Carol Wiebe

I took a plain piece of paper, a ballpoint pen, and divided the page into different sized squares. Then I just started doodling. Usually I use lines. This time, I used scribbles, to achieve shading. Doodling with Scribbles Instead of Lines I can now take sections out here and there, and play further. #shading #CWWOL20110718 #doodling #doodles #ballpointpen #scribbles #scribbling #lines

I have two of these, like most people, and that is nothing new. Thumbnail sketches are nothing new either–artists have been making them forever, for many reasons. I am VERY interested in creating them, scads of them, hordes of them. But, like any practice you want to assimilate, you must find a way to make it fit into your habitual patterns. I often doodle ~ mostly with lines. Now I will doodle in an additional mode, exploring value. Using thumbnails is a terrific way to do t

Remember English class: the theme of finding your soul mate, your other half, better half, kindred spirit, true love. Do you believe in this concept? Is there someone out there who is the one? After the division the two parts of man, each desiring his other half, came together, and throwing their arms about one another, entwined in mutual embraces, longing to grow into one . . .          Aristophanes’ speech from Plato’s Symposium Other half 17” (l) x 5.5” (See the half circl

My doodles just keep metamorphizing! I tried stamping a few of my doodle stamps into an airdry clay, called “Makin’s Clay.” I’ll definitely be doing more of this! I really like the finished texture of the pieces: it’s like a very smooth paper. I made a button which I painted: the surface took the paint very well, and I applied acrylic medium (to seal the paint). So far the medium has not reacted with the clay in any undesirable way. Clay pieces * Painted button #Clay #embelli

Now I’ve turned a few doodles into stamps. The one with the blue smudges was used on the fabric below (the small, partial, turquoise patterns). Here is another stamp, and the scrap piece of fabric I stamped onto. I’d love it if you’d share with me how you make your stamps. These are pieces of fun foam sheets (the kiddie stuff) glued onto a base of the same material; the most playful were the ones produced very quickly with scrap pieces. I’ve always thought I should carve stam

I’m going to start out with a less than remarkable doodle. Sometimes doodles really have zing! and you blink, shake your head and say, “Wow! How did this come out of that ho-hum meeting? ” Other times, I simply save them out of habit, or curiosity as to how I can fiddle with them and make something else. The first pic is my original doodle. Then I fix it up, make it straight, refine a little in Photoshop Elements. I repeat the doodle for a full sheet of pattern. I can use the

It doesn’t matter how boring the meeting, how long the wait at the airport or doctor’s office, as long as I have a couple of good black pens and a small pad of paper, I am HAPPY! I love to doodle, and I have binders full of doodle designs to attest for that fact. At one of the workshops I attended, the instructor, trained as a fine artist, was appalled to hear the word doodling: drawing or sketching would be the correct terms. However, there is an effective psychological fact