Crafts: Doodle Art
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How To Make A Simple Folder To Hold Your Pastel Drawings
If you follow me on instagram on my art account @sara.rivka.dahan, then you certainly know that I’m on a journey to make 100 5″ x 7″ oil pastel drawings/paintings. (If you don’t follow me, please do, I need you!) More on that later, the big question is, what to do with them all, especially since…
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Passover Pyramid Craft From A Cereal Box!
With Passover arriving this coming Saturday night, now is the time to fit in some last minute crafting in anticipation of this wonderful holiday, and possibly keep the kids busy with a crafting station so you can finish, or continue all the holiday preparations! The essence of the holiday is to tell the story of…
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Whimsical Botanical Doodle With Color And Tiny Birds!
Right about now is a great time to take a minute and sketch or doodle something that says spring! And what could be more spring than botanicals and mama bird feeding her baby? My instagram followers (follow me here) loved this illustration, so I thought I’d share it with you, my dear blog readers! I…
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Whimsical Bear Portraits Make Perfect Party Decor!
As you may realize, I have been delving into drawing and painting and sketchbooking and art journaling more than actual crafts this past year, but that does not mean that our house is suddenly lacking festive decorations, infact just the opposite. Because dear friends, brightly colored or whimsical paintings, whether on paper or in my…
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Paint And Doodle Heart Birds!
After filling many pages in my sketchbook with layered heart paintings, covering a cardboard box with graffiti hearts, and even making an actual layered hearts painting on canvas, the natural progression might be to start seeing things in those heart shapes, and what did I see? Why birds of course, because there are plenty of…
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Doodle Fish Gift Tags
Okay dear readers, it is time to face the facts, the Jewish holiday of Purim is coming up in exactly two weeks, so now is the time to get started with the preparations! This year I think I’ll start with the thing that I generally run out of time for at the end, gift tags!…
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Trees In Bloom On A Milk Carton Craft!
Tonight is the wonderful Jewish holiday of Tu B’Shevat, so it is time to get crafting, either to create decor for the holiday, or as an activity to honor the holiday. After all, whimical paintings of trees in bloom gracing milk cartons is something one can certainly enjoy for a good few months? I just…
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Folk Art Trees In Bloom Doodle Painting
Looking for a fun tree doodle, that is simple with great results, and that you could even use as a Tu B’Shevat craft? These folk art doodle trees are sweet as can be, and look great as is, on paper, but one could also draw them on cereal box cardboard and use them for a…
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Simple Doodle Trees Painting For Tu B’Shevat
Tu B’Shevat, the Jewish New Year for fruit bearing trees is this coming Wednesday night, so now is the time to make some simple tree-themed crafts to fill your home with joy! We are fortunate to live in Israel where we witness the blooming of the very first fruit tree, the almond tree, right around…
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Milk Carton Houses With Graffiti Hearts!
I really can’t count the times I’ve planned to make milk carton houses, nor how many milk cartons I have packed away in the basement for those dream projects, but I can report to have taken one tiny step forward with these milk carton heart graffiti wall houses! I realize it sounds like I’ve never…
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Stand-Up Cardboard Cake For Every Occasion
Need a fun birthday or special occasion decoration that is artful and a pleasure to make? How about a cardboard stand up birthday cake that will put a smile one everyone’s face? We’ve been enjoying this cereal box birthday cake that I made for some family birthdays in December for quite a few weeks now,…
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A Peek In My Sketchbook: Whimsical Watercolor and Pen Animals!
Now that I have finally embraced the idea of using my sketchbook to experiment with all kinds of drawing and painting, things are starting to get interesting! I have never drawn anything even remotely similar to the whimsical animals I’m sharing with you here, and I actually really love the results. Stretching one’s comfort zone…