Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts. Jean Cocteau Finding your own favorite doodle pattern is a good feeling. I think flowers might be my thing, they reoccur all the time. They grow where ever I am. I start with a flower […]
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Category: Draw & doodle
Everyone can doodle, and to draw all you need is to keep practicing. I love looking at beautiful illustrations, watercolour paintings and children’s books, for example. And I always keep at least one Doodle Book going, because it’s fun to fill page after page with your own marks.
In the Shade
We have a heat wave in Sweden. It’s + 30 degrees Celsius (86 Fahrenheit) and more, right now, and that people is what I call a real summer! I’ve been enjoying the shade of the apple tree, camping out on a blanket with my gear. Can’t be bothered to think when I don’t have to. […]
Trying out Promarker pens
I used to write a crazy amount of book reviews back when I was editor or Sweden’s first (and according to me best and most awesome) book site (no longer online). I wrote so many reviews that I got tired of writing about books for several years, although never too tired to continue reading for […]
Flower Border Doodle
Sometimes the pages intended for writing are filled with flowers, and my diary becomes a notebook of flower doodles… I try to keep my doodles to the edges in this notebook, so that I will also have room for writing. It’s called the Happy Flower Garland Frame in the Craft-a-Doodle book. I just call it […]
Working in my Tiny Treasures Sketchbook
Whatever you choose, however many roads you travel, I hope that you choose not to be a lady. I hope you will find some way to break the rules and make a little trouble out there. And I also hope that you will choose to make some of that trouble on behalf of women. Nora […]
Drawing Tiny Treasures
I’m calling this new project Drawing Tiny Treasures. My intention is to fill the entire book with drawings of small things from my home. Those things that I have loved for years (and probably blogged about at some point in the past). Things that I maybe am not noticing as much any more. Or things […]
Eye Candy | Drops of Color
No medicine cures what happiness cannot. Gabriel Garca Mrquez Drops of color in puddles of water, because they sky is too gray and winter too long. I feel like I need a lot of “just because no reason” right now. Sometimes we don’t need a reason, even though our brain constantly tries to convince us […]
The Simplest Things
In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. Albert Camus Sometimes the simplest things can bring the most happiness. A scrap piece of watercolor paper. A black ink pen. A bit of time to create a doodle. Those are a few of the things that makes me happy, again […]
iHanna’s orange owl – inspired by Craft-a-Doodle
The stars began to burn through the sheets of clouds, and there was a new voice which you slowly recognized as your own. Mary Oliver Last Monday I wrote about how everyone can draw this kind of owl. It’s two watercolor circles on top of each other and then a pen doodle. I love it! […]
Everyone can Draw a Little Owl
Even if you don’t have kids, you should make stuff with kids at every opportunity. Kim Werker Time to Craft an Owl Doodle! Like I mentioned in my review of Craft-a-doodle we had a very nice doodle session around here after I got the book from the publisher. Two grown ups and two kids aged […]
Time for Diary Doodles
To doodle is often moving your hands in a familiar way. Doodling is mindless drawing of forms and patterns, doing what you’ve always done. But it can also be learning new things, trying something out, experimenting… Related PostsBlack and white collage Calendar, Cat and a Pink October My Diary is my Best Friend
Miniature Art Journal | Quirky me me me
Polka dot heart and a ghost image of… me? Not sure what this spread symbolizes, but I really like it. What do you think? Starting today with the spread that finished yesterday’s post about my Miniature Art Journal Idea and my need to get some drawing/doodling time into my life, and continuing with the rest […]