Santa Helps Out

Stick to what you know, Santa!  

Just a quick little cartoon in my composition notebook. 
Drawn with various Indian ink pens, colored with watercolor paint using a waterbrush pen.

Scribble Doodles: Holiday Wreath

Oh yes, I am still playing with my Scribble Doodles! books.  This is a page from my Scribble Doodles Christmas book. 

I have been working so much lately, it felt good to just take an hour off and make something goofy.  

To see more pages from my Scribble Doodles! books, just click the "scribble doodles" tag below.

Art-a-thon Challenge Hunt Weekend

Had a blast this weekend at the Art-a-thon Challenge Hunt over at ATCsForAll.com!   I finally took some time off to make some art and play a bit.   The weekend was all about getting together with other artists and making and trading art - participating in challenges and just having a creative fun time.

Above is my favorite card from the weekend.  I made it for a 3 word challenge: porcupine, desert, heart.  Indian ink pens and colored pencils.

I also made a Zombie poetry ATC (Artist Trading Card 2-1/2" x 3-1/2") for a "found poetry" challenge.

And a Zombie postcard (6" x 4") for a trade at Swap-bot.

I later filled in the Zombie thought bubble ... I had too many ideas (nice to "meat" you)(would love to have you for dinner) etc ... so I took suggestions and went with "LET'S do LUNCH".

I made this Kitty ATC for a blind drawing challenge.  I thought he would come out a bit funkier, but I draw cats so much that they just about draw themselves.  I love doing blind drawing.

The last ATC I made was this mushroom ATC.  I wove strips of paper for the background.

Over the weekend, I made 5 inchies, 8 ATCs, and 1 postcard.  I haven't made that much art during a weekend in years!

Composition Book Doodles

I have been filling up my composition notebook with doodles and blurbs on a regular basis.  Here are some of my favorites:

1) A duck I see often at Piedmont Park.  He has something wrong with his tongue that makes it stick out all the time.  Otherwise he seems to be getting along fine.
2) Just some folks I saw at the park.  A 20-something-ish young man walking a dog, with an older woman (mom?) walking behind carrying a bright pink baggie of poo (I presume, from the way she was carrying it.).
3) Doodle inspired by a particular shoe seen during the Olympics.
4) Ed Emberley style thumbprint kitties.
5) Doodle inspired by something I saw.
6) Monkey face inspired by Carla Sonheim's "Drawing Lab for Mixed Media Artists"
     Drawing Lab 7: Monkey Business.
7) "Jan in the Pan" from the movie "The Head that Wouldn't Die", which I was watching at the time.
8) Ed Emberley style thumbprint mice.
9) Doodle inspired by a woman I saw at a Walmart.  She was riding an electric scooter and dragging the cord behind her like a tail.
10) A spider web I noticed.
11) Ed Emberley style thumbprint dogs.

It's a lot of fun to look back through the composition book & helps me to remember more of the day to day things that occured over the summer.

ICAD - Index Card A Day Challenge: Days 59 60 and 61

ICAD Day 59: hopscotch - colored pencils and PITT pens.

ICAD Day 60: sorbet - colored pencils, PITT pens, and a paint pen.

ICAD Day 61: path - colored pencils, PITT pens, and a paint pen.
 
That's all folks!  I have completed the ICAD challenge - and I did it on time.  Hooray!

More info about ICAD can be found here: http://daisyyellowart.com/icad-base/
Be sure to visit the Flickr ICAD group to see what others have created!    

ICAD - Index Card A Day Challenge: Days 57 and 58

ICAD Day 57:stickers - acrylic paint, PITT pen, paint pen and stickers.

ICAD Day 58: graffiti - Collage of clippings, PITT pens and paint pen.

More info about ICAD can be found here: http://daisyyellowart.com/icad-base/
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ICAD - Index Card A Day Challenge: Days 54 55 and 56

ICAD Day 54: aquarium PITT pens and glitter glue.

ICAD Day 55: Olympics - PITT pens.

ICAD Day 56: texture or text - colored pencil rubbings and stamping.

More info about ICAD can be found here: http://daisyyellowart.com/icad-base/
Be sure to visit the Flickr ICAD group to see what others have created!  

ICAD - Index Card A Day Challenge: Days 51 52 and 53

ICAD Day 50: purple - collage from printed papers, clippings, PITT pens and paint pen.

ICAD Day 51: staircase - PITT pens.

What walks down stairs, alone or in pairs

and makes a slinkity sound?

A spring, a spring, a marvelous thing!

Everyone knows it’s Slinky.

It’s Slinky, it’s Slinky,

It’s fun, it’s a wonderful toy.

It’s Slinky, it’s Slinky,

It’s fun for a girl or a boy.

ICAD Day 52: fortune - PITT pens.

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ICAD - Index Card A Day Challenge: Days 49 and 50

ICAD Day 49: Super Hero - PITT pens and colored pencil. 
There's no need to fear! Underdog is here!

ICAD Day 50: Paisley - PITT pens.

More info about ICAD can be found here: http://daisyyellowart.com/icad-base/
Be sure to visit the Flickr ICAD group to see what others have created! 
 

ICAD - Index Card A Day Challenge: Days 45 through 48

ICAD Day 45: Word Play - PITT pens.

