Kazoo Submarine

I love creating found object doodles and post them on Instagram, "Found Object Art" gallery on Flickr, Pinterest, Tumblr  and in my Found Object Art portfolio.

Doodle: Monster Selfie

Title of this doodle: "Monster selfie." Just spent several hours playing around with custom brushes: created some by splattering/mixing watercolor on paper, scanning, tweaking the brush in Photoshop. Creating others by scanning a photo of a texture. HAD SO MUCH FUN. Anyway I added a boat floating high above and a monster just before posting this doodle, but the background textures are what I was focusing on this aft, in addition to Sea-Monkey and Bob sketches (and no, the monster is not part of the Sea-Monkey book :-)).

Daily Sketch: "Floating"

My Daily Doodle. 

This was experiment with water textures. I used a bunch of layers and played around with opacity levels as well as layer masks. I wanted to create the impression that just the girl's face and upper torso were above the water, with the rest of her gently floating beneath the surface. I also wanted to create some interesting light reflections as well as a hint of the darker textures down below.

As is usual when doing my Daily Sketches, I didn't really know what I was going to draw when I opened up my blank canvas. I started with some watercolor and semi-transparent textures first, with blues and greens and violets, adjusting transparency. At first I was going to do an underwater scene but then changed my mind. I sketched the girl on a separate layer, then created the color of her skin, hair etc. beneath that layer.

Created entirely in Photoshop with a wide variety of custom brushes.

I've always been fascinated with water textures, and had been hoping to illustrate an underwater picture book someday. Looks like I'm going to get my wish. :-) Stay tuned for more news, hopefully soon....

Doodle: Moment Of Realization

Daily Doodle: Underwater