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#doodlewashOctober2024 prompt: Badger, Fluffernutter, Viking. It’s National Badger Day!

Did you know the Eurasian badgers will share their burrows with other species - rabbits, porcupines, red foxes, brown rats, wood mice, stone martens, pine martens, and coypus?

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Did you know there are older versions of the Three Little Pigs have pixies or geese instead of pigs, and in some versions of the story the villain is a fox instead of a wolf?

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August Sketching Stuff Challenge: Sketch a Pet.

#DoodlewashAugust2025 Prompt: Pet.

The latest Sketching Challenge newsletter is out and Charlie O’Shields walks us through painting a Pet Portrait of a Boxer. I like to change things a bit so I did a Mastiff, using his instructions. I fussed too much though, so I lost the spontaneity of Charlie’s instructions.

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#DoodlewashApril2024 prompts: Wishing Well, Lorikeet, Fern & Bricks

Did you know myths about wishing wells are widespread ? To name a few - the Roman culture, believed water goddesses lived in them, who could grant wishes: the Celts believed they were portals to the otherworld; the Nordic believed they were associated with the goddesses of fate; the Scots believed they bestow eternal youth.

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#DoodlewashSeptember2024 prompt: Yo-yo, Historic, Pelican.

Sketching Stuff Challenge: SKETCH A ZANY IDEA!

Did you know the first proof of the yo-yo is a Greek painting that dates back to 440 BC, but it is believed to be much older, and probably originated in China or the Philippines? The Greek painting in question didn’t have a pelican on it, though, lol.

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#DoodlewashAUG2024 prompt: Mythical.

#SketchingStuff challenge: Courageous Color!

Did you know the word hippocampus, from the Greek, translates to ‘horse’ and ‘sea monster’, but in myth this half-horse, half-fish was considered a benevolent creature that helped sailors in distress?

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#DoodlewashApril2025 prompt: Thorny Devil.

Did you know the Thorny Devil Katydid is one of the conehead katydids? Isn’t that cool - coneheads! I was going to paint the Thorny Devil lizard and then I discovered these guys, and how could I resist a face like that?

And yes - they really do exist and this is what they look like!

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#DoodlewashAugust2025 Prompt: 10-Peridot.

Did you know peridot is often formed in volcanic conditions making it a good August birthstone? Some choose it for a wedding ring since it symbolizes love, prosperity, and harmony, though it is soft and will show wear and may shatter if hit hard enough.

Yesterday’s drawing, painted.

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#DoodlewashMarch2024 Prompt: Colosseum

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Did you know the gladiators in the #Colosseum seldom fought to the death? They were too expensive to train and keep for that! In fact, some historians believe the matches were more like today’s wrestling with scripted fights.

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#DoodlewashSeptember2023 prompt: Vacation.

Did you know the Blue Ridge Parkway is America’s Longest Linear Parkway at 469 miles, taking more than 50 years to complete? We drove through a short part of it when I was on vacation last month. So beautiful!

I need to remember that sweeping landscapes are NOT the best subject for postcard size, lol.

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Sketching Stuff Prompt: Sketching Glass is Fun!

I’m a little late with Charlie’s last April Sketching Stuff prompt, but he said sketching glass was fun, and I decided to really have fun with it. Perry MasonJar & the Case of the Lovesick LLama!

Did you know the ‘Perry Mason moment’ is an actual legal term, referring to times when last minute decision-changing evidence influences a case?

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#DoodlewashAugust2025 Prompts: 28 Bow Tie & 29 Peach.

#artistryinkchallengeaugust2025 prompts: Bow Tie & Dance.

Did you know the bow tie started as a scarf that was part of the uniform worn by Croat soldiers in the Thirty Years War of the 1600s? After the war, fashion took the idea and it became the cravat. That eventually became either the necktie or the bow tie - there is debate over which came first.

Sharpie Permanent Pen & Da Vinci Sketching Stuff Watercolor on Strathmore Gemini Cold Press.

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#DoodlewashAugust2025 Prompts: 14-Pet, 18-Radio, 31-Cheeseburger.

Did you know the word ‘broadcast’ originally meant scattering seeds over a wide area in a field, rather than planting them individually? It wasn’t until the 1920s that the word became associated with radio.

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#DoodlewashAugust2025 Prompt 3-Watermelon.

