Oodles of Doodles, 2nd Edition: Creative Doodling & Lettering for Journaling, Crafting & Relaxation

by Suzanne McNeill CZT, Tonya Bates (Contribution by), Emily Adams (Contribution by), Jaime Echt (Contribution by), Donna Goss (Contribution by)

Overview

Make creativity a daily activity with adventurous doodling! If you think you can't draw, this book will convince you that you can. Doodling is a relaxing and fun form of expression that is easy to learn. Whether you are decorating your journal, scrapbooking a sentiment, or personalizing a birthday card, you’ll find just the right motifs and techniques here to fire up your imagination. Add movement, style and attitude to your drawing with original designs for borders, frames, banners, alphabets, arrows, hearts, flowers, and personal goals. Use a template to build your confidence in your freehand skills, or enhance your doodles by adding dimensional accents and flights of fancy. Oodles of Doodles, 2nd Edition offers inspiring advice for doodling with pencils, pens, gel pens, paint pens, markers, and more.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781497204133
Publisher:	Fox Chapel Publishing
Publication date:	07/10/2018
Edition description:	New
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	6.90(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Suzanne McNeill is the author of 230 craft & hobby books and 15 Zentangle books, Suzanne McNeill has been called "the Trendsetter" for arts and crafts. Dedicated to hands-on creativity, she constantly tests, experiments, and invents something new and exciting. Suzanne is the woman behind Design Originals, a publishing company dedicated to all things fun and creative. Winner of the Craft and Hobby Association's Industry Achievement Award, she is a designer, artist, columnist, TV personality, publisher, art instructor, author, and lover of everything hands-on.

Tonya Bates spends her time creating crafts and fine arts. She enjoys paper crafting, painting, sculpting, ceramics, drawing, decorating and playing the piano. Many of Tonya's beautiful designs have appeared in craft books.

Emily is the Education Director of Imagination Project, the artist behind their production line, Circus Rose, and co-designer of Project Essentials. She has been a CKU professor since 2002 and teaches all over the US, as well as internationally. Emily has been published in scrapbook magazines and has been featured on ten DIY Scrapbooking episodes.

Jaime has been teaching and crafting for the past 20 years. She loves portrait photography and finds that scrapbooking allows her to combine her photographic interests with her passion for beautiful papers. Jaime designs papers and templates for The Crafter's Workshop. You can see more of her designs or contact her at www.thecraftersworkshop.com.

Donna Goss is an innovative and energetic multi-media artist. She has created stamp art since 1992. Her talent repertoire includes, soldering, collage, scrapbooking, beading, jewelry and metalwork.

Andrea Gibson designs jewelry, layouts, and cards and teaches at shops, workshops, and Scrapbook shows.

Cyndi Hansen has been crafting all her life. She has worked as a craft designer and as a florist. Cyndi loves designing album page ideas and projects that add flair to memory books.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Why Doodle? 6

Getting Started 8

Materials 10

Techniques 14

Doodles 24

Nature 26

People, Places & Things 50

Abstract 76

Seasons & Holidays 88

Letters & Numbers 106

Borders & Frames 124

Word Art 142

Projects 152

About the Contributors 160