Seven Trees

Last night's impressionistic painting was based on a doodle I did on the train coming home yesterday. It was scenery I saw along the tracks between Simi Valley and Chatsworth.

Snakehead

Another face.  I never know what is lurking in my creative mind.

Doodled Border

Ballpoint Pen on notebook paper

A border design I could use on stationary, a painting, or to frame a photo.

Friday and Saturday's Doodles

I just scanned Friday and Saturday's Doodles. Where does the time go?

Saturday's Doodle '4 Stars'

Friday's Doodle

This was another Lab from my Drawing book by Carla Sonheim.  I believe it's called Doodling on Steroids.  You pick 10 or 12 different drawing utensils and keep drawing until the paper is full.  Finally my sketchbooks are starting to look like the ones I've admired all these years.

Drawing Tools Used:
Black Sharpie
Old Green Felt Marker
Red and Purple Prismacolor Pencils
Silver Metallic Marker
Pencil
Blue Ballpoint Pen
Gold glitter gel pen (clear with gold flecks)
White gel pen
Double pointed green Sharpie marker

Frosty Lurking

This is what happens when I'm randomly doodling and a news clip comes on TV of the police knocking down a guy in a Frosty the Snowman costume.

This started out as a doodle, but then I just couldn't stop.  Then I thought it would look better with a watercolor wash. In this exercise, you pick 10 or 12 different drawing implements like pens, crayons, markers, pencils and so on, and use each one of them somewhere.  This forces you to break out of your comfort zone and you end up using nontraditional colors in places.

Trees and Cats

I got up early and went into doodle mode. I find that what I see in my environment sometimes ends up in my doodles.  Yesterday I took a photo of a tree that reminded me of Van Gogh's italian cypress trees, and my version ended up in a doodle, but I didn't put it all together in my mind until a few hours later. And now that I've written this I realize that just a few days ago I was telling my boyfriend about a man I used to visit as a child that had big old cypress trees that made a giant fence around his backyard.  And now I remember my parents also planted a row of them when I was a teenager along our driveway in Sunnymead CA.

Yesterday I drew a series of cats inspired by my new drawing book. Normally I wouldn't have thought to doodle using a giant red marker, but I've been more open-minded after getting that book. Here are two of my favorite cat doodles.

Busy Saturday in LaVerne CA

I took my sketchbooks to the SCA event today, so they are still out in the truck. I'll have to post the last few doodles tomorrow. Right now I need to rest and relax. The booth did well today. We even sold a gourd drum. And more arrows. And beeswax. And I got a painting finished. Excellent.