August 3 is National Watermelon Day! Did you know many cats like watermelon, and a little bit is usually safe for them? However, the seeds can cause digestive problems, some cats don’t digest any of it well, and only healthy cats should eat it at all. Best to discuss it with your vet before allowing your cat to eat any.

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#sketchingstuff Challenge: On Second Thought

The Golden Fleece, Counting Sheep #37

Did you know that ‘repoussé’ is a technique of shaping patterns in relief on metal by hammering/pressing metal on the reverse side?

I’m posting out of order, since this is the last page of my Counting Sheep Journa and I have others I haven’t posted yetl.

But, this was done for the latest Sketching Stuff challenge so I posted it today.

I had intended to paint something fairly realistic, then, on Second Thought I decided to do something totally different than anything else in the journal.

As usual, it’s difficult to get a good photograph or scan of a metallic painting, but it looks pretty cool in real life.

Thank you to Mary Roff for this fabulous watercolor sketchbook. I’ve really enjoyed working in it.

Van Gogh watercolor in a Mary Roff Handmade Journal

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This week's #sketchingstuff Challenge was Coloring with Watercolor and invited you to do an ink drawing to color with watercolor.

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Charlie O’Shields painted a bowl of avocados for the second July Sketching Stuff Challenge. I like to change things up a bit so I painted a bowl of limes, while still pretty much following his steps. I don’t know? Do people eat bowls of limes? I’m allergic so I don’t really know, lol.

Sorry, I was about to head out for a picnic so I did this fast, and didn’t have time to look up a fact.

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#DoodlewashAugust2025 Prompts: 4-Cookie, 5-Oyster, 20-Peanut, & 24-Coffee.

Did you know there are recipes for Oyster Cookies with Pearls that call for Peanut butter cookies, frosting, and pearl-shaped candies?

Quickly done with Sharpie Pen & Da Vinci Sketching Stuff Watercolor on Strathmore Gemini Watercolor paper.

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July Sketching Stuff Challenge: Hot and Cold.

In the latest Sketching Stuff Challenge, Charlie O’Shields showed us how to paint a treasure chest using hot and cold colors.

Usually, I try to use Charlie’s instructions to paint something entirely different, but this time I decided to just change the details a bit.

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Sketching Stuff Challenge: Sketch a Fall Leaf!

Did you know a recent study found people born during autumn months are more likely to live to 100 or more? It was discovered that 30 % of U.S. centenarians born during 1880-1895 were born in the autumn months.

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#DoodlewashMarch2025 prompt: Banjo. Cats with claws shouldn’t play the banjo!

Did you know that Earl Scruggs of the Blue Grass Boys band invented the popular three-finger picking banjo style, which is possibly where the term ‘Bluegrass’ came from?

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#doodlewashApril2022 prompts: Mug.

Did you know there are 3 theories about the origin of the term ‘Cup of Joe’?

One is that Joe was a term for the common man and coffee the drink of the common man. Another is that other slang terms for coffee, Java and Jamoke, were combined and shortened to Joe. The last is that when Josephus Daniels, Secretary of the Navy, banned alcohol on Navy Ships, in 1913, more coffee was consumed. The sailors began calling it ‘Joe’ in reference to the Secretary.

'Create Like a Kid Again' - Exercise 12. Discover Fun Facts.

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Tutorial: How to Paint a Mountain Bluebird in Watercolor.

We’ll be using just three colors and white gouache.

You can find it at Doodlewash! dwsh.co/MountainBluebirdTutorial

To keep things simple, I’ve done a video and written a step by step with minimal instruction (you know the mnemonics anagram – KISS. Keep It Simple, Stupid. Something I have trouble remembering most of the time).

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Did you know Mountain Bluebirds hover over their prey, to catch insects in mid air?

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June #sketchingstuff Challenge - Sketch an Adjective. Mine response has several.

Did you know the Persian Blackhead is a fat-tailed, hair sheep breed with long floppy ears, a hanging dewlap, and a distinctive black head on a white body?

Counting Sheep #14

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#sketchingstuff Challenge: Color in Three Different Ways.

#DoodlewashApril2023 prompt: Pose. What more beautiful pose than that of a humpback whale as it breaches?

