Are you stuck in transition...between holidays...between seasons? You all know the feeling. Are you patiently waiting for all the new stamps; hearts and flourishes...flowers...and images hinting of springtime. Me too!
Horror of horrors...I found myself doodling yesterday...and trust me, I am not an idle person. Boy did that bring back memories as I examined the piece of paper in front of me. I am convinced that every person has an inherant 'doodle'. A pencil or pen concotion that magically appears without so much as a thought - so automatic that years later you find yourself staring at the same images you drew in junior high!
What can I say? My doodle is this weird, irregular shape, teardrop thing. It flows out of my pencil onto any surface without effort or thought. Years ago I could spend hours filling an entire piece of paper with these shapelets. Hmm, wonder if I can do something 'grown up' with it?
So let the experimentation begin!! I started with a white Inchie + Square (1-1/2" square) and filled it with pencil 'doodles'. To keep it manageable the plan is to color with 3 different Copic markers, all in a similar color family, but light to darker in color. Use the pointed end to carefully color in the pencil shapes.
Add the next darker color, only bit, and then blend by going back over it with the first marker.
Finish with just a dot of the third, darkest color.
Don't forget to color the solid core white edges.
Keep it simple. Let the colors and shapes speak for themselves by mounting the finished white Inchie + Square to a black Twinchie Square and then onto the front of a dark gray Inchie Note (card from the neutral set).
It's hard to resist playing around with color options - this one is in rose tones.
Got brave with this one and drew with a .005 Sakura Micron pen instead of pencil!
Anyway, the whole point of this is to demonstrate that creating inchie art should not be a painstaking or intimidating challenge. It should be as simple as recreating a doodle or pattern onto an Inchie Square (any of the 3 sizes!), coloring it and plunking it onto a card. It's all about having fun and making art. And forgive me, because now that I have released my inner doodle I suspect I will be making tons of 'artful inchies' in all colors and sizes!!
So give it a try and use this transition time to turn your favorite doodle into inchie art!!
I really like how this came out, and I love how you can extend the image onto the the edges - what a cool feature of your inchie bases!
Posted by: Juliet A | March 12, 2010 at 05:38 AM
Your doodles are super cool! What a great idea to doodle away on an inchie, I have to try this :)
Posted by: Etha | January 10, 2010 at 07:06 AM