Maria's Doodles - #145-150

I feel bad but I have to finish off with some hidiously scanned doodles. Very sorry to do that to you guys but my laptop is screwed up badly since last night.. And Scott's scanner... well see for yourself. All of them are actually dark blue and not black or strange grey. I'm also seeing these on his monitor, so it is possible that the colors are totally different. Anyways. Here it goes.

Maria's Doodles - #137 - 144

Maria's - Doodle # 132-136

I've spent most of the past week drawing on this one. That's why I've been a bit slow on posting lately, I'm trying to focus more on larger and more elaborate pieces :).

Maria's - Doodle # 127-131

Maria's Doodle # 124 - 126

Great job everyone! :) Good to see that a few people already made it to the 150 mark! I hope everyone else follows!

Maria - Doodle's # 108-110

Doing a project involving the word "chair". :) These are some sketches for it.

Maria - Doodle's # 99 - 106

Trying to work out a new logo for my etsy shop. :)

Maria's Doodles # 87 - 98

P.S: You Are The Coolest :)

Maria's Doodle's #75-86

So I thought about different materials to draw on and I had some scraps of linoleum flying around. Initially the plan was to just draw/ doodle on (that's why some of them are written forward and not backwards) but half way through I just couldn't resist and I started carving them out, so the second half I wrote backwards (so that they would actually print the right way). I picked up some non-toxic waterbased speedball inks to experiment with (that's some WEIRD STUFF!). Being a print maker I'm used to the toxic, oilbased lithography inks, that i usually use for all my prints. Definitely not such a big fan of this speedball stuff, after inking up one little block I had to scrape my palette because the ink was already dried on it! Anyways lol that's printstuff but here is my doodled type that I've worked/ and chopped for the past few days.
Oh and I could have just gone to the printshop to print it at school but I wanted to get back to my roots ;) and hand print it without a press.




I haven't pulled good copies yet so you'll only get to see the inked up blocks for now. The bottom one I managed to print a decent 2 color copy. For hand burnishing it's not that bad. I'm usually more a fan of the perfectly crisp prints that you get from running it through a press.

Maria's Doodles # 67-74

Maria's Doodles #55 - 66

Another set of greeting cards. :)








Four doodles on one spread.