Did you know that on rare occasions, a panda is born brown & white instead of black & white? Look up Qizai if you are interested in learning more. Zebra Zensations Technical Pen & Daniel Smith Watercolor on Hahnemühle cold press Watercolor postcard #Doodlewash Prompt-Furry Friends #SketchingStuff #LifeImitatesDoodles #ZebraPen_USA #ZebraAmbassador @Hahnemühle_USA

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

Did you know that sheep spend about 15% of their time sleeping?

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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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#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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#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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#sketchingstuff challenge-I really put my heart into this one, lol!

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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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#DoodlewashMarch2024 Prompt: Colosseum

#SketchingStuff February Challenge: Coloring Book Fun

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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#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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#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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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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Tutorial: How to Paint a Mountain Bluebird in Watercolor.

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

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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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#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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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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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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#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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#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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#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

Interested? Find the whole review at Doodlewash

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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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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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@maryeroff #PaintsPalettesPages @davincipaints #Doodlewash #LifeImitatesDoodlesous tail on this pony, my hair was almost always up in a ponytail when I was riding this guy. His name was Buttermilk, by the way.

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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.

#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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Sketching Stuff Challenge: Splash Some Color

This time Charlie O’Shields walks us through his painting of a paintbrush with a background of splashed color. I went off on a complete tangent though. I happened to have splashed color all over some paper for another project, when I saw the challenge, and knew this was meant to be my answer to it. Instead of sketching before color was added, I looked at what I had splashed and decided it was a dragon breathing fire.

Kuretake Managaka Zig Pigment pen & Daniel Smith watercolor on St Cuthbert’s Mill Millford Cold Press.

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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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#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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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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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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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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#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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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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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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Sketching Stuff Challenge May 2025: Limited Colors.

Charlie O’Shields latest Sketching Stuff Challenge was to use limited colors and he walked through his method for painting a blue elephant.

I like to change things just a little because then I learn more so I did a blue pig instead of an elephant.

Did you know there is a breed of pigs called the Canterbury Blue, from New Zealand? It’s more of a gray, of course, but does have a blue cast in some lights.

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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Charlie O’Shields sent out a new exercise in his Sketching Stuff newsletter. This is what I did. I think I was channeling my inner Alfred E. Neuman.

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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: 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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#DoodlewashSeptember2023 prompt: Roses. Do you know what an anthophile is? Someone who loves flowers!

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Sketching Stuff Challenge March 2025: Sketch Some Nostalgia.

Charlie O’Shields challenge this time around was to paint something nostalgic. He walked us through his painting of a kitten next to an old Record Player.

I also have fond memories of my first record player but instead of kittens I had baby lions and tigers (my father worked at a zoo before they had nurseries, and if a mother refused to feed her babies they were sent home with one of the employees until they could eat solid food). I followed the steps to Charlie’s drawing but made my record player pink like my first player, and changed the kitten to a lion cub. The lion’s were cuter than the tigers (at first, anyway) and I could use the same colors that Charlie did for his kitten.

Kuretake Managaka Zig Pigment pen & DaVinci Sketching Stuff Watercolor in an Etchr Perfect Watercolor Sketchbook.

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I rearranged my little watercolor box. But after finishing this drawing I squashed in one more pan. ;-)

All rights reserved. Permission required for any use. © Kathrin Jebsen-Marwedel

All rights reserved. Permission required for any use. © Kathrin Jebsen-Marwedel

Can't stop buying new colors, even if my stock of colors will reach until the rest of my life.

My stab at the scribble shape exercise in the Sketching Stuff Activity Book.

#DoodlewashMarch2025 prompt: Mahjong Tile.

Did you know the word Mahjong means sparrow, and it’s believed the name came from the clacking sound of the tiles heard during the game?

Pentel Sparkle POP Gel pens & Da Vinci Sketching Stuff watercolor in an Etchr 100% cotton watercolor sketchbook. Done while sitting and waiting for six hours at the DMV. I did a couple of very quick paintings, but since the building had little or no heat, and people were letting in the East wind every time they opened the door, my fingers got too stiff to do any more. And that’s some w(h)ine for you next time you play mahjong.

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#doodlewashApril2022 prompt: Entrance

10 Things I Noticed About Shoes

1. Tie Dyed

2. Pink Interior

3. Blue Ribbon

4. White Borders on tongue & entrance

5. White Base

6. Pattern - alternating raised & lowered

7. Pattern - opposite facing oval holes

8. Pattern - faux weave

9. Printing inside

10. Hole for foot to enter

I drew these 10 things and it became a birdhouse.

* Mary Roff Multi Media sketchbook.

* Zebra technical pen &Turner Gouache

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#DoodlewashNovember2024 prompt: Rabbit.

Did you know Nuralagus Rex was a giant rabbit who lived between 3-5 million years ago, weighing in around 26 lbs?

DaVinci Sketching Stuff watercolor on gray-toned paper in a Mary Roff Handmade Journal- etsy.me/3Q3YdYp

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