Puttering and Tinkering
I need an enclosure card for a gift, and so begins an afternoon of relaxed puttering and contented tinkering fostered by eager scavenging that leads to serendipitous creative connections.
First, I sift and rummage and poke and scout to see what I might find by way of a squirreled-away art start whose time to shine will be now. 
Then, off to my stashes of all manner of paper for something with the right heft to be a card and the right tone to showcase the art it will support without stealing any of its thunder.
Next, over to my envelope collection to sift through for something just the right size.
After that, some tinkering with the art itself—adding delicate ink-scribbles, along with touches of intensification, highlighting, and brightening of colors using chunky Stabilo watercolor woodies, before folding, cutting, gluing, glazing, and assembling.
Putter, tinker, poke,
scribble, glaze, cut, and glue a
greeting card bespoke!
4.25 x 5.5″; acrylic, ink, and watercolor pencil on paper,
mounted on card stock
enclosure card opened flat to show back and front
2025
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12 responses to “Puttering and Tinkering”
Carol, greetings! Thanks for jumping into these lovely spring colors here with me and sharing your delight. Delight was the name of the game with every element of the process for this little card, and I take delight in the outcome, too, AND it’ll bring me delight to send the card along to its recipient : )
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Love your squirrel-way of making art!
Roseanne, thanks for your feedback and questions. The colors are what jumped out in my mind also when I bumped into them in one of my stashes. Probably 95% of my meandering black linework was done with my dominant hand but while holding my pen high up on the shaft and rotating the pen around randomly. Fun to think of my recipient’s possibly framing this little bit of an ode to spring!
Thank you, Sheila! I’m liking your observation: “so sunny and bright, a gift of delight!” Ta da! : )
