Sunday, February 12, 2012

Doodling. . . .

Do you ever doodle while talking on the phone, at church during the sermon, while you are listening to a lecture, watching television, etc.?  If you do, why not turn it into art.  Alisa Burke's book Sew Wild is a great start.  She gives many examples of doodling on canvas, fabric, etc.  On the sample below, I chose to doodle (using a permanent marker) all over a small stretched art canvas.  I had been doodling in just black and white but after talking to Jennifer (Jangles) Heynen who suggested adding color, I thought I would give it a try . . So I pulled out colored permanent markers, paint markers, watercolor crayons, and acryllic paints and "went to town" so to speak.  It is abolutely addicting.  I intend on doing more and using some Zentangles to fill in some spaces.  Will demo when complete.  This is my completed project ...

I decided to add a little bling and went through my scrapbooking supplies and found some specialty brads.  They work great on canvas.  Just cut a tiny spot, insert brad, and spread the back open.  I chose to fill in background with black
and painted the sides of the canvas with black.  I wanted to add a word so Bloom seemed appropriate.  I really enjoyed making this and will make many more.  I have made black and white doodle fabric and dyed with Rit dye.  As of right now, I found an old cabinet door, painted it white, and doodling it in a permanent black marker.  I will leave this one black and white.  Will blog about it when completed.
ALSO, I have quite a bit of OLD scrapbooking supplies and decided to go through them and recycle them in some way.  I got my husband to make me a picture frame out of some of his scrap wood.  I then painted and distressed it.  In my cache of supplies I found rub-ons and stickers and some really pretty paper.  I cut the paper and affixed it to a piece of foam board leftover from another project and proceeded to "decorate".  I added sticker quotes and glued on buttons (another of my favorites) for some added dimension.  Here is my finished project . . .


Be sure to check out Alisa Burke's book SEW WILD and her book CANVAS REMIX.  She is very creative and has a great blog . . .
alisaburke.blogspot.com
And Jennifer Jangles blogspot is always good . . .
jenniferjangles.blogspot.com

Start some doodling and always have FUN!!!

6 comments:

  1. Love, love, love this project. Your doodles are a bit fancier than mine. I'm going to have to give this technique a try!

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  2. I feel like I'm in Pre-k again...I just love to doodle and color! Thanks!

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  3. This looks like so much fun and it looks great too!

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  4. Beautiful Holley! The art teacher at OCES has students do a light wash over their finished drawings/paintings at times as a way to take care of miscellaneous white spots they may have missed in projects where they need to cover the entire surface. That technique may be helpful when doodling on a canvas. Thebfinished product pops w/o having to worry about every inch of the canvas. I'm so glad I discovered your blog. I see a trip to the craft store fir canvases in my future!

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  5. Beautiful Holley! The art teacher at OCES has her students do a light wash of paint over their finished drawings/paintings at times as a way to take care of miscellaneous white spots in projects where they need to cover the entire surface. That technique may be helpful in a doodling project like this one. The finished product pops without having to worry about every inch of the canvas. I may merge the two techniques. I'm so glad I discovered your blog! I see a trip to the craft store for a canvas in my future! Abby is going to love this project.

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    1. Thanks so much! Abby is about to have so-o-o-o much fun and have her own artwork to display, too! I do love the idea of the wash and will definitely give it a try! HAPPY NEW YEAR!

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