Serendipity-my painting group and I were just playing with combining like-value shapes and matching color values to black & white values. We did this by painting the same thing 3 times. Once as a black and white, then as a monochromatic blue, and then with the three primary colors. I didn’t have time to quite finish the last, but did enough to get the idea.

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#DoodlewashNovember2023 prompt: Chicken Soup.

#SketchingStuff challenge: Sketch your favorite food.

Did you know the earliest archaeological evidence of soup dates back to 6000 BC, and it was hippopotamus soup? I think I’ll stick to chicken! It’s Chicken Soup for the Soul Day! Neither chicken soup or hippopotamus soup are my favorites, but I do love soup!

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An example done for my review of Easy Watercolor Flowers : 45 Beautiful Paintings for Beginners by Bianca Rosen focuses on quick paintings of lovely flowers. No drawing, no pre-study, just painting directly on the paper.

A great book:

* for beginners

* for moderately-experienced artists who want to loosen up their watercolors

* For anybody who wants to jump in and start painting loose and lovely flowers

* For anyone who wants to do something relaxing

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#DoodlewashX2023 prompt: Baby.

For the latest Sketching Stuff challenge I did a quick sketch of one of my favorite childhood memories (which is well-enforced by family photos) of myself (age 7) with one of the first baby tigers we raised. 5 minutes to sketch, 5 minutes to paint.

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#DoodlewashAugust2025 Prompt: Sandwich.

Did you know, in 1778, Captain Cook and his crew coined the name Sandwich Islands for the islands they found, named after the 4th Earl of Sandwich? It wasn’t until 1959, when they became the 50th state, that ‘Hawaiian Islands’ became the official name.

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#DoodlewashSeptember2023 prompt: Roller Bird.

September #sketchingstuff Challenge: Sketch Your Favorite Bird

Did you know the Indian Roller bathes by diving into water from a height, as though fishing?

A quick watercolor sketch on non-watercolor paper while waiting in the car. Done with Derwent Pastel watercolors & waterbrush in a Mary Roff Mixed Media sketchbook.

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August ’22 Sketching Stuff exercise and

#DoodlewashSeptember2022 prompt: Music. It may not be music to your ears, but ...

Did you know that lambs and ewes can recognize each other's bleats, and that studies have shown they can recognize up to 50 faces, both sheep and human, and remember them for up to two years?

I'm posting prompts out of order. Several of my prompt responses this month will show up as examples in reviews, so I’m jumping over those.

I meant to really exaggerate the rump, and use an entirely different style. Then I got caught up in painting the shadows and ended up doing something entirely different. I blame this demanding little lamb, who's riding his mother's back.

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#DoodlewashX2023 prompt: Ponytail.

#sketchingstuff Challenge: Memory Mashup.

Did anyone else have one of these rocking horses as a kid? I got so excited about painting this that I kind of forgot what the challenge actually was, but a fond childhood memory popped up and Buttermilk and I hit the trail one more time.

Oh, and besides the obvious tail on this pony, my hair was almost always up in a ponytail when I was riding this guy.

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An example done for my review of Easy Watercolor Flowers : 45 Beautiful Paintings for Beginners by Bianca Rosen focuses on quick paintings of lovely flowers. No drawing, no pre-study, just painting directly on the paper.

A great book:

* for beginners

* for moderately-experienced artists who want to loosen up their watercolors

* For anybody who wants to jump in and start painting loose and lovely flowers

* For anyone who wants to do something relaxing

Interested? Find the whole review at Doodlewash

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#doodlewashOctober2024 prompt: Meteor Shower.

Did you know two meteor showers occur this October? The Draconid occurs October. 7-8, the more spectacular Orionid occurs the 20-21.

Let’s hope this painting isn’t predicting anything. I felt like I was channeling Tales of the Crypt when painitng this one.

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August Sketching Stuff Challenge: Sketch Common Stuff.

The latest Sketching Challenge newsletter is out and Charlie O’Shields walks us through a painting of lemons and lemonade.

I always like to give myself an extra challenge by changing things just a bit, so I painted oranges instead of lemons, while following his steps except for using the color orange instead of yellow, and altering the shapes slightly.

I rushed through this a bit, so I may come back and do it again later.

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I got my copy of Charlie O'Shields latest book, One Little Mouse. It's a unique blend of storybook and activity book. The story's written in rhyme, and the reader is encouraged to decide what items are and draw them! I used gel pen to draw this loganberry. #sketchingstuff #DrawUponATime #OneLittleMouse

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This was done using only two colors - complementarie Charlie O'Blue & Terra Cotta. #DoodlewashJanuary2023 prompt: Robin.