ICAD Day 46: Lighthouse - PITT pens.

ICAD Day 47: Monochromatic - Collage of printed papers and clippings, with punches, doodling, paint pen and glitter glue.

ICAD Day 48: (off-theme) Christmas in July - Collage of printed papers and clippings, with punches, doodling, and fibers.

More info about ICAD can be found here: http://daisyyellowart.com/icad-base/
Be sure to visit the Flickr ICAD group to see what others have created! 

ICAD - Index Card A Day Challenge: Day 44

ICAD Day 44: Rainbow Making Machine - PITT pens.

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ICAD - Index Card A Day Challenge: Days 41 through 43

ICAD Day 40: Latitude and Longitude - PITT pens and colored pencils.  If you put the latitude and longitude shown at the top of the card into a map online and zoom way in, you will see this scene.
You can try it out here: http://www.latlong.net/Show-Latitude-Longitude.html

ICAD Day 41: Yellow - Collage of printed papers, magazine clippings, pen and paint pen doodles.

ICAD Day 42: Mint - PITT pens and colored pencils.

More info about ICAD can be found here: http://daisyyellowart.com/icad-base/
Be sure to visit the Flickr ICAD group to see what others have created! 

ICAD - Index Card A Day Challenge: Days 38 through 40

ICAD challenge : my index card for Day 38 : Folk Art - PITT pens.

 ICAD challenge : my index card for Day 39 : Lens - PITT pens and colored pencils.

 ICAD challenge : my index card for Day 40 : Surf Board - PITT pens.

 More info about ICAD can be found here: http://daisyyellowart.com/icad-base/
Be sure to visit the Flickr ICAD group to see what others have created!

ICAD - Index Card A Day Challenge: Days 36 and 37

ICAD challenge : my index card for Day 36 = Prism : PITT pens

ICAD challenge : my index card for Day 37 - Meditation : PITT pens.

More info about ICAD can be found here: http://daisyyellowart.com/icad-base/
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ICAD - Index Card A Day Challenge: Day 33 - 35

ICAD challenge : my index card for Day 33 : Magic - Sharpie and colored pencils.

 ICAD challenge : my index card for Day 34 : Statue of Liberty- PITT pens.

ICAD challenge : my index card for Day 35 : Sunflowers - PITT pens and paint pen.

More info about ICAD can be found here: http://daisyyellowart.com/icad-base/
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ICAD - Index Card A Day Challenge: Day 32

ICAD challenge : my index card for Day 32 : Zodiac - PITT pens and metallic Sharpies.

More info about ICAD can be found here: http://daisyyellowart.com/icad-base/
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ICAD - Index Card A Day Challenge: Days 28 - 31

ICAD challenge : my index card for Day 28 : Cat - PITT pen doodle.

ICAD challenge : my index card for Day 29 : Aqua collage - printed papers, clippings, punches and paint pen.

ICAD challenge : my index card for Day 30 : Trivial Pursuit - paint and pen.

ICAD challenge : my index card for Day31 : 100 - Just circles drawn with randomly selected pens and markers.

More info about ICAD can be found here: http://daisyyellowart.com/icad-base/
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ICAD - Index Card A Day Challenge: Days 26 and 27

ICAD challenge : my index card for Day 26. "Space Invaders" - Cross stitch on plastic canvas with PITT pen doodles and a bit of silver Sharpie.

ICAD challenge : my index card for Day 27. "Motel" - based on the motel in "the Simpsons".
Colored pencils and PITT pens.

ICAD - Index Card A Day Challenge: DayS 24 and 25

ICAD challenge : my index card for Day 24.  Magenta collage.

 ICAD challenge : my index card for Day 25. Song lyrics by Cat Stevens.


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ICAD - Index Card A Day Challenge: Day 23

ICAD challenge : my index card for Day 23.  PITT Indian ink pens and colored pencils.

More info about ICAD can be found here: http://daisyyellowart.com/icad-base/
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ICAD - Index Card A Day Challenge: Day 22

ICAD challenge : my index card for Day 22.  Colored pencils on black paper (attached to an index card, of course).

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ICAD - Index Card A Day Challenge: Day 21

ICAD challenge : my index card for Day 21.  PITT pens and Sharpie white paint pen.

image key:  
coffee : I drink about 7 cups of coffee each day.  All home brewed.  The coffee mug pictured reads "The ONLY person who Really Knows what's going on."  I was given this as a gift by my then boss.  (It was so true.)
Quaker bars : The last pack from a box of Quaker Breakfast Flats.  This was a freebie box from my local Kroger store. (Hooray! for freebie Friday coupons!)
cereal :  my special mix of 1/2 bran flakes and 1/2 Great Grains cereal with Silk Vanilla Soy milk.
grapes :  they were red seedless grapes and they were good.
melon :  seedless water melon - (Warning! may contain the occasional seed.)
veggie dog :  Smart dog on a whole wheat bun with mayo, ketchup and tons of onions.
pops : one chocolate fudge pop and one banana popsicle.  (my go-to dessert)

More info about ICAD can be found here: http://daisyyellowart.com/icad-base/
Be sure to visit the Flickr ICAD group to see what others have created!