More New Letters

Tried out some different patterns on these letters... the curly pattern in particular intimidated me a bit.  Plus I waited until I'd almost completed the letter to try it for the first time on the M, so if I jacked it up, I would've wasted a TON of time on that letter.  Luckily I liked how it turned out.  Then I had more fun doing the same pattern on the J. :)

I want to do a LOT more letters, but they take so freakin' long and I want to continue to enjoy drawing, not feel like it's a chore, so I might mix it up with non-letter drawings from time to time instead of cranking through all the letters all at once.  Whew!  That was one helluva sentence right there.  Total run-on.  Do I care?  Nope.  It's MY blog and I'll do what I want to!

New Letters, No Sales :(

Soooo... I still haven't sold a single drawing!  Business is BOOMING.  Obviously not.  I have sold a couple of sets of bottle cap magnets in the past month, but that's not all that exciting.  How hard is it to glue a magnet to a bottle cap?  Okay, I do a little more than that... I fill the cap with sealant and let it dry for a day or two and THEN glue the magnet to the hardened sealant so that the magnet's not lost down inside the cap, but seriously... anybody can do this.  Yet it's the one and only thing in my shop lately that anybody wants to purchase.  I want to sell the things that take me time and that I LOVE making.

I added a couple of new letters today: L and S.  I thought I was randomly picking letters, but it appears I've now made my four initials (first, middle, maiden, and last) without consciously meaning to.  Does that mean I'm self obsessed?  I didn't think so, but gravitating towards your own initials might possibly perhaps indicate that.  Oops.  Oh well.  Hey!  If you can't love yourself, why would anybody else want to??  Eh?  Eh?  Didn't think you had an answer to that one.  Yeah.
I'm thinking next I'll do O, H, E, I, R (in no particular order).  I would ask for requests, but nobody reads this blog!

For my ghost readers - here are my two newest letters:

Zentangle Letters!

I've now discovered that I love a form of drawing called "zentangle"... or would that be zentangling?  I'm new to it, so I don't know anything about it except that it looks cool, you must have a steady hand and extreme focus, and it takes FOREVER.  Normally I'm not a fan of things that take forever, but the awesomeness of this just completely overrides any thought of time.  I'll draw for an hour and think it was 15 minutes.  And really, this shit is beautiful.  Or maybe I'm just really full of myself.  Either way, I'm happy with it!! :)

As you can see, these are clearly letters.  I'm thinking they'll look cool as a unique and funky way to spell out a baby's name over a crib in place of those overused letter blocks hanging from ribbon.  Examples:

I don't know about the rest of the world, but I'm tired of seeing letter blocks hanging over cribs from cutesy ribbons.  I want something different!  (If I ever have a need for announcing a baby's name over a crib, that is.)  

The zentangle letters I'm drawing will be printed on 65 lb linen stock, which has a really cool texture to it.  They're 8 x 10, so perfect for framing in standard frames (no expensive frame jobs), and they're the perfect size for lining up in that empty wall space in a kid's room! 

Another way I'm thinking they'd be cool is to spell out the family name over the fireplace or other location OR a cool dorm room decoration... just initials or a full name on the dorm room wall.  Spiffy! :)  

Yeah, I'm trying to sell my art here, but I truly do believe these are awesome ideas and that the letters themselves are awesome... I definitely plan to use them in my home.

Can't go wrong with Dr. Seuss

Decided on a quote/saying to go with the weather-looking design from a couple of weeks ago!  Dr. Seuss.  Always a winner.  I wish I could have done a cool freehand calligraphy-type writing of it, but I can't quite figure that out yet (who knows if I ever will)... but the happy text with balls on the end works for me! :)

Who doesn't love birds?

Maybe not real, live birds... I understand people having phobias towards them.  They're cute from a distance I suppose, but they're really just needy little hunter/scavengers.  Although I do get excited about seeing them on my bird feeders.  It's like, "My bird feeders WORK, they really work!!"  Then I get to feel all awesome, thinking I've fed a bird family and saved them from certain starvation.

DRAWINGS of birds, however... who DOESN'T love those?  They're SO cute! (Enough all-caps words yet?)  Seriously though... those sweet little nursery prints of happy sparrows or bug-eyed owls are freakin' adorable.  I decided I must figure out how to draw some sort of bird myself.  

This would be my newest item in my Etsy shop, ThreeChickadeeLane (click on the ad on the right side of this page to go there).  Right now I only do 8x10 prints, but could possibly in the future be looking into 5x7 or little cards for sending friendly notes.  They have to be friendly notes though - no unfriendly notes shall be written on my cards!  My cards that don't exist yet.  And possibly never will.  We'll see.

Also, my 8x10 prints are printed on super heavyweight linen paper, which has a really cool looking texture to it, even from a distance.  Fabulous for framing!  Advertisement over.