#sketchingstuff challenge-Jan. 13, 2023.

Did you know that American Robins have about about 2,900 feathers?

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August ’22 Sketching Stuff exercise and

#DoodlewashAugust2022 prompt: School Supplies. Well, Mary did have a little lamb that followed her to school one day, so obviously sheep are a school supply.

The August sketching stuff had an exercise challenge to use a shadow to make things pop.

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Slide to see Charlie O’Shield’s original version.

The challenge this time is to draw and paint a hummingbird and butterfly feeding at a flower. I mostly followed Charlie’s instructions but I think I learn more when changing things a bit so I did a different drawing and changed the colors on the butterfly a bit, plus added a little splatter for background.

And I screwed up on the butterfly wings because I didn’t wait for the paint to dry … er… I mean I did some totally on -purpose blending and layering on the wings. Whew! Almost let you know I make mistakes!

Kuretake Mangaka Pigment Pen & DaVinci Sketching Stuff Watercolor Palette in a Lightwish Cold Press sketchbook.

#DoodlewashAUG2024 prompt:. Saiga Antelope.

Sketching Stuff Challenge: Splashing Water to Create Background.

Did you know we always tend to use the word ‘horns’ or ‘antlers’, but there are four types of sharp, bony head protrusions in animals - antlers, horns, pronghorns, and ossicones? The main difference is the first three grow from the skull: antlers are shed annually, horns are permanent, pronghorns are horns that branch like antlers, while ossicones (such as giraffes, okapi, and saga antelopes have) start out as cartilage that fuses to the skull and becomes horn.

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#sketchingstuff Second April.Challenge 2023.

Sketching the first thing you see can present some challenges. The first thing I saw was my cell phone, all dark and really not that interesting. But then I saw the reflection of the curtains, and figured what the heck. So I used black paper to paint my black phone with its black screen, and faint reflections. True to life, I added smudges on the screen.

Can’t say I’m happy with it, but it was quick and a definite challenge.

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An example done for my review of Easy Watercolor Flowers : 45 Beautiful Paintings for Beginners by Bianca Rosen focuses on quick paintings of lovely flowers. No drawing, no pre-study, just painting directly on the paper.

A great book:

* for beginners

* for moderately-experienced artists who want to loosen up their watercolors

* For anybody who wants to jump in and start painting loose and lovely flowers

* For anyone who wants to do something relaxing

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#DoodlewashDecember2022 prompt: Snowman & December Sketching Stuff challenge. I’m a bit early for this prompt, but I wanted to let people know the Sketching Stuff newsletter was out. You can sign up here t0 get fun challenges and the latest Sketching Stuff news: bit.ly/3iaQk7B

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Sketching Stuff Challenge: Sketch Some Snow.

Did you know, according to Guinness World Records, the largest snowflake came from Montana in 1887, measured at 15 inches across and 8 inches thick?

This painting is a bit more involved than Charlie’s challenge called for, but I’ve been wanting to paint this for a while, and it seemed like a good time to do it. It’s all done in one color mixed from the Sketching Stuff watercolor set.

Da Vinci Sketching Stuff Watercolor set on Saunders Waterford Rough.

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May #sketchingstuff Challenge - Sketch what you feel. Since I was feeling that I really needed to do some housework, and I reeeeallly didn’t wanna, and was willfully not doing it, I painted this mule instead. But the housework.is.still. waiting…waiting…

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Sketching Stuff Challenge: Build a Snowman.

In the second Sketching Stuff Challenge for January, Charlie shows us how to draw and paint a snowman!

I changed my drawing a bit just so I wasn’t copying Charlie’s work exactly, but I followed the steps for coloring it in.

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Sketching Stuff challenge: Paint Something Brand New

Sorry, I didn’t have time to look up a fact for today.

While painting sheep is not brand new to me, I’ve never tried painting in the Cubism style, and it’s something I’ve wanted to play with. I’m not sure I got the multiple viewpoint right, but meanwhile I learned a little about cubism. Mainly, that I don’t enjoy painting that style all that much, lol. I may try a few more because sometimes you don’t enjoy something until suddenly you do!

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