Sunday Sketch - Watercolor Flower Doodle

Here are some flower doodle I did in pencil in my notebook.  I had the background already painted with Dr. PH Martin's Hydrus watercolors with a bit of Ninji Pearlescent Watercolors on top.  I used my go to pencil for doodling, a Staedtler Mard technico with HB lead, and added details with a Sakura white gen pen.  

Here 's the doodle in my notebook, it looks really cute peeking out from behind my Sacred Road card from church.  

BTW, the bottom says "Brandon Butler is awesome!"  I was demonstrating to Brandon (the hubs) how I would use colorful the paper to take notes and doodle. 

Wednesday Work in Progress - Owl Doodle Mandala

I've been working on this one for a while now, and I thought I would share it.  Maybe it will help me get to work on the completion of this particular mandala, this giant of a project.  Please excuse the image quality, I really need a better lens!

Here is a detail shot of the pencil drawing I start off with.

Once everything is penciled in, I work on outlining everything with my Koh-I-Noor Rapidograph pen (.25 mm), then fill the lines in with a bigger pen (.30 or .50, depending on what I have to fill).  Here's the outline.

And about a third of the mandala completed.  I do much better when I outline the whole thing, then fill lines.  My lines are more even when I do.  But I often can't wait to see what the sections look like and go ahead and fill them one section at a time.  

Here's the whole piece.  It's on a 19x24 piece of Bristol, and it is the biggest mandala I have ever attempted.  That's probably the reason it sits on my piano, only 1/3 done, waiting for me to make time to finish it.  

   

Soon I'll have this one done, and I will be sure to post the finished piece.

I Will Exalt Thee Ink Version Finished

I've been working pretty hard on this doodle, I Will Exalt Thee (ink version) and just finished it last night.  Check out my original doodle here to see the humble origins of this drawing.  This is the first in a series I am calling "Art as Worship."  If you like this doodle and want to print it out for yourself, click the image below for a link to download a PDF copy for printing.   

I'll be working on a watercolor version of this next.