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Whimsical Doodling: Just Add Watercolor to Create a Handmade Bookmark

teacher avatar Tammy Prara, Created to Create

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Whimsy Doodle Bookmark Introduction

      1:24

    • 2.

      Whimsy Doodle Supplies

      2:44

    • 3.

      Whimsy Doodle Watercolor

      3:01

    • 4.

      Whimsy Doodle Warm up

      5:29

    • 5.

      Whimsy Doodle Mushroom

      4:21

    • 6.

      Whimsy Doodle Owl

      3:29

    • 7.

      Whimsy Doodle Houses

      4:10

    • 8.

      Whimsy Doodle Wrap Up

      1:03

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Turn a wild mushroom, a whimsical owl, and fantasy houses into a giftable bookmark!  A few complimentary watercolors adds a simple embellishment to hand drawn doodles.  Any reader would be excited to own your hand drawn whimsy!

If you are a beginner artist, this is a stress free introduction to playing with color and shapes. I review the Idea Book from a previous lesson to draw inspiration for the doodles created in the bookmark project.  No special tools required, in fact I don't even use traditional watercolor but water soluble markers instead!

Three small drawings are taught in the warm up and in the individual lessons.  Sample versions are shown as a spring board of creating your own triptych. Explore the variations and create your own as well!

Have fun and if you need more ideas, look to my other doodling class:

Doodling 101 For When Your Mind Takes a Vacation

Fall Doodling Pumpkins and Acorns

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Tammy Prara

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Hi Friends! My name is Tammy and I am an empty nester who discovered a love for modern calligraphy and watercolor painting after the kids left home. Today, I embrace mixed media collage and have become an avid paper collector! I have been crafting for many years and am a self taught artist, which is a good thing since I consider myself a life-long learner! I think we each have a desire to learn and to try new things whether it be through reading, or art, or a new recipe, or assembling a new outfit. Ideas come together with action and we create! Creating something means we have left our mark in the moment, or even generationally. I see art as a way to move from chaos to beauty.

Everyone is creative and I encourage experimenting, and like Edison, you will either ma... See full profile

