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1. Intro to Paint and Doodle: Are you struggling
to come up with creative ideas?
You're not alone. A lot of people feel
stuck or uninspired, especially if they don't
think of themselves as naturally creative
in this video. I am sharing a simple paint and doodle method that makes the process fun
and approachable. No pressure, play. My name is Tammy and I've been
an artist for many years, and I understand what
that feeling is to be stuck and
basically uninspired. And in today's video, I show you exactly how I overcome that and start
getting creative again. Start using your supplies, and let's make something
great together.
2. Supplies for Paint and Doodle: Not all ideas have to come straight from
your head onto paper. In fact, I have
so many resources that I like to flip
through for inspiration. This is something I've had
for a really long time. But just to notice the shapes, the simple squiggles
and hash marks, sometimes you just
need to see it in action to know you really
want to go for it. Zentangles have been a number
one inspiration for me. I love looking at patterns, something like lots of swirls or maybe even a little bit of neurographic art
going on in there. Putting your lines in different directions has
always been so helpful to me. This is a new find for me. I find most of my books
in thrift stores. I find them used. This one was in great condition. One of the things I love
about Zentangles is how they explained the
process of making patterns. This book has been such an
inspiration to me lately. I also found a doodling book and I found that it's been so helpful to see using thick
lines and dots and squiggles. It's just been really great. One of the one books
I really love. This was so
inspirational for me is art starts with a line,
and it's so true. I was never a great
doodler growing up. In fact, as an adult, I found I really needed
some real inspiration. This book has been so helpful. This black and white
illustration, for example, you can just see lines, dots and lines with curves. It makes such a great place to begin to get those
juices flowing. We're using watercolor
paper today. This is not an expensive
watercolor effect. It's only 117 pounds. The book Pad is nine by 12. I have cut these sheets in half for these ideas and then
I cut them into quarters. Today we're going to be
using a quarter sheet. We'll also need a
few tools like pens. These are fine line pens. What I liked about this brand is that it doesn't smear at all. I have found micron
pens give off a ghost. Kind of a smudge. It's very light,
but I still see it. PascaPen, I like
these because they're paint pens and I can
make marks with this. This is a 0.9 and
Cigna's NOBL, Gold. Gold makes everything
better. Don't you think? Those will make
great for doodling. I also have a paint brush. Please don't think that it
has to be anything special. This is an artist's loft. It's a store brand, and it's just an eight round. An size will do. And for my paints today, just find some watercolors. You probably want four colors. My inspiration. I swatched a few, and then I didn't even
use them all on my page. This is the look
we're going for. I happen to have a palette
of Windsor and Newton and this has been a collection
I have been using lately. I'm going to pick four or five
colors to play with today.
3. Watercolor Background: For today, we are not even
going to wet the palette. In fact, I'm just using
as much water that's on my brush and I'm just
going to go for it. Just taking that
paint onto my brush, and that is it. That is not difficult, right? We're just going to have
some fun with this, picking colors that
make you happy, make you sing a little. Adding a bit of water onto that. And maybe even a
touch more color. What else shall we play with? Maybe this bright red, it's called Scarlet Lake. Touch of water on
the tip of my brush, and it's okay that we're
not filling the page. If there's white showing,
that's great too. Let's see that Winds are
orange was my first choice. Then I used a little
French altamarin and then that was Scarlet Lake. Should we do something
brighter and yellow? Let's try some yellow. Cad yellow pale. Let's
see what this does. That's a nice bright one. Kind of yellow pale, and what do you think? I'm sure I'm in an orange mood. That's one of my husband's
favorite colors. And what did that color just
take off in the yellow. That's fun. Okay,
papers buckling. I am not worried about that. I wanted to use it
especially just to show you that for this project, for this doodling experience, the paper is not
the feature part. The color isn't even
the featured part. It's just something
that makes you happy, something that you
can experiment with. Maybe there's colors you
haven't used in a while. I'm going to let that dry and then we'll get
back to our doodling.
