{VIDEO} a collaborative painting & GIVEAWAY with stephanie corfee

I am super excited to share today's Doodles Unleashed online book tour stop with you because I'm vising my new fabulous doodling pal, artist, designer and author of Creative Doodling and Beyond, Stephanie Corfee!! Every time I visit Amazon, I would see my book paired with hers as "Frequently Bought Together", so I ventured out to her website and found a vibrant, creative soul..instantly fell in LOVE with her artwork. It's colorful, inspiring and simply beautiful. So when I started planning my book tour, I sent her an email to ask her if she'd like to join in the party and she said YES!! We spoke on the phone for over an hour and it was like talking to an old high school pal.:) she's such a sweetheart! I love that art brings people together, I definitely have met wonderful people through sharing my art.  

Our books definitely go hand in hand. You will LOVE every page of Stephanie's book, it's full of creative doodling exercises, examples of her gorgeous artwork and lots of room to PLAY with pages you can practice your own doodles. It's a MUST HAVE for inspiration and great techniques.

So we brainstormed the idea of doing an East coast meeets West coast collaborative doodling project and I asked Stephanie to start with one of her fabulous painting techniques and film it. She sent me over the video and artwork...look at this gorgeousness...

We work in a very similar fashion, painting serendipitously, the brush dances across the page, getting lost in vibrant colors and mark-making. I loved watching Stephanie’s painting process and decided to incorporate her painting into my artwork. After you finish reading my blog, head on over to Stephanie's blog to hear more about her process and see her FAB, colorful artwork!!

a little about my creative process...I printed out Stephanie's painting on my inkjet printer and cut out free form shapes with a craft knife. Next up, I painted a piece of Strathmore Mixed Media 300 series paper with Creative Imaginations Luminarte Silks , let it dry, then used Collage Pauge Glossy to adhere the cut pieces to the painted surface. The Girlie Glam doodle was done with a size 1 round brush dipped in Speedball India Ink. More layers of paint were added...

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I put together a fun video to share our artwork...take peek at a time lapse of our doodling collab...techniques you'll find in our books. enjoy the inspiration!

 

++++++++++++Stephanie's doodle jumpstart card++++++++++++

Stephanie's doodle jumpstart---> DOODLE an imaginary bouquet of flowers from an aerial viewpoint...use your imagination, let the daisies be fuchsia and the lilies have zigzag stripes...your wonderland fantasy centerpiece.

Thank you Stephanie for sharing your lovely, creative self with all of us!! :) xoxo

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visit both our blogs for a chane to win our books!!

Stephanie and I are both giving away one copy of our doodling books. You have a chance to win both..leave a comment on my blog answering: What is your favorite tool to doodle with? Then head over to Stephanie's blog to leave a comment answering her fun question and check out her art! We'll each pick one winner at random. The giveaway closes on Saturday, March 10 at 12:00pm PT.  good luck! COMMENTS CLOSED.

Comments

[Kathie Maruska]

I'll try this again since the first comment never posted!

When I first saw your work I immediately thought of Stephanie Corfee! I loved your east coast meet west coast collaboration! AMAZING!!!!! Thank you for the inspiration to let loose. I have started playing around with mixed media art journaling and I'm in love! I am in love with a the best present from my hubby in which he purchased me various Sharpie paint markers! So in love ... I have to hide them from my twin boys! Ha! Thanks again for keeping the inspiration alive in me!

[Janet O'Connor]

Hi Traci, Thank you for this post and introducing me to Stephanie Corfee. I just watched your youtube video...what fun!!! You have me dreaming of Girly Glam :).

[MotherDana]

Wow these are beautiful!!
My favorite doodling tool, I actually have two, my Neocolors and my Pilot Varsity fountain pen. I end up using these both on everything, doodling, art journals, even my collage canvases :)
Thanks for all of the inspiration!
xoxo MotherDana

[Sarah Martin]

My favorite doodle tool is my good ol' crayola markers and colored pencils!

[Marie-Eve]

I love to doodle with sharpie's pens. They are everycolor and they are fabulous to work with !

[Sonya Espinoza]

My favorite doodling tool is a white out pen, as funny as it seems. It brings out some brightness when there is a lot of color

[Iris]

I loooove your collaborative art with Stephanie, thanks for having her on your tour!

Favorite doodling tool: at the moment they are my brown and red Pilot G-Tec-C4 pens.

[ElleCee]

Thanks so much for introducing me to Stephanie. I love this collaboration.

My favorite doodling tool is a paintbrush.

[Kat Schorr]

I'm a huge fan! Thanks for introducing me to Stephanie' work! What a beautiful collaboration! My favorite doodle tool is colored sharpies of varying thicknesses. My one year old daughter loves her oversized crayons :)

[Diana]

Gteat video! My favorite doodling tool is a Faber Castelle PITT pen.

[Debbie]

Wow.... Great video ! I use gel pens of any kind to doodle just love how my hand can glide across a page using them.

[KimMJ]

A big black copic marker along with a white signo pen...Thanx for the chance to win! :)

[Dulaine]

Hi. I am just embarking on this "Art Journaling" journey and have been so very inspired by your website and others'. I have asked some friends to meet with me a couple of times a week so that we can play and learn and create together. Because they are my necessary writing tool, I will be bringing my Zig Memory System dual tip markers. The tips last, and I love the fact that I can do both thick and thin lines and know the colours are exactly the same.

[judy applegarth]

Awesome video...my favorite pen in the Copic Multi liner. I can't wait to learn more stuff from ya!

[dianne gray]

my favourite tool to use when doodling would have to be ink. inks of all kinds and types.

[Sarah Barber]

Lovely video collaboration. Inspiring as always! My favorite doodle tool would have to be my Mark It! Sharpie markers. They come in so many fun colors!

[Sarah L]

My favorite is a broad white uniball signo, all over a dark acrylic background...teal, purple, mmmm...

[chel]

Any pen will do! Right now I am super fond of Bic Stic fine points. They are super inexpensive, and they work great on any kind of paper.

[Miriam]

My fav would have to be india ink :)

[muriel]

Thanks for introducing stephanie corfee. Collaboration in art is something I so love! My favourite tool to doodle is india ink but I also love my white correction pen and I doodle with lots of other tools.

[Sharon Bennett]

Thanx for introducing Stephanie. I have so many mark makers in my stash it is hard to say but right now I am loving the Faber Castell Gellatos and the Big Brush Pitt Pens.

[Jan]

Great video! My favorite tool to doodle with is any marker that is in my reach :-). I particularly love the colors of copic markers.

[joanne]

fantastic video -- love the collaboration -- lots of inspiration from both :0)

[Ruby Lynn]

Love your work! Any micro pen...various sizes, then any type of inks, water, silk, doesn't matter, even thread. :)

[BarbaraH]

OMG...love these books. Must have them both. I like to use sharpie on paper or tee juice marker on fabric.
Thanks for all the info on both books, not sure I can wait for the results of the giveaway.