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1. Whimsy Doodle Bookmark Introduction: Hi friends. It's Tammy Prara. Thank you for joining me today. In today's class. I have a very simple bookmark. And we're going to combine my two favorite things, watercolor and doodling. And we're going to create a very simple bookmark, no stress bookmark. And this is for you if you are a beginner or you are, needing some inspiration for what to create next, this will be perfect. I have three simple drawings and they came from my idea book. If you've seen my past class, you'll know what I'm talking about. And so follow along simple steps. A cute, fun bookmark. And this whole project can be put into envelope art or a card. Maybe you have a birthday coming up. This would be really fun to add. So I hope you join me as we make a whimsical bookmark with doodling and watercolor. 2. Whimsy Doodle Supplies: A word about my supplies today. First off, please use what you have. But that being said, these are the products I'm using. I have some Tombow markers. They are water-soluble and dual tip markers. That means they have a marker on either end, a bullet and a brush tip. But I liked them because they're water-soluble and they become my watercolors for the project. I have Tombow, 636403133. I chose them because they are what's called analogous on your color wheel. That means they are all next to each other. The greens and the blues and the violets, the cool colors. So they look and work well together. I'm also using a Pigma Micron by Saqqara. I'm using a 0.02. It's a very hard, fine tip. To do our line doodling. I have a brush, water pen. The water is in this reservoir and you can squeeze it and water will come out the tip. You could even put liquid paint in here if we wanted to, but no, we're just keeping it with water today. My idea book from my previous class, if you haven't seen that, I hope you give it a look. But I have added to it since my class. I've put in more doodles. I'm using that as a springboard. And the paper for our bookmarks is actually a Canson paper, watercolor, £140. And any watercolor paper will work if it's a £140. I cut it into 5.5 by two to an a corridor. You make it the bookmark shape you want it to be. And we will create some doodles with some watercolor background. Join me in the next lesson as we get started. 3. Whimsy Doodle Watercolor: I am getting ready to paint my panels. Just like this sample. I used the Tombow pens and my palette is just a white porcelain dish. You could use a piece of plastic, a piece of acetate. These are water-soluble markers, Tombow 636. Because they're water-soluble, I have instant watercolor paint. That was a Tombow 403133. It's the dual tip marker. I've rubbed some onto my porcelain dish. I have my water pen, my water brush, the reservoir holds the water. You can also use a jar to clean off your pen. And look, I can activate that color. I can add more water straight from my pen. And all we're going to do is to make a square, a rough shape of a square, and fill it in. You can go as far as you want to go to the ends if you wanted to. I like leaving a sketchy border. Maybe make one corner a little bit darker than the rest. So I tap in some more and I rinse my brush. This is not complicated. This is not meant to be anything taxing, just fun play. I'm trying to approximate the same size, but that's not even the whole point. Our lesson today is about doodling. But I thought it'd be fun to add a bit of a background. And hence the bit of watercolor play. I'm going to lighten that up a smidge and make my square. Make it a little bit wider. Oh, that's a nice tall square. Look how they all three have different shapes. Not an issue, not a problem at all. Because it's fun. It's just play. And that's all there is for the watercolor. I'm going to let this dry before I doodle. 4. Whimsy Doodle Warm up: I'm going to share a few shapes that we're going to be working with. And I've put them in my idea book. Do you remember my class when we created this book? So today's, I'm going to do a house. We're going to do an owl, we're going to do a mushroom. I wanted to show exactly how I even came up with the shapes. If you look at this lumpy thing and it turns up to look like a mushroom. I basically started with maybe an upside down light bulb shape. Something that comes larger on the bottom and curves up to the top. You can make that into a vase. You can. And we turned it into a mushroom. The top of the mushroom. I basically made like a bean shape, something that's rounder on the top, that comes in like a lagoon, like a real bean. And we can fill this in. And like my example above, we could add circles. Look like little cutouts onto our mushroom. And maybe concentrate your circles on one side. And they're not great. Circles are the third just circle like shapes. The same idea translates with the owl. Kind of a bean shape or it's in or lower on the bottom. I'm just adding more of a chin in here. And kind of that bit of a mushroom shape on the bottom. Wider on the bottom. Add on the outside a wing, but you could add on the inside a wing. I just threw some swirly doodle lines in here. That was a filler we had used. Now the eyes look how many circles I've done for the eyes. One to one skinny one in the middle, one, and then loop the loop and a skinnier one in the middle. I just took his beak is one big v-shape with a curve. That's these shapes right here. That curvy V-shape fill in the I put in lashes if you'd like. Maybe a curly Q or two for feathers. Just whimsical, That's what we're working with. These little half circles on the chest. Then I even just dashed it up. Maybe add a little accent on the nose up to you. Just have fun with very loose shapes. Houses. Not too complicated. Why? Because it's just square shapes. Do you have a peaked roof? Do you have a dome roof? Maybe a dome door. Just fill in crazy doodle shapes. Let's add a window or two. Doesn't have a pain inside. These are anything in your imagination. Want if you have a really tall house or maybe that's more like a chimney. And if it's chimney, do I have stone work on here? Do I have lots of blocks? Maybe it's a castle. I'm just playing with shapes, with lines, making it