bought this paper because of the name "cucumber mint. It sounded so summery. This piece is expanding on the Masterpiece flourishing style taught at Mike Sull's last workshop. Love the Bickham style.

Peace flourish

Expanding more of the Masterpiece Flourishing techniques. This piece is one of 12 for a hand bound year long collaborative book project. This piece was done with Spectralite, Best bottle ink and watercolours.

Ames' style title flourish

Expanding on techniques from Michael Sull's Masterpiece flourishing class.

Video clip edited by Holly

Renaissance Lady

I had a chance in April to study with Debbie Thompson Wilson. The class was called Medieval Faces. Lots of fun. If only there were more hours in the day!

Flourish for Lily

Gouache, spectralite gold, prismacolor and hot foil.

Heart Flourish

Name flourish

It's been a long time since I posted, but here is one of my recent flourishes.

Merry Christmas Flourish

Best wishes for a very Merry Christmas. I hope to spend more time on the blog in the new year.

October Greetings!

Acrylic inks on black cardstock. I will post more images after the Spencerian Saga.

More from Class

These were fun projects.

Celtic Illuminations

Not my favourite period, but here is some work from the class.

Gothic Period Illuminations

More from Debbie's class.

Illumination class

Here are my renaissance illuminations from a wonderful week spent with Illuminator Debbie Thompson Wilson from Guelph, Ontario.

Illuminated Letter T

Having fun with an Owen Jones initial. I am off to an illumination class in two weeks. I can hardly wait. This initial is done with Brian Walker's gesso recipe.

Missing Iampeth this year!

Just created this flourish for my Iampeth friends who are enjoying the conference.

New Name Flourish

Created for an etsy customer.

Etsy Offerings

Christmas Bird Flourish

Merry Christmas to all my blog friends. This bird was done on cardstock with Bleedproof White and gouache.

Illumination Class

This was my favourite piece from the illumination class. I have been gilding and painting ever since. More images to come.

Illumination Class

This was one of the rabbits I painted in class.

Illumination Flora and Fauna class

Last Sunday I had the opportunity to study illumination techiques with Debbie Thompson Wilson. This was our first project of the morning.

Zentangle Dragonfly

This zentangle became a dragonfly. The possibilities are endless.

Zentangle Holly

In response to the Byhand artist discussion, I am posting two images of Zentangles I did in 2004 after their lauch at an Iampeth convention. They are done quickly and much like flourishing, begin to take on a life of their own. It is a very relaxing and meditative exercise.

Website coming soon!

I am working on getting my website ready. It should be up soon. In the meantime, I hope you enjoy my blog and I will try to get more images up here as well.

Recent flourish

Bleedproof white and Twinkling H20's on cardstock

Thank You Note

Dr. Martin's Bleedproof White, Twinkling H20's and Prismacolor on Crane's stationary.

Offhand Flourish

McCaffery Ivory Ink and Twinkling H20's

For Tina

McCaffery's Ivory, and Gouache on cardstock

Graceful Envelope: Honorable Mention 2007

Technical Pen and Watercolor Pencil on Linen Envelope.

Monogram

McCaffery's Ivory Ink and Gouache.

Birthday Card

Prismacolor and McCaffery's Ivory Ink.

Illuminated Letter B

Lemon Gold, Gouache and Watercolor.

Holly's Rock Garden

Prismacolor Flourish

Adding some colored pencil to offhand flourishing.

Sumi Bird Flourish

This was done with Sumi Moon Palace Ink. I was trying the ink out to see how it reacted to offhand flourishing.

Offhand Flourish

A recent bird flourish I was working on.

Illuminated Initial

This letter was done last weekend at Fieldcote Museum in a class taught by Debbie Thompson Wilson. Several of the Hamilton Calligraphy Guild members attended.