4. Doodling Lines 1 and 2: I took my heat gun to my paper, and so that's completely dry. I want to maybe start with the fattest pen I
have. I don't know. I'm leaning towards wanting
to make a border first off. And to do that, I'm just putting down a
line all the way around. I giggle because
sometimes one of the reasons I chose to
slap on paint to not use quality paper
to just go ahead and make your very
first line is to stop the dreaded white
page to stop the fear of beginning and one
technique I really like is to go back and
purposely not trace my line to just be a bit
sloppy and have fun with this. Be okay with imperfection
to just go for it. I'm trying to get
out of my head, get out of that block of Well, basically where it all came from was me spending way too
much time on my phone. I have been watching people make art and I have been letting my supplies sit and
basically, that's wasting. I'm not using them
and enjoying them. I said, That's enough. I am ready to begin. One of the fun things
that I like to do, you might see that here
is in a border is to put in simple, simple lines. Just pick an open area and
start drawing these lines. It's not anything complicated or tricky if it goes
over, it goes over. It's not that big a deal. We're trying to break
out of our head, break out of indecision, break out of being stuck. I'm going to throw
in some dots here. I changed to a smaller pen. This is a very tiny
space to work in, so I'm going to
use a thinner tip. Actually, you know what, one
of the reasons I did use a lower quality
paper is because it actually has less tooth. It's not as rough. Sometimes we tend
to not want to use our specialty pens because we
don't want to ruin the tip. I know I've had that
fear before and then I realize what am I
saving? A few dollars. Go ahead and use them up. But if that's a struggle
for you and you feel like I don't want to
ruin an expensive pen, I want to doodle and I
want to use watercolor. But how do I do that when my
pens are so precious to me? Well, downgrade your paper and the rough texture isn't going to mess up the
tip of your pen. I know when I use my
food and suitca pens, those glide so beautifully
on a very smooth paper. But sometimes I want to
use it on watercolor. Then what do we do? The
nib gets roughed up. So now I have my pens for the
good times and my pens for the crafting time reminds me of my mom's special
fabric scissors. Don't ever use the
fabric scissors on paper. You
remember that rule? I'm going to go
back to my fat pen, and I'm just going to
start making a pattern. One of my favorite
shapes is leaf shape. This gentle slight
curve with a tip. You could make leaves that
are rounded, it's more oval. But I don't know. That's probably one of
my favorite shapes. Again, I'm back with
my fatter marker. I came to the table with
no expectations, no plan. I guess that's not exactly true because I've used leaves over and over before
in my patterns. But I'm experimenting. I've done some new colors. I'm going to do something
hopefully more unique. That one book I shared with you about it begins with a line. Art begins with a line. It is fascinating to add just the slightest curve
to not reach to the end, to have irregular line patterns, and it makes a crazy
difference, doesn't it? This time I'm going
back and forth, trying to get that
line to be a little thicker and a curve a
little different way. This is an amazing way
to try new things. In fact, if you
made a collection of these cards and put them
on a three ring binder, you would have your
own doodle sampler. That you can call up and say, I need more inspiration, I need another idea,
and there it would be. Here I have a collection of just different lines all because I just played
with that shape. What's another idea? Maybe some swirls. I think I may take
another box and do my swirls in that. That closed. Now my next one, I'm just going to
leave it closed. They look like little
snails, don't they? Going the same direction, I get that same loop de loop. If you went backwards, your curve would be different. Maybe I'll do that with some
smaller ones. Let's do that. I like to put the cap on because I can see that
number really well. Let's do my 0.1. Let's go backwards. Oh. Tammy, you're crazy. You've got the tips on wrong. Oh. Read the pen. This is my 0.5.
Well, there you go. These swirls are
open. That's okay. Filling in any spot. You could do this entire
page, this entire square, I should say, with these swirls. Let's say, I got the right
cap on five and five. Or you can change colors. Feel like dots. I'm not going to compete
with all the swirls. Having an unexpected oops does not mean the
end of the world. In fact, one of
the things that I particularly like in
this type of art, free way of designing something, experimenting, practicing, is
that there are no mistakes. Every mark that you put on here, you've
learned something. Did you like it this way? Does it need something
else? Did it need more? It's going to be a lesson. I don't want to waste a lesson. I want to embrace every
piece of this time.