really, really basic. And that's all we're playing with right here. Those are the three shapes. A bean squiggly circle. Nothing too complicated. You can do this. And if you don't have an idea, book, make one. 5. Whimsy Doodle Mushroom: So I've kept my idea book out so I can have my reference for drawing. I have my card. It's all dry and ready to go. Look at this big water drop, made a bloom of watercolor. And I love it. This is gonna be really fun. So following the same pattern, I think I might do mushroom, owl and houses. I'm not going to pencil draw. I'm using my micron O2 and my mushroom is really just a vase like shape. I'm going to start about halfway for my stem of the mushroom. And a little bit wider on the bottom than on the top. And I'm going to swap out if I have it. Another to know. Yep, here it is. And I'm gonna put my top on it. It's kind of a wobbly ovalis round shape. I come just under the stem. And that allows me to put away the attached line just above the stem. Now, you're welcome to put little arcs are full circles. I think I feel like a big circles on here. I'm going to draw one coming off the side. One oval that's going flat, maybe one that's more up and down. You can concentrate them on one side. I think I might do that. Maybe one more on the side there. And I really liked this wavy line bit. So I'm going to try to replicate that. And all I did was starting at a bend of my wobbly shape. Start there, go across and follow the line, but try not to follow the line. Maybe one more down here. And there we go. Now I didn't give myself a lot of space under the mushroom. I think I'm going to just put a tiny lines in here. And it basically is going to fill in that space a little bit of grass, that's a scribble. Maybe pretend you're writing a signature. And I'm going to make some fun. Dutifully. Wine. I have been pulling weeds lately like crazy. And I wish they were this pretty this one's going to have two kinds of bits coming off. One has an open circle, the other is a closed circle. Not hard to do. You can add more. You can add. And I'm going to scribble some grass under it also. Now this one I framed. So let's frame this one too. You can go outside your painted lines. Inside the painted lines. And you have just set a frame around your piece. 6. Whimsy Doodle Owl: Making the owl. Now this owl has a really large face. This owl has a little face because my square is a bit smaller. I'm going to stick with the larger face and maybe only face. Let's see what happens. We're going to draw not a perfect circle. Something, something jolly. Maybe a bean shape. If that helps to think about it. I'm gonna double that line. Make it that sketchy look. Now the eyes, It's three circles. So I start with one big circle and I go inside that circle and then a really narrow circle. So we'll do one. They do not have to look exactly the same. And that's the fun of a sketchy looking drawing. Then I liked it come from the inside of that one. I make us beak and come up on the other side. Maybe a little sketch right there. Twirly cheeks. I'm going to make them facing opposite ways. So starting at the bottom and going in, starting at the bunk, go back to the center. Now I'm going to color in his eyes. This is something you could use, different doodle strokes. These are just going to be squiggles right there. And I actually liked my idea of the dots on the inside. I think I'm gonna do little dots on the outside of this guy's eyes because I have a bit more space. I do like putting some lashes. Those lashes or feathers. Right. And how about a very squat little body? It's just like making a caricature. You can add a little leaf shape to the sides. And we're going to make a barber pole, some kind of swirly edging there on the side. And then I'm gonna come in and do the opposite way. I like how his little chest has some roughly feathers and those are just little half circles. Here. I ended up just making scratch marks at the bottom. 7. Whimsy Doodle Houses: Last square is going to be some houses. Now I have a nice big green square like this one. I actually thought I was making a tower with a little house. This one is more free form shape. It is not square sides. So let's see what happens. Right? We're having fun, we're just doodling. I'm going to come down to almost straight lines and I'm going to cap the top. If it's a castle, I'm going to have more of a round door. And I felt like, oh, he's got a lever for our handle, not a door knob. Then I added some stonework and so it's just lots of little lines coming from any direction. Do they touched, do they not touch? It's just kind of free form. Playing with the idea of shape. Are they break or they stoned? It's all good. Maybe another one in here. Have you ever seen a arching windows in a castle? I filled that in. This store, might need a little bit more prominence. Give it a bottom. I do like that sketchy, so I'm going to outline this shape. And I have space for house. Now you could do a peaked roof. You can make a thatched looking roof. I do. Like how it comes up and across and down. I'm going to give it a chimney on this side. And I just think there's something old fashioned about the scalloped looking roof shape. Texture on here. Going from the inside of each. They look a little bit like fish scales, don't they? Store will be more square. I'm going to give it a knob. We can add little windows to the top. And it has the pains in the window. And let's see, doesn't need another one. I won't give it a bit. The grass here. I don't have room for my tree, but that's okay. I think I will frame this one as well. Don't forget to sign your piece. Your three framed bookmark. 8. Whimsy Doodle Wrap Up: Thank you so much for joining me today. I hope you found this relaxing. The simple, just very playful, and fill in your idea book with more ideas and continue along building your repertoire of doodles. Put them on bookmarks, put them on cards to send a friends, maybe envelope art. Have a great time with it, and share what you've created in my project area. Share your projects with me and everyone So we can encourage each other and be inspired to continue to create. So how fun of you explore watercolor and fill in your idea book. Have a great day.