happy birthday tangles (string thing 52)

BLACK TILE, BROAD TIP UNIBALL SIGNO PEN

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WHITE TILE, .005 MICRON

Happy Birthday! Actually it's a good friend's birthday today, and I did these with her in mind; we share a love of beads and the Lotus Pod tangle here by Margaret Bremner got me going on bead-like dots.

[I can hardly wait to get a new camera with my next phone--hopefully coming in September...]

This is String Thing Challenge #52, in celebration of one year of that challenge's existence.  Also included here are Meringue, by Kelley Kelly, and Roscoe, by Vicki Bassett.  Plus a few other adornments.

I did the black with a broad Uni-Ball Signo Pen, and oh boy do I ever wish I'd had a fine tip.  But, ya make do with whatcha got, right?  I then decided to follow it with a virtually identical white tile and a narrow-tip (.005) Micron.

Meanwhile, this morning I went out for a morning coffee and some sketching; I produced the worst, I mean, truly, the worst sketch I've done in a long time.  I was intending to draw my plate, coffee mug, and the book next to them. 

It's hilariously bad, and I ain't showing it!  I was trying to sketch in the style of the phenomenal Andrea Joseph, who is teaching this week of Sketchbook Skool (SBS).  Look again at her work--she works only with ballpoint pen.  Yes, ballpoint pen.  I have a serious case of art envy here.

I'm behind on my classes with SBS, so she may have a video on how to sketch effectively with a ballpoint.  Too late for me!  LOL.  Seriously, I can only get better than this morning's disastrous attempt...and I will keep trying.  Live and learn.