Doodle Days

Doodle Days are fun days. 

You can doodle anywhere! 

In a shape & around a shape. 

In a rectangle, in a square, in a circle. 

Angel (student example)

Mrs. Morgan (in a pumpkin shape)

Mrs. Morgan (in the negative spaces of a landscape)

Kids practicing Doodles and Zentagles

Spring 2021 MMS

1st period 6th grade 2021 

Doodle Day

Doodle, Zentangle, Daydreaming in Ink...whatever you call it, the concept is the same. 

It is SUB-CONSCIENCE Drawings. 

It keeps your hand active to allow your mind to concentrate. 

Its NOT DRAWING!

Drawing has a plan. If your plan goes astray, you get upset and stressed. 

Since Doodling is spontaneous and unplanned, 

expectations are non existant . 

You just GO WITH THE FLOW of the ink, literally. 

Using lines, shapes and patterns to create 

a blend of unplanned spontaneous harmony on paper. 

You are not supposed to make it 'anything". No cats, no dogs, no houses, no things. 

Just pure designs. 

Using a pen is best, so you are not determined to erase what comes out. 

Watch this person do the doodle. 

Here's mine on paper. 

To get more ideas, click picture above... 

WHERE DO YOU DOODLE ?

Paper, your shoe, a DVD, your hand, your homework... 

DVDs

Permanent Marker on an old DVD or CD looks beautiful. 

You can doodle a circle with RADIAL DESIGN. 

Here I had kids trace a used disc 3 times to plan out a design. 

Then they started on an old DVD or CD with permanent marker using their favorite design.

2023

2022

Ashleigh & Kiara 

Raelynn

Joline

Preston and Carter 6th grade 2021

Ariel 6th grade 2021

My examples...

Post it NOte

2026 Advanced Art Work

2019 Alba Golden Elementary

4th and 3rd grade Friday classes

2 Neat videos by 2 eccentric artists that create 

Art on Post-it notes

Teeny Weeny CHallenge video

Citrus Study

ARTIST OF INSPIRATION

ELOISE RENOUF

What do you see in her designs?

Repeated Objects in various forms.

Transparent and Opaque overlapping each other. 

Color Schemes in each piece. 

What would you do if you had her style? 

You can pick your subject (advanced classes) 

or you can go with 

Lemons as your subject (like below). 

 Study the anatomy of a citrus fruit. 

Going over vocabulary will help out more when drawing the fruits. 

Slice, wedge, segment, zest, pulp, walls, etc.

4th grade artist practice sketching her citrus
(above)

LET"S GET STARTED

Remember Eloise Renouf's Style.... 

Drawing the same object in various forms, 

Playing with transparency and solid forms of the object. 

Layering the object on the paper. 

1. Choose a COLOR SCHEME

Pick 3-4 colors you want to use for your picture. 

2. Choose your paper color. 

Use white or a color that is in your scheme. 

 

3. Draw an assortment of citrus with pencil in variations of Slices, wedges, or whole. 

4. Outline them with marker in colors of your scheme. 

If white, use a Prisma Color white. 

5. Draw same citrus blend on colored or white paper. 

Outline with a marker, cut out and glue down to background paper. 

5th grade Soape/Tuesday class

Rowdy, Wesley, 

Abby, Jaylee, 

josilyn & sawyer

 Kailyn an Madison

I found many ideas for this just google imaging:

lemon illustration print pattern vector seamless

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Alternative Method

Drawing on white paper. Outline with Sharpie. 

Highlight with non washable white crayon. Online with washable markers. 

Paint with wet brush...

Another idea...
Leave the lemons black, white and grey.
Use marker to add spots to the background and do a water brush blend.
Looks beautiful.

4th grade Smartt/Tuesday class

Mrs. Smartt's class below

 Faith, Avery, 
Campbell, Cavern, 
Anonymous & Harli 

Sketch from my 7th grader at HeartWorks in Quitman.

Another idea (I'm kinda inspired by these citrus!)...
Crumbled Citrus  Batik
https://tabithaannthelostsock.blogspot.com/2014/05/tempera-crumbled-batiks.html

Draw with Pencil

Outline with Sharpie

 Color Hard with crayons (non washable)
Anything white must be colored white as well.

Crumble up picture 3 times and crush into a tight ball each time. \

Smooth out on surface. 

 Cover with a layer of brushed on black tempera paint.

 Water down the paint and sponge off leaving only paint in the stained cracks.

Pop Art Citrus

Inspired by Burton Morris

https://tabithaannthelostsock.blogspot.com/2017/01/popart-heart_2.html