A Year of Doodles

Today I took my notebook to do some journal writing so my doodles are on notebook paper. I'm just posting the one I like best out of the bunch.

Why limit yourself to just pen and ink. Here I used crayons and opaque watercolor.

This was fun. Maybe he'll show up in one of my paintings someday.

After seeing a play with a beautiful redhead singing and playing the part of Maid Marion, I had to doodle her up.

I'm making four paintings with dancers so I wanted to doodle up some new ones. Here is one doodle that I already turned into a painting.

The Doodle the painting is based on. I didn't realize I doodled her over a palm tree background with the word dream under it. What a happy accident.
Hang on to your doodles. Document them on your computer or keep them on a file because you never know when they'll provide the inspiration for another project.

There will be 3 more paintings in the series that may or may not have dancers but I thought I should doodle up some new ones for inspiration.

Drawing cats is a lot of fun. And drawing them with a big red marker is even sillier. Keeping a stack of large index cards handy for doodling is working out really well for me.

This Italian Cypress Tree has always been one of my favorites, every since I helped my father plant a bunch of them when we moved to Sunnymead CA when I was a kid.

This started out as a doodle at a fast food place today. Then I remembered I had metallic pens and started coloring it in. I suppose I'll finish coloring it when I get around to it, but I think it's fascinating. Then again I'm easily amused. It's a lot more shiny in real life. Metallics don't scan all that well.

After I finished the Hub drawing above, I started drawing a valentine. I decided the hearts needed wings. Then I realized this drawing could be part of a 'make a valentine' article I'm writing. Metallic ink on red cardstock. Doodling on good paper with bold markers is a lot of fun. Don't limit yourself to pale gray pencils on newsprint.