Artwork - Structured Doodles

Silver Tree at Night
West Jordan, UT
March 2015
Zentangle-style drawing.
2.5" x 3.5" Artist Trading Card, Crayola Pip-Squeaks dark blue marker, & silver Sakura Gelly Roll Metallic pen.

Tree-Shroom Houses
West Jordan, UT
March 2015
Drawing inspired by Jarduli paintings see on YouTube.
2.5" x 3.5" Artist Trading Card, Sakura Pigma Micron pens (01 and 005) & Prismacolor Col-erase pencils.

Bioburden Meetings (#2)
West Jordan, UT
March 2015
Zentangle-style drawing done at work during a series of meetings which required listening more than seeing.
2.5" x 3.5" Artist Trading Card & Sakura Pigma Micron pens (01 and 005)

White Pen Test
West Jordan, UT
April 2015
Zentangle-style drawing.
2.5" x 3.5" Artist Trading Card (Black Board) & uni-ball Signo pen (white)

Bioburden Meetings (#3)
West Jordan, UT
March 2015
Zentangle-style drawing done at work during a series of meetings which required listening more than seeing.
2.5" x 3.5" Artist Trading Card & Sakura Pigma Micron pens (01 and 005)

Bioburden Meetings (#4)
West Jordan, UT
June 2015
Zentangle-style drawing done at work during a series of meetings which required listening more than seeing.
2.5" x 3.5" Artist Trading Card & Sakura Pigma Micron pens (01 and 005)

Six in Four
West Jordan, UT
November 2015
Zentangle-style drawing.
2.5" x 3.5" Artist Trading Card & Sakura Pigma Micron pens (05)

Thanksgiving to New Year's
West Jordan, UT
Dec 2015
Zentangle-style drawing started on Thanksgiving day and finished near New Year's.
2.5" x 3.5" Artist Trading Card & Sakura Pigma Micron pen (01)

Snowflake
West Jordan, UT
January 2016
Zentangle-style drawing, done for company snowflake-making contest (I know, weird, right?).
9" x 12" drawing paper cut down to ~7" & Sakura Pigma Micron pens

Snowman
West Jordan, UT
January 2016
Zentangle-style drawing, triggered by company snowflake-making contest.
9" x 12" drawing paper cut down to ~7" x 10" & Sakura Pigma Micron pens and a gold Uniball Signo

Bioburden Meetings (#5)
West Jordan, UT
February 2016
Zentangle-style drawing done at work during a series of meetings which required listening more than seeing.
2.5" x 3.5" Artist Trading Card & Sakura Pigma Micron pen

Ghost Tangle
West Jordan, UT
April 2017
Zentangle-style drawing done using a fountain pen and an "invisible" ink - only visible under UV light.
2.5" x 3.5" black Artist Trading Card & Noodler's Blue Ghost

2 Fountain Pens and a Sakura Pigma Micron
West Jordan, UT
May 2018
Zentangle-style drawing started at work and finished much later at home.
2.5" x 3.5" Artist Trading Card, Sakura Pigma Micron pen (black), Waterman Audacious Red (using a Zebra G nib in a Jinhao x750), Colorverse Warped Passages (in Pilot Vanishing Point Decimo EF).

Tokiwa-Whitman / Walt-Matsu
West Jordan, UT
February 2019
Zentangle-style drawing done at work during a series of meetings which required listening more than seeing.  The colors are all off - it's very difficult to capture murky green colors.
2.5" x 3.5" Artist Trading Card, Sailor Tokiwa Matsu ink (bottom half of card, in Wing Sung 601, EF), and Organics Studio Walt Whitman Leaves of Green ink (top half of card, in Pilot Vanishing Point, stub).

BronzeTangle
West Jordan, UT
August 2021
Zentangle-style drawing.
2.5" x 3.5" Artist Trading Card, Robert Oster Bronze ink in Kaweco Sport fountain pen, fine nib.

Emma
West Jordan, UT
June 2020
Zentangle-style drawing.
2.5" x 3.5" Artist Trading Card, Rohrer & Klingner sketchINK Emma ink in Pilot Penmanship fountain pen, extra-fine nib.

Radiant Doodle
West Jordan, UT
March 2023
Zentangle-style drawing.
2.5" x 3.5" Artist Trading Card, Waterman Radiant Pink ink in Pilot Kaküno fountain pen, extra-fine nib.

2 Kings 4:1-7
West Jordan, UT
November 2023
Zentangle-style drawing.
2.5" x 3.5" Artist Trading Card, Nemosine Solar Storm 1859 ink in Pilot Prera fountain pen, with a Penmanship extra-fine nib.

This drawing was done after InesF on the Fountain Pen Network presented us with an amphora-inspired invitation.  My mind went immediately to two Old Testament stories involving jars or vessels - the story about the widow filling many vessels from a single pot of oil inspired this drawing.  I considered trying to draw oil flowing from the top jar into all the others, but didn't like the look.  Turns out I find the completed work too "busy" and should have left either the background or the jars blank, or used another color for one.  Regardless, here it is. :)

1 Kings 17:8-16
West Jordan, UT
November 2023
Zentangle-style drawing.
2.5" x 3.5" Artist Trading Card, Pilot Mixable Colour Black, Robert Oster Gold Antiqua (flour / meal, oil, sticks at the bottom), Diplomat Pine Tree (alternating line pattern) inks in Pilot Kaküno EF (Gold Antiqua) and Pilot Prera fountain pen, with a Penmanship extra-fine nib.

This drawing was done after InesF on the Fountain Pen Network presented us with an amphora-inspired invitation.  My mind went immediately to two Old Testament stories involving jars or vessels - the story about the widow who fed Elijah first and whose meal and oil didn't run out until the drought ended inspired this drawing.  I didn't know how to draw them not running out, so I drew them overflowing.  The circles and swirls under the vessels are meant to represent a stack of sticks, looking at the end grain.  The alternating lines in the background are just to fill in the space, they have no particular meaning.

There Will Be Ice
West Jordan, UT
January 2024
Zentangle-style drawing.
2.5" x 3.5" Artist Trading Card, Pilot Mixable Colour Turquoise, diluted to about 1 part water to 3 parts ink, in a Pilot Kakuno, EF.

This drawing was done after InesF on the Fountain Pen Network presented us with the prompt "There Will Be Ice".  I decided to go the literal route and draw an ice cube tray.

*If you're so young that you don't know what an ice cube tray is, get off my lawn! ;)