5. Doodling Curves and Gold Pen: This is something I do when I'm doing my brush calligraphy, maybe I want to thicken up
one line and use these. It's like having a
sampler of ideas. This one I'll fill in. This one I can
just do in chunks. Maybe this one is some dots. What else can we
do? Curved lines. Very thin for curve lines. How about line
through the middle? I like that. That
came out pretty cool. I think this one
I'll fill in again. Hash marks. One of the tips when you're
doing Zentangle work is doing patterns and
the movement of the pattern helps your
brain not have to think. You already know the pattern, so you're not making
something up, and that is relaxing. It's freeing. It gives you an opportunity to
enjoy your process, work on meditation,
you're breathing. Maybe you're listening
to an audio book. That's kind of fun. Like I said, this is a pattern. You keep repeating a pattern, creating new patterns, altering them just slightly because you're
learning something. Oh, keeping this
one feel better. Leaving space between your ds. A shapes? Throwing in a few hearts. Ah. I don't know, something kind of made me think of a door here. Turn your paper, get
another perspective. The point of having
these idea books is also a way to
help you go for it. Just practice. Use
your imagination. Take up your pins and
your tools and get going. Don't wait for an
invitation. You go for it. Make it happen. I know I
haven't done much gold lately. What should we do with the gold? First, I thought maybe
I was making birds. But maybe these
are flower petals or leaves could stick a
stem down the center. Started to lose my shape here. Maybe these are eyes. That would be a little creepy. I've got one more spot.
This is my thick one. I'm glad I knew I looked
before I started. And maybe like a plaid pattern. When you just make lines dots, you start realizing how
many different lines, how many different dots? Are they circles? Are they poka dots? Are they more filled out on
one side than the other? Are they solid? There's just so many variations. I just find that incredible. Maybe outline them. I don't know why
I didn't think of figure eight before.
That was easy. Maybe these are seeds. It's an interesting idea. So many times I've tried to doodle and I see
something in it, and then I realize, that's exactly I can use that in another project because you
took the time to experiment. You took the time to
not have expectations. But I like that
figure eight shape. I don't know what
to do with it yet. This is a put your
pen down and scratch, you lift very quickly. I use that a lot in
flowers and leaves. Here is just so
many neat things. I think um What else was there? So zig zags. Made the cutest zig zag
shapes with my granddaughter, and we turned them into a cracked egg with a
little chick peeping out. Very cute. What else
do we have here? More lines maybe and blocked.
6. Doodling Last Line and Final Touches: The whole idea of artist
block, I get that. I understand the fear
of looking at paper, going, Oh, boy, what's
next? Now, what do I do? One of the things that I found was working with small paper, with limited palette, with an
idea of learning something. Of not coming to the
table with expectations. If that's what's
holding you back from getting your art
supplies out, try this. Really embrace the
whole concept of just trying something new
and seeing where it leads. I'm down for the challenge. Just a few more ideas to go. That's a little crazy. Awfully
tight in there, wasn't it? Okay. That's fine. Oh, I realized a
shape I didn't do. In fact, I'm going
to try it down here. Is a curve and then to come out. Can we try a curve and come out? This one's got lots of room. Curve and come out. Looks like beach waves or
hair curl in that sweet. Is there something
on my pasta pan? I think about pasca sometimes
you need to activate. But this one seemed ready to go. How about filling in some spots? Well, I completely erased my
black line, but that's okay. Let's see. See how nice
and thick this gives. Get your tools out and
really work with them. Maybe I need something thinner. I need to look
that up Pascas got a thinner a thinner tip. A lot of paint
markers are very fat. Enjoying the process. In fact, I'm so happy with this. This actually makes me smile, and I hope you had
fun experimenting. Pull out things that
inspire you, ideas, start a collection of your doodling and you'll
never run out of ideas.
7. Class Project: For your project today, I want you to take a piece
of watercolor paper. It doesn't have to be fine quality and
almost any paintbrush, something that you can
do a wash of color, choose three or four or
five and start doodling. Find inspiration in other books. You can look online
to see that as well. Start a collection
of your doodles. The more you do of these, the more you're going
to bust through that artist block and
start being more creative.
8. Wrap Up: Thank you for joining me today. We had a great time
experimenting with doodling. We took some watercolor and just made some creative washes across a piece of paper and got our doodling
juices flowing. We found inspirational
pieces from other art books, and we took those ideas
and implemented it. We practiced shapes and
patterns and color, and all of those were intended
to be a joyful process, a way to start those
juices flowing again and to show that
you are creative. Don't give in to that idea
that you've got artists block. You just need some inspiration. So thank you for joining me. Share your project in
the project section. I can't wait to see it. Thank you and have a great day.
Tammy Prara, Created to Create
