Work In Progress

 

Loosely Goosey - Starting With A Shape

One of the ways I use to doodle when I was young was to draw a shape then try to make something out of that shape.  I decided to do that again today because it is great practice, and fun.  Today's shape was the great big yellow bell that became her dress.  

I also decided to not try and make it pretty.  Most of the drawings by other people that I like are far from perfect but for some reason I can't do that style, even though I love it!   I am in this box that says "that's not good enough, you have to do it better".  Of all the drawings over the last year, or more, I am only proud of 3 or 4... the rest, I want a "do-over".  ....  Well, NO!  I'm going to work on acceptance of the not perfect ON PURPOSE!  Do it loosey goosey, ON PURPOSE, and create a new style for myself.  I can do this!

No, I am not a mom... It was never on my bucket list.... But, she looked like a mom and I needed some words. :-)

 Another one.... It started with this shape:

And watch what happened:

All of the above was actually done with an App I just discovered, Sketch Club.  Not only does it have some nice drawing functions, it also records!  I have another one that does that but it is hard to control the speed...this one is a little bit better.  You can see I was learning!  The next step is to take it into some other package (?) and clean it up... you really can't do any modifications to the video with the app.

Playing With a New Paint

First, let me just say that this is yet another example of me starting with NO CLUE where I was going!  That's why so much of what I do, I feel like I need to start over and do it  "right".

The Goal:

Play with a brand of Acrylic paint (Golden) and Matte Medium.  I have never used either one so I had no idea how either one would react.  And I have to say, I don't love how they "act"  ... you can tell, I never was able to get a smooth blend ....  but I do love how vivid the colors are!  So, I choose to just say, THAT is the look I was going for! :-)

I started by folding a plain piece of card stock because I knew I wanted to trim around the bottom of the word "Believe".  That's it, that is the only "direction" I was going in.  Then I kept adding bits and pieces of doodles so I would have another place to try out a different color. Then I got tired of playing and just filled in the left side with a big glob of blue.  As I was looking at it I looked down and saw a 3-d Bee sticker in the self of my coffee table and decided to add it next to the leaf....Get it? Bee-leaf ?  HA!  I know, too corny... but isn't it also too cute (the bee I mean).  

Also, it looks like an envelope to me now so somebody is gonna get a FANCY letter from me one day!  Just add a little glue on the sides and flap, done! 

Trust Doodle

 

 

Our Jobs Colored

Yesterday's line doodles in color..

 

Our Jobs

 

This Is The Day....

Just more play...

 

Love Never Fails

 

It has been so long since I doodled I thought I'd hurry and do something before I went to sleep... and suddingly its 2:15 AM!

 

A Deal That REALLY IS A DEAL

I'm not certain you have picked this up about me yet... probably not.... but I tend to say what I think.  And, if I love something, I REALLY LOVE it and I want to spread the good word (and vice versa, but we won't go into that).  I want all my friends to know about it and get in on a good deal too!

WELL! Such is the case with AMAZON PRIME!  I have been using it for about seven months now and I have loved every minute of it!  If you take the time to bother reading this you WILL THANK ME, I PROMISE!  I'm excited about it today because yesterday I saved TONS in shipping and that excites me.

Yes, you have to pay $79 for a year, up front, but I have WAY more than made that back in benefits! And I will GLADLY pay it again in October.  

WHY????

You wouldn't believe all the benefits!

(first, you get to try it for 30 days FREE!  Do that just for the free shipping!)

1. "UNLIMITED Prime MOVIES and TV Shows "

It works much like Netflix and Hulu Plus (only without commercials!) ... each of those cost $7.99 a month, making their total for a year $95.88 (see, already saving) ... No, not every movie that Amazon sells is free to watch, but there are thousands that are!  And, you can watch them on any digital data device! TV, cell phone, Kindle, iPad, whatever.  

2. The next, most important (to me) benefit is that you get is FREE TWO DAY SHIPPING on almost everything your order!!  Just yesterday I place two different orders and they will both be here tomorrow!..  FREE SHIPPING!!  AMAZING!  And I order almost everything I buy from Amazon because I don't have to pay taxes or shipping!... and, the prices are usually better.  Like the book I show in the left column iPad for Artists: How to Make Great Art with Your Tablet
sells at my local Barnes and Nobel for $19.95 + tax = $21.54, I paid $9.46 TOTAL!  I bet I order something at least every other week. 

3.  A FREE Kindle Book each month.  Would you believe THIS is the reason I joined?!  And I use it the least.... but, the Hunger Games Series was available and I wanted to read them... and I did, for free!  No, you don't have to own a Kindle to take advantage of this one, they have a PC/iPad/Android app so you can read it on any device.

4. There are more things that I haven't bothered to learn about...like a 5 GB Cloud for storage. So, instead of using up all your valuable hard drive space on your iPad/Kindle/whatever, you store songs, movies, pictures, whatever there and access it through "the cloud"!  

Can You Hear Me Giggling?

I don't know what's up with me today but I decided to treat myself with some fun stuff!  None of this has anything to do with doodling...well, except maybe the last thing, but I am so excited I had to share.

I was on Pinterest and decided to look at my "I WANT" board and then to oblige ...

1. butter slicer, love it!  Love butter, HATE cutting it!  Problem solved.

     






2. An Egg Shaper, HOW FUN!!!  now my eggs will fit!  HA!  Just think, PERFECT scrambled egg sandwiches!  I LOVE, LOVE egg sandwiches but not so crazy about all the overlap and bits and pieces, problem solved:

  




3. This last thing was on the "I WANT" board but I ordered it a couple months ago and I won't get it until January :-(  The 3-D Doodler!  FUN!!!  Just wanted to show you what's coming. It was my first introduction to Kickstarter ... who knew?!