Gelly Roll Call

 

As so often  happens, the day got away from me and right before I went to bed I realized I hadn't made anything today -- no art, no jewelry, nothing.  I had so much fun drawing Nin's portrait with my Gelly Roll pens yesterday that I decided to play some more with them tonight.  

Why a poison dart frog?  We recently took my sister-in-law to Tennessee Aquarium and my son Brandon (age 23 right now) went.  While we were there we saw a habitat with poison dart frogs of all sorts, and Bran and I had fun reminiscing, because when he was little he collected little plastic life-size PDFs.  We had fun pointing out "You had that one... and I think that one..."

Good times, good memories, and art before bed.  Hope you like him.

That's a Sexy Cat

I tinkered years ago with gel pens on black paper -- mostly the metallic, cheap kind.   Today, when my husband's kitty Nin-Nin did what he does every day and curled up on my art/writing desk while I journaled, I had an inspiration.  I wanted to know if I could draw him on black paper (he is pitch black with little white patches on his chest and belly... the purpose of these is to tempt you to touch them so that he can RAWR your hand).

So I got out the MUCH better gel pens that I own now -- Sakura Gelly Roll Pens -- and had a go at it. I'm fairly pleased with the result, though the "Souffle" pens don't work that well on this paper (the light blue background parts).  Or any paper, really... but I want to try them on photographs because I think the effect might be cool.