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---> 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.
Here's a colorful art journal background with a winter palette including shades of blue with a little pop of bright red and fuchsia color. Paint your favorite winter colors in your journal!
ART JOURNAL technique: TRANSPARENCY monoprints
To create this background roll out turquoise paint onto a transparency with a soft rubber brayer then doodle over it with White Tulip Slick dimensional paint. {TIP} work fast because the paint dries quickly. You can also mix a little Acrylic Glazing Liquid to extend the drying time of your paint. Place the painted side of the transparency onto a piece of black construction paper, rub it lightly to transfer the paint then scratch marks into it with the back of the transparency with the end of a paint brush and skewer. Let dry. Apply paint with a foam brush to handmade stamps and found tools press onto the background then repeat stamp patterns.
Digital Art Journaling technique {top photo}---> Leverage your art to create a digital journal image. Take a photo or scan the art journal page, then import it into your favorite photo altering program. The photo above was imported into Photoshop CS5. A layer of text "Winter Wonder" is placed over the photo then I added snowflake and flower doodles drawing with my Wacom Pen Tablet. Explore more digital art journaling techniques in my new book Doodles Unleashed.
I created a color palette and patterns using colourlovers from a photo of my art journal background. click here to download a 1600px version of my winter wonder stripes.arrows.zigzag pattern above {right click & save image as}. visit my colourlovers profile to see my collection of palettes and patterns.
It's WEEK THREE of my Doodles UNLEASHED Strathmore online workshop! The new video lesson was posted today.
Stylized faces part one: colorful backgrounds The focus of this lesson is preparing backgrounds and collage paper for a mixed media painting using different mediums. We start with graffiti layered letters then paint a colorful painted background using found tools. There is also a bonus lesson that teaches how to create a doodle collage paper to prepare for creating stylized faces next week.
Mixed media techniques covered: doodling with a brush printing with handmade stamps layered personal graffiti painting with found tools
Supplies DecoArt Artist Acrylics palette Golden Acrylic Glazing Medium Collage Pauge Derivan Matisse Gesso Speedball Super Black India Ink Misc pens/markers - Sakura Permapque pens, sharpie chisel tip & fine markers Brushes - script liner, misc. flat & round paint brushes Stencils - found tools, plastic baskets, sequin waste, paint bottles water container and painting smock
You can still register for FREE and watch the preview video here.
Today is all about holiday inspired art journaling backgrounds! Have you been spending time working in your art journal during the holiday season? Here are a few art journal backgrounds I created inspired the traditional "red+green" christmas colors with a litle twist and my holiday nouveau palette.
What colors are you inspired by this holiday season? What shapes are you doodling? What photos are you incorporating? What are you collecting? What are you writing about?
artJOURNALING daily is back with a whole new set of inspiration posts!! Today is all about turquoise +red...one of my FAVE color combinations.
What are you favorite color combos?
These FIVE colorful backgrounds show a variety of techniques from color scraping, printing with a needlepoint canvas stencil, collage & paint to scribbling with markers. Experiment with your favorite tools and create turquoise + red backgrounds. Click on the photos for more technique info.
artJOURNALING daily INSPIRATION...a journal page from 2003. I always love to rummage through my old art journals to see what I was feeling, thinking and creating at a particular point in my life.
11.26.2003...a few of my thoughts that day...
i'm on my way...this is my YEAR! I'm vending at Artfest 2004!!
sometimes I feel lost...I want to be in LOVE.
eyes are the key to the soul.
who am I?
...an artist...a creative soul...a free spirit
...business woman...visionary...teacher..
{art technique}
paint page with watercolor or water-down acrylic
draw faces...write about your day..
write words that describe YOU..
i've used a dip pen and india ink to write on the page similar to the video here and the page from january twentieth.
I make handmade stamps from old postcards, manila folders and found objects. I cut my stencils with scissors or for more detailed ones like flowers I free form draw with an Xacto blade to cut the design. here are a few jumpstarts and ideas for you to create lovely PRETTY prints in your art journal!
experiment with printing on paper towels. I detail the process in my book and talk more about my printed papers in this video. I HEART letter stencils, geometric stamps, flower & heart stencils and use chipboard shapes for painting.
one of my favorite tools is the brayer. spray through laser cut cardstock or plastic stencils then turn over the stencil and take a print with a brayer.
burn designs into craft foam to create a unique printing plate. roll paint over the printing plate and turn over onto paper and burnish with a brayer. spray through hand cut stencils
cut shapes out of self adhesive craft foam to make handmade stamps.
I collect chipboard letters in all fonts & sizes and create alphabet stamps by adhering them to adhesive fun foam. another favorite tool...my collection of architectural green stencils.
cut textured grunge board and glue it to a cardboard background. roll out paint onto a sheet of acrylic plexiglass and make monoprints
be creative...there are so many interesting tools and textures around your work space. start making your very own stamps and stencils....use them to make PRETTY prints!
p.s. have you checked out the amazing art journaling artwork in the gallery...just FAB!!
For today's artJOURNALING daily prompt I created colorful backgrounds inspired by vintage pattern photos. Using elements in each of the photos, I quickly painted and sketched patterns on my pages.
I used a combination of Copic markers, Sharpies, Permapaques and Koi Water Colors. Experiment with your favorite mark making tools to create colorful backgrounds! check out all the FABULOUS art journal pages in the flickr group. join us today!!
