The snow is gone and the ground is green, woo hooo!
Little sprouts everywhere.
I am sooo glad so many of you want to doodle with me.
I used to keep journals, oh back beginning in the 2nd grade.
Me and my diary, telling it all my secrets.
Then having to rip up pages and burn them for fear my parents would read them.
Haha!
But, whilst doodling, I have been throwing in a few feelings and ideas swirling about.
Not major journaling though.
Not yet at least.
Right now I just want to mindlessly draw.
I don’t want to think about it, or hash anything out.
I just want to relax and unwind in the drawing.
I doodled every night this week.
I had more peaceful rests at night because of it.
My mind was less full and thinking endlessly.
Lovee was like, that’s a lot of stuff on those pages.
And I said, that’s nothing compared to how my brain feels 🙂
Lots of you doodle already.
But have those of you who don’t doodle regularly, started again?
I am trying to figure out a way for us to share our doodles.
You could send me photos/scans and I could upload them into an online album if you’d like?
Or, you can send photos and I can post them every so often in doodle blog posts?
I was going to start adding a little color to my doodles.
However I only did 1 heart.
I realized, I am still just in doodle mode, and not ready for color quite yet.
I had a little glitter paint on hand.
But, I know my ink will smear, so, I am just going to stay in the doodle days for a tinge longer.
You?
I am in this place right now where the doodling is strictly for therapeutic fun relaxing reasons.
And not for work.
I don’t want to have to think quite yet.
So, here I am.
Setting a little bit of doodling time aside every evening.
(and sometimes more, because I just can’t help myself)
Fill me in on if you are doodling too.
Sleeping better?
Having fun? Feeling blocked?
Not joining in yet?
Let’s chat in comments.
I’ll be there chatting, so if you want to peek back, feel free.
I am in a place myself, where my mind is searching for more shapes.
And, I feel this really intense calm and “zoning out” in all this doodling.
I am liking this.
A lot.
You?
Oh Vanessa, after reading about your first doodle I set about doodling too! And after a few days (I do have two littles I care for full time) I finally finished a page and it felt so so so good!
I would love to share my doodles! I took some pictures today and I was going to put them on my site, but maybe not, maybe I’d like to share them with you here instead!
I used to doodle in class all the time, but I haven’t done it much since I graduated. Maybe I will start now! Also, I seriously need that 500 Teapots book I spy on your shelf. So awesome!
Yes, feel free to send them over.
In fact, I think I will upload them at the bottom of this post…..
That would be fun, to see what everyone is up to I think for sure 😉
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In a message dated 2/23/2013 5:25:10 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
Alia, PLUNGE PLUNGE!!!!! Dooooodledays!! Oh and, I have the 500
bowls and dolls etc, they all are awesome!!! Get the teapot one 😉
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In a message dated 2/23/2013 5:27:36 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
Wow! When you doodle…you really doodle! I can’t doodle without color….it’s just not in me :)I doodled some last night….I didn’t go to bed until 3am….lol. I’m loving all of your snowy pictures.
I love doodling and am so happy to see this post. Doodling is something I left behind in my college years…Im 52 now but, you have inspired me…some of my greatest creative ideas came form random doodles. Yours is fabulous!
smiles
LiBBy BuTTons
I think color will come soon. I think once I start in color, I might
never stop either, hahahaa 😉
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In a message dated 2/23/2013 7:26:00 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
Wooooo hoooo Libby 😉 Doodle time it is!! 😉
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In a message dated 2/23/2013 8:33:37 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
You know, I’m looking at that 4th photo down and thinking what awesome coloring pages those would make. For adults and kids alike. 🙂
Love your doodles 🙂 They are beautiful and so fun! I don’t usually doodle, but decided that I needed a project that I can just let go and have fun, and joining in on the doodling has done just that. Such a wonderful idea! Can’t wait to see where this leads to 🙂
Alli
Hello dearest! Your doodles are wonderful works of art! You know, when I was young – I would spend HOURS drawing my own little comic worlds. Pages upon pages of stories driven my art and words. Oh how I wish I had kept all those notebooks! Your doodles remind me of those doodlings of my own. 🙂 And how fun it would be to see what others are creating, too!
Yes, doodles are an amazing way to relax. I also find they help me sleep better and dream more vividly. Love your doodles, so very creative and happy. They make me smile. I almost forgot to tell you of my latest find, first I want to say that I use many of the same drawing tools that you do. I did find something fun, a brush tip marker. I have a fine one and a thicker one. they are a little hard to control but you get into it after a while. I stick to black mostly but do have a red one. They come in a variety of colors and quality.
Thank you for sharing your wonderful art, they are very stimulating.
