Wednesday, April 6, 2011

on the edge of the ocean.




It's kind of impossible for me to sit and watch TV without feeling like I'm wasting time. My hands always have to be busy with something else. During conference on Sunday, I decided to occupy them with some mindless sketching. So I found a tiny 3x5" drawing pad in my stash of art supplies from college, and pulled out a brush and watercolor paints. In a couple hours I had filled over twenty pages with mini watercolor doodles.

It was fun and made me feel like a little kid. Maybe I'll even hang some of them up on our fridge with my pretty fabric magnets.


listen to: Fleet Foxes - Grown Ocean

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32 comments:

  1. Those are SO BEAUTIFUL. I think you've inspired me to make some of my own...

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  2. Wow! Those are so beautiful!

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  3. haha I wish my doodles look like that! I need my own painting of the red tree!!

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  4. Anonymous4/06/2011

    If only my doodles were so beautiful!

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  5. Those are almost as cute as the mini cupcakes I made today.

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  6. wow. super inspiring! i just want to bust out my old paints, except i'm sure nothing i make will turn out like your beautiful doodles. get those bad boys up on a wall!

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  7. if there was an art medium that i was most terrified of--it would be watercolor!!! so i'm very impressed and i especially love that pom-pom one. :)

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  8. Just found your blog & LOVE it :-)
    These are very pretty!!

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  9. Oh wow these are great! I want to create something now! :)

    ps. you are so welcome- I actually just moved you to the creative inspiration section, where you belong! <3

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  10. I love those puffy flowers!

    I saved all my getting ready for Conference. Make-up, hair .... Then, we (Audrey and I) colored. Then, I made a pretty cute dog out of Play-Do.

    I get so much out of conference that way!

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  11. Anonymous4/07/2011

    Lovely! Before reading your post I thought that they were tea towels. The Spring colors are inspiring and refreshing.

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  12. You're very talented, these are so cute!

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  13. Wow, these were just for the fun of it?! I love that top right one!

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  14. You should frame some of those! So springy!

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  15. i feel the same way! i cannot sit infront of the tv or watch an entire movie without doing something or making something! love love love these

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  16. Anonymous4/07/2011

    i ALWAYS have to be knitting or working while i watch movies. drives my boyfriend crazy

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  17. Angela, I'd seriously buy these. Beautiful! I've been wanting to try my hand at painting recently. I'm convinced.

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  18. i would hardly classify those as "doodles."

    very cool lady. i like the yellow chevron striped one.

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  19. These would make gorgeous Christmas cards...

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  20. I want to frame them and hang them in my dining room! I love the colors! Muy bonita!

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  22. These are adorable! You're just exploding with talent left and right!

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  23. Ang...how can one be so cute?? :)

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  24. I'm the same way, I have to do something when sitting. I love your sketches & I spy a perfect Christmas card in the red dot/line sketch.

    Check out these great conference sketches if you haven't already seen them: http://romawinkel.blogspot.com/2011/04/its-that-time-of-year-again-my-friends.html

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  25. these are pretty darn adorable for passing the time doodles! How fresh and spring like!

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  26. Such a great non-time-waster! I pulled out some oil pastels with the kids I nanny last week. They made a mess, but loved it, and I ended up a with a bunch of fun little prints myself that I didn't know I had in me :)
    KEEP IT UP! They're gorgeous!

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  27. how lovely! I love these and they'll look perfect with kenz's magnets. :)

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  28. They are so pretty and inspiring!! I want to watercolor!!

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  29. your doodles are way more than just doodles. ack! love love love your eye and all this color!

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  30. You're always so inspiring! Thanks Angela!xo

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  31. Officially SO inspired.

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  32. I just came across this and it immediately reminded me of this post.
    http://www.anthropologie.com/anthro/catalog/productdetail.jsp?id=073502&catId=HOME-OFFICE-JOURNALS&pushId=HOME-OFFICE-JOURNALS&popId=HOME-OFFICE&navAction=middle&navCount=18&color=095&isProduct=true&fromCategoryPage=true&templateType=D

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