Just for Fun

This is a page from my moleskine notebook.   I hadn't done a collage in awhile & was digging through my paper scrap box yesterday ...

I used paper scraps and image cutouts, acrylic paints, colored pencil, a gel pen, and a Faber Castell Indian ink pen to complete the page.

Happy New Year

Awhile back I drew this cool coloring page for a charity coloring book.

Great news ... They got tons of submissions!
Not so great news ... They didn't have room for my drawing.

Well, I didn't want my hard work to go to waste, so I converted the drawing into a quick loading pdf file for you to download here.   Print a few for the kiddies ... it's fun to color!

Happy New Year! Happy Coloring!

Hooray for Anorak!

Over the Summer, I drew some "totems" to add to a giant totem pole at the scribble project.   Happily, the folks at Anorak magazine decided to publish a selection of the totems in their Winter issue.

Here are the two totems I submitted ... can you guess which one was selected for publication in Anorak?Click here to see the 2 page spread.


Go grab a copy for yourself!

Peace on Earth

A little doodle in the spirit of the season, with a taste of the 70's.   This is page 56 in my little moleskine notebook.   (I picked up a few funky lettering books on ebay to help broaden my approach to lettering.)

a couple more

I drew this last night after seeing Teesha Moore's "fun drawing lesson" on her blog.

It pretty well sums up how I was feeling all day, yesterday.

Now that I think about it, it is a pretty "oxymoronic" drawing.   It was depicting "BLAH", but then I went and added all the bright colors ~ so it really isn't "BLAH" anymore.

I'm in a better mood today, so I'll just take it easy & see where the day goes.


This other doodle is from earlier in the week.   Just a random doodle I drew in my little moleskine notebook.

I think I did a pretty good job of filling up my moleskine notebook this year.   I make quite a bit of art for other people, but hardly keep any of my own stuff.   So having made 52 pages of art (for myself) in that little notebook is quite an accomplishment.

Something Old

I think this drawing from 2002 was the first "pattern intensive" doodle I made. I guess some folks would call this a mandala ... I'm not sure it qualifies, but I like it.

Fun with Brown Paper 3

crazy kid ... another moleskine page doodle that started with a torn blob of brown paper.   Black Indian ink and white gel pens.

Next time I think I will plan ahead and scan the paper blob "pre-doodle", because it's always fun to see how the doodle evolved.

I have been looking around for some interesting doodle blogs to link in my sidebar ... it has been a challenge finding blogs with lots of doodles that are updated somewhat regularly.   If you've got a good one ~ send me the link!   I am a "pattern junkie".   I love crowded doodles with lots of characters & things going on.   I also love seeing doodled objects & unusual stuff.