You are the all and inspiring (OZ)…..Miss Vanessa
I’ve found this is the BEST way of being creative and getting the flow back for people who get stuck with their art! I’ve been doing a drawing a day without any thought, just seeing what comes out and it’s really helped my painting. Great stuff! 🙂 xx
Woooo hoooo Jess!! I am in full agreement with you 😉
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In a message dated 2/24/2013 11:19:32 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
Hi Vanessa ~
Such gorgeous work! My son just received a doodle book from my mother and we both have been doodling a bit recently. I think need to make it part of my evening routine ~ sounds like a fabulous way to relax my brain too!
Happy weekend.
Ciao bella,
Suzanne
Gorgeous doodling Vanessa! ohhh I spied a PINK! Alice book near some cute little toes hehehe 🙂 running to amazon LOL
(ooo I need a pedicure too)
xoxo
Deb
Your doodling is awesome! I use to doodle in high school on my PeeChee note book…lots of people would go by in the school hallways with their PeeChee (yellow folders) with paisleys designs galore in rad mod colors! Groovy!Then came the hearts, and the stars, and the daisies…kind of like ‘Lazy Day’ just right for lovin’ away’…what a day for pickin daisies…da, da, da, for saying right out love…I love you!’ song by the ‘Cow Sills'(probably still on you tube) Those hippie, flowerchild days…what a feeling back then. Santa Monica Beach, Malibu, Newport Beach, Laguna…all my favorite haunts as a teenager driving and riding around in my friends 57’ four door Chevy, driving down Pacific Coast Highway better known as PCH. ‘Those were the days my friend we thought they’d never end…’ (another 60’s song).
‘You make me feel like dancin’ I wanna dance my life away…’
See what your doodling has done for my brain??? Ha!!! I love it!
Miss Teresa
*******star sprinkles coming your way!
Beautiful!
I never thought to take photos of mine,
Love your doodles! 😀 I’ve been drawing and doodling too! I started a new blog! http://cozydoodle.blogger.ca
you can always add a Linky thing where people add their link to their doodle. I think the link is http://www.linkytools.com/
😀 Lovely doodling! 😀
Maria
Hello Vanessa! I just love love love your work and I’m so glad you decided to do this!
Here is mine as you requested! http://wp.me/p350TS-5g I give you permission to grab one for this post if you so desire.
You have seriously opened a floodgate for me. 🙂 Have a beautiful day!
I just caught up with a few of your marvelous posts…the snow is so magical…but now you have green peeking through? We are craving Spring here too…(in MN)..
And I hope sweet Matty is feeling better!
I love doodling….this is so wonderful…really does calm the mind, and hopefully produces some new ideas..
Your doodles are enchanting, dear Vanessa! And I love peeking at the bookshelf…
Enjoy!!!
Love and blessings,
– Irina
I doodled today, first time IMO don’t know how long. It was so freeing! Thanks for the motivation and inspiration!
Great doodles! You seem like a fabulously fun artsy girl, I’ve enjoyed my visit here! :))))
Blocked. Fretting about another project.
Hey-when you add color, do you do it all on the computer?
I love pen and ink, but like you said-there is smearage.
And I’ve never found a non-smearing black ink I was happy with.
Well look at you, you little doodling darling???!!!! And such cute doodling you do “-). Last semester I took a class that I fondly called my doodling and Noodling class, but alas, doodling and noodling seemed beyond my wee brains comprehension. But you my Fair Friendling are the Master Doodler or should I say, La Mistress de’ doodle (she said with her phony French accent).
Me thinks I’m inspired and shall try doodling again ‘-)!!!
Love you Vanessa!!!!
xoxo Cori
I love it!
Can I be your new best friend? You are simply amazing and inspirational! Those doodles are awesome and I truly wish you would take every little bit and make a book or maybe a bunch of downloads on cd or something! Thank you for sharing yourself. I can’t return the favor as I’m not a drawing artist… my art lies somewhere else, and haven’t really found it yet. So keep up with the “doodles!”
{{ oh
oh so Happy
to see
you are doing this —-> the doodle*dance
as
i am apt
to call it …
a few posting back i read
((( Finding Yourself Back…)))
and
meant to post Good Cheer to you
but
as i was Suffering a Bit of The Same
i did NOT send words
of support
although i meant
to do so
and
DID so in my 🖤
and
then Time flew as it always does
so
yes
yes
yes
do this —> the doodle*dance
and let your Body Heal
and your Time Mend …
the snow is meant–
i do think–
to give you a bit of Time Out
so you might find yourself
~~Anew~~
and ~~Relish who you ARE
in this better health~~
or
something like that …
what
what
what
does a florida girl know of snow??
you ask ???
not much
but
clearly
clearly
a quiet white snow blanket
and
some clean white paper pages
can help
whatever needs help …
thinking of you, dear !!
🖤