T is for Tiger and Toucan

For the month of August I'm doing the 

Hobonichi Challenge art prompts: 

"It's a Zoo Out There!"

What fun to draw animals, some that

I have never seen. Thank you Internet

for reference photos for art!

I think I may have used this same photo 

before to draw a sea otter.  I think he's so

adorable floating on his back, looking so

relaxed!

Sun Bear and Red Panda. Cute little

face on the red panda...

Yes, I work in more than one planner...

and multiple sketchbooks too. After all, 

it's not hoarding if it's sketchbooks! ha ha

The top planner (red) is the Hobonichi A6,

in which these little watercolors are 

created. 

Had to add a fun photo of one of my daughter's

flower beds.  It's beside their basement steps, 

hence the reason for the fence. I said her flowers

looked so much better than mine! She admitted

she's been putting on fertilizer every week. 

Maybe I need to take a page from her book!

The summer has flown by so quickly! Just 

thought I should add some pretty blooms

to the blog before they're gone. 

Linking up with Bleubeard and Elizabeth

for T Tuesday. Stop by for a beverage and

a chat. Can you find the coffee cups that

I doodle on my pages nearly every day? 

 Gotta have coffee before I do all the things.

Hobonichi Planner Doodles

Click on any image to enlarge

Have you ever noticed that the planning

for and anticipation of an event is 

half the fun?  I agreed to do a

Doodle Demo at a Planner Event

in Columbus, Ohio

last week. I really had no idea what

to expect...

I made four posters with doodle designs

penciled in, so I could easily see the steps

to go through as I demonstrated. How nervous

would I be? Would anyone even want to try?

So happy that the group was enthusiastic

to try drawing!  I confessed that many of the

designs were straight from Pinterest (though

the Pins don't always give you a step-by-step) 

The coffee icons were fun to do, but most of us

agreed that we make it at home. One person

asked about tea, and I did have a tea bag

drawing example to show! A couple of people

were delighted by the coffee and toast

doodles that I draw from breakfast. Toast 

is pretty easy to draw...

I think the really important part of the 

Toast Doodle is 'dropping down' those little

lines at each rounded corner to create the

 'thickness' of the toast. Add a few 

lines to suggest the crust, a few dots

 to suggest the texture of the bread,

 and add color. It's gonna be 

pretty small in your planner, and it's not a

fine art piece. It's just for fun! I did add a 

couple little shadows in the last step with

gray watercolor. (make sure the shadows on

each item are on the same side)

And I'm ok with wonky and sketchy!

I feel that I need some new purple watercolor.

I'm not a fan of purple to begin with, and 

mixing it with the colors I have seems to

really dull the hue and look muddy. I need a

'bluer' version of purple. I thought the violets

and the lavender just aren't the right color.

But I can live with it.

Above, is what happens when I'm behind

in my daily journaling. I make

 notes on the page about what happened

that day, what got done, what didn't.

 The drawings might come later. 

Doodles may get added in later also-

even weeks later if I spot a blank space

that I think needs filled.

I hope you will try making some coffee

-or tea- doodles today. Thanks for stopping

by. Linking up with Bleubeard and Elizabeth

for our weekly T party. Join us for a

beverage and a chat!

P.S.  I think this might be a new record for the 

number of cups in one post...how many did you see?

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