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Continue reading →: A Dash of Doodles – 15Hello! Here’s a recent zendoodle of mine – This doodling process was Zentangle-inspired, and like always, I used a gel pen for the drawing, and a couple of color-compatible oil pencils for the shading. This is one of those rare times when the scan has captured most of the shading…
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Continue reading →: Memories, DocumentedHello! Here’s a recent art journal spread from me – I’ve been struggling lately with making art in my A6 journal. Most of what I made ended up unfinished since I kept getting stuck midway. I continued to move on to the next page, hoping that something would work, and…
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Continue reading →: Welcoming 2026Hello, and Happy New Year! I’m welcoming 2026 here by sharing a card with you. I made the card for my sis–we decided to make New Year projects as part of our Inspiration Station challenge. (In this challenge, we come up with themes for ourselves to inspire our individual projects.)…
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Continue reading →: Meditative Mandalas – 5Hello! Here’s my latest mandala art – I’m not sure why, but I really like this one. The vibrant green ink is just ah-maaazing, of course, but the colored-in and white areas seem more balanced to me in this one. Could that be why it holds my attention? I really…
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Continue reading →: Happy HolidaysHello! It’s the first Friday of the last month of 2025, and that means a new challenge is on at Creative Artiste Mixed Media. (Next month, however, the design team will be on an end-of-year break, so there won’t be a challenge.) The challenge this month is Anything Mixed Media…
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Continue reading →: A Dash of Doodles – 14Hello! Here’s a recent Zentangle-inspired doodle of mine – I used a gel pen from my new Hauser set for this doodle. This blue is brighter than the first one that I’d tried last time, and I quite enjoyed the therapeutic drawing process with this pen too. The ink quality…
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Continue reading →: A Birdie MeetupHello! It’s the first Friday of this month, and that means we have a new challenge at Creative Artiste Mixed Media. As always, the theme for the challenge is Anything Mixed Media Goes, and you’ll need to use 3 or more mediums in your project. For my inspiration project, I’m…
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Continue reading →: Happy DiwaliHello! It’s Diwali today, and I wish you a joyous and prosperous future ahead. I finally got around to trying out my new silver and gold gel pens–I made a Diwali ATC trio. I created mandala-inspired designs to represent a paper lantern, a fireworks display, and the glow of an…
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Continue reading →: Grow, Change, EvolveHello! It’s a new month already, and today’s the first Friday of the month, which means a new challenge is up at Creative Artiste Mixed Media. As always, the theme for the challenge is Anything Mixed Media Goes, with 3 or more mediums in use. For my inspiration project, I…
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Continue reading →: Mixed Media Happy BirthdayHello! It’s the first Friday of a new month, which means we have a new challenge on at Creative Artiste. As always, the theme for the challenge is Anything Mixed Media Goes, and you’re expected to use 3 or more mediums. For my inspiration project, I’m showing off a birthday…
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