Today’s challenge prompt “All is calm” stumped me at first, but then I started to see the letter “A” forming in my head. I knew if I drew it out, the rest would flow. It worked!
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I liked drawing this doodle so much, I may have to do more versions and fine tune the sleigh runners while I’m at it.
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I’ve been up to my eyeballs in website and online shop maintenance, so I’ve missed the past couple of days for the challenge prompts. Thankfully, I finally got everything done this evening and had enough energy left to play with a new lettering style I found on Pinterest. It’s called “Chimaera” that suggested it was a good learning exercise for students. As a “student”, I have to agree! Click here if you want to see the original pin I used for reference.
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I had a crazy busy weekend that left me away from my computer and mobile devices. But I did still have my sketchbook with me. Here’s my lettering and doodle contributions to the challenge (better late than never).
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This little gal has been in my sketchbook for a long time. I decided that it was time that she got some color. I’m trying to do mini watercolor paintings to get back into the swing of painting again. I did this sketch while watching the movie Meet Me in St. Louis. It reminded me of the days I used to stand at the bus stop as a child waiting in the swirling snow for the bus to arrive. I often felt like a human “snowgirl”. I experienced so much snow during my childhood years in the mountains of Colorado, that it’s enough snow to last me a lifetime (hence the look on the little girl’s face). That’s why I now live where it snows once every three or four decades (if that) and just watch snow in Christmas movies *wink*.
This quick doodle is for today’s challenge prompt “Snowman”. Sometimes I’m in the mood for something simple and minimalist. Snow is simple and minimalist, so I thought this doodle should be too.
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For a while, I’ve been wanting to paint daily small or mini watercolor paintings, but haven’t had the subject matter to spark creative inspiration. Today’s lettering challenge prompt “Merry and bright” seemed like a good enough jumping off point. Painting in a small scale is freeing in many ways. It allows me to use the least amount of brushstrokes to represent a form like a holly leaf or red berry. [By the way, I chose to watch Little Women as background accompaniment for this one.]
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I took the watercolors out for a spin again for today’s challenge doodle “Hot cocoa”. I sketched, painted, and inked it while watching Charlie and the Chocolate Factory on Netflix. The movie quote, “…no other factory in the world mixes its chocolate by waterfall, my dear children, and you can take that to the bank” seems a fitting companion to a cup of hot cocoa painted entirely from watercolors.
Can you find both the words “hot” and “cocoa” in this painting?
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Today’s challenge prompt of “HO HO HO” was a tough one for me. I love hand-lettering done with a brush pen when it’s rendered by someone else, but I’m really lousy at it (probably because my brain is too rebellious and gets bored with doing something someone else has done again and again). So I had to fudge on this one and create the repeat digitally from my best red version and green version of the words.
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I can’t believe it happened twice in less than a week, but this challenge doodle was another one that came into my mind and I knew exactly how I wanted it to look. I just had to find the time and energy to execute on paper what I saw in my head. I almost got impatient because my hand couldn’t go fast enough. I guess that’s why I’m better at photography than art.
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