Print 'n' Doodle Notelets



My art/craft stuff has been in storage for a few months, but I've been missing it all so much I decided to get one box of stuff out and have a play with whatever was in it:  

 

There wasn't much good stuff in the box I chose, but there were some scrappy bits of paper which I'd used to try out printing shapes onto, so I just grabbed a pigment pen and doodled on top...

I also wanted to test out my new inkjet printer paper (specially for artwork) which I bought cheap in my local art shop, so I scanned the image and printed a couple of copies to see how it looked. It really does print beautifully, so I made notelets with the prints.

It's not much, but I'm pleased that at least I've made something!

Blue Sky Thinking...journal page

We went for a walk on the beach today. It was cold, but the sun was shining and the sky was so incredibly blue that I couldn't help feeling wonderfully cheerful and positive.  I wanted to make a journal page which captured the blueness of that sky, and the uplifting feeling it gave me. 

I found the perfect colour and painted a background onto Yupo.  Yupo isn't absorbent, so you can use a damp paintbrush to 'lift out' areas of paint, like this:

Then I drew in some cheerful floral-type doodles which I'd sketched a while ago.  I didn't add any other colours to distract from the blue.

I could have just added the journalling in black but decided to make the blue 'pop' even more by matting onto a black background and journalling in white.  Quick and easy, but I was pleased because it really does capture my feeling about that blue sky.

Doodletastic Friday!

Oops! I accidentally doodled the day away! The entire afternoon disappeared in a swirly haze of flowers and flourishes!