more of the same

 

I actually tried to spend some time in my art room this past week but didn't get through more than a little superficial cleaning. We're in the middle of a 100 degree plus heat wave and it's still way too hot indoors. I'm determined to enjoy these last six weeks or so of summer but I have to admit that I'll be thrilled to get back into my art room and back into the swing of freer art making! Slinging paint and paper and fabric with wild abandon--I've almost forgotten what it is like! But for now, I'll have to be content with my doodling journal and pens. It meets that desperate need to be doing something creative, but isn't near as satisfying.

 

 

For fun, I tried some in blue but think I'll stick with the black from now on.

 

 

I'm looking forward to getting some color on these soon, but first I have to finish up a few books I've started and have been dragging on for too long now, too sad to see them go. I have a love/hate relationship with finishing a great book. I usually go into a kind of mourning for a few days from not having my newly made friends with me all the time. This time it's particularly hard for me to finish that last chapter because I already know how the book ends and the imprisonment, concentration camps and death that await me and the real-life hero of my story. But--oh!--what a wonderful story it is! I'll have more later once the appropriate mourning period has passed.

Comments

[Sarah]

the doodles are so pretty and would look amazing etched on copper !

[Jeanne]

I am loving these journal pages of yours. I do this on scrap paper when I am on the phone. I need to start up a journal so I can keep a more permanent record of them.
xo
jeanne

[Darlene]

You need to do these doodles on fabric and then stitch them in with different colors of thread...or use fabric paint on them!

[Carol Hansen]

Your journal doodles are lovely. They would look great as embroidery.

[Dee Champion]

Loving your doodles, it looks very much like zentangle art. Very nice.