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.

Maria's Doodle's #47 - 54

My etsy shop needed some new items, so I did a set of doodle-greeting cards with respective envelopes. ;)

Maria's Doodles # 41-46

I'm realllllly loving that blue pen, I think I'll make some new greeting cards with this. Might be the next few doodles, we'll see.

Maria's Doodles # 31-40

The last spread = 4 doodles.
So we still don't have internet at the new place that's why it always takes me so long to upload new entries. No worries though ;) I'm catching up!

Maria's Doodles 18-22

Maria 's Doodle #12 - 17

So I'm almost done moving, now I'm finally finding some time to doodle again, and I can see we should have set the competition to 200 in 2 months, at the rate that everyone is going! In less than a week some are already up to 40, wow!! :) Great job guys! Those who will "finish" early I hope you won't let the 150 stop you, I hope you'll just keep going! Great job everyone!!!!!! I`m super excited for that book of doodles Racheal, RaShell and I are putting together at the end of this. With all these amazing doodles it`ll be really great!

Maria's Doodle # 10 - 11

Won't have much time for Doodling tomorrow, so I doodled my brains out today ;).

Maria's Doodle #7-9

Maria - Doodle # 3-4

Scott and I signed the lease for our beautiful new apartment today. And I went and had keys made for us right away. :) Sunday we'll move me, and in a week or 2 we'll move all of his stuff. I can't wait!!! :)

Meet: Maria Doering (defending "Master Doodler")

Hello my dear fellow "Doodlers",
since most of you are here to kick me off my "Master Doodler" throne and make me hand over the scepter I thought I might as well start with the introduction. :)
I know some of you have been nervous about the amount of doodles and the many participants, but I say, lets just have a really good time! After all we are all here because we love drawing. So see it as a challenge but also as the perfect excuse to do what you absolutely love anyways: Being creative!

Strategy:
My doodle-off strategy generally is to draw every single day and do it anytime i have more than 3 minutes of "idle" time. Meaning during my commute in the metro, on the bus or in the car (as passenger of course), standing in line, at the doctor's office, in front of the TV, etc... You'd be surprised how often we are "waiting" for something. A doodle can be as quick as a 5 minute drawing to as long as a 2 hour drawing or more. It really depends. For the first 2 Doodle-Off's I bought myself a small moleskin that fit into my pocket and purse which turned out to be the perfect size drawing anywhere without having to lug around a huge sketchbook. :) I think this is as much off my Master Doodler strategy secrets as I can reveal. Oh one more thing, the first 2 weeks tend to be the hardest, once you are used to the constant drawing routine it becomes something like an addiction ;).

My personal doodle-off Goals:
Develop 2 or 3 new patterns.
Play with some new materials.
Do at least 5 representational value drawings.
HAVE FUN! :)

I also wanted to let you know that I might be a bit delayed in posting during the first week. This Friday, Scott (the handsome man in my photo) and I are going to sign the lease for our new apartment. So I'll have to doodle while packing my life into boxes and then unpacking it all again two streets over. I love challenges! :)

Bring it on!

Maria