Sunday, May 20, 2012

Art With the Doodle Girls

I get the opportunity to spend art time with my friends, Anne and Cynthia, once a month. 

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This is Anne showing us her sweet card.

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On this particular occasion, Anne and I had just gotten back from the Scrapbook Expo and we were so inspired to make cards.

We used a glitter paper that we made ourselves.  Lots of cutting involved, which is not really my thing, but I like the results.  These are mine!

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And, these are Anne’s.  We both used them for Mother’s Day.  I think they are cute!

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On this day, the three of us worked on a Maura Johnson inspired art journal page.  This is Anne’s.  I love her color choices.  I really enjoyed doing this as you can tell from an earlier post.

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This one was made by Cynthia.  The night before, she spent several hours cutting butterflies out of magazines so we would have a nice selection.  I love her placement of the butterflies.  I also really like the way she anchored the girl to the page and to the text with the lines.  I’m going to remember that for my next girl.

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What actually started the little gathering of the three of us was a Traci Bautista online workshop with Strathmore.  We met for five weeks in a row and created some very fun art. 

Traci teaches a fantastic art of doodling and I’ve been doodling on everything ever since.

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Traci also suggested making doodle art for cards and ATC’s.

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And, finally, she taught us how to make a “Glam Girl,” which I loved.  Here's the beginning of the painting.

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Another doodle page!

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Another doodle page!  I really enjoy doing this!  It’s relaxing!

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This is Anne’s doodle page that started out like this!  It looks like it could be finished…but no…

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Now it’s finished and a gorgeous piece of art!

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Anne’s other piece started like this…

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And, ended like this!  Awesome!

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Here is Anne’s Glam Girl.  Started like this…

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Here’s another step in Anne’s girl.

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This is not the actual final painting, but rather this is a 1x1” magnet that was made from the final painting.  Pretty dang clever!

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This is the beginning of one of Cynthia’s doodle pages.

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Here’s more of the same page!

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Here’s another one of Cynthia’s pages.

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This is the beginning of Cynthia’s Glam Girl!  Love her!

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Here are some more of the pages that we created in different stages.

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This is Laurie’s Glam Girl.  Isn’t she gorgeous!  Love her hair!

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