Doodles Become Fine Art

The process of converting doodles to fine art is a simple one. I thumb through my hundreds of doodles looking for inspiration. One of them ultimately catches my eye, and I begin to envision how it can be enhanced with colour, and in many cases with the addition of other doodles.

Colour Whale

Colour Whale is a classic example of the doodle-to-art process. It began as the black and white doodle shown here, which was scanned to begin its transformation. The final colours were "borrowed: from Lone Loon, which was hand painted. This means that the colours on Colour Whale contain natural texture and brush strokes.

Emperor and Chick

This piece is an actual hand painted ink and acrylic original. It did not begin as a doodle that was then transformed. It began as an image stuck somewhere in my mind, which made its way down my neck and through my left flipper onto the paper.

Lone Loon

This piece is also an actual flipper- painted ink and acrylic original. However, it previously existed as a flipper-painted original done all in blue.

Red Fox

This piece started out as a complete doodle, but I thought I should jazz up the original tail. I also tried putting a gopher in his mouth, but I didn't like the result!

Green Goose

When these two doodles were each created at two different points in time, there was no notion that they would ultimately join together to form this piece!

Bright Owl

Bright Owl started out obviously being an owl doodle. However, when it was time to transform him into fine art, he needed a suitable tail!

Two Sparrows

These guys started out as a framed ink creation about thirty years ago. A trusted advisor (Mrs. PenguinM) did not like the stripes, so recently the sparrows took on a new look. Actual red paint was scanned to provide a final hand-painted texture.

Snow Goose

This is a very recent creation, with the original doodle only requiring an extra feather and a splash of colour. The colours were "borrowed" from Colour Whale.

Peacock

This piece of art is comprised of 16 individual original doodles! The doodles that became tail feathers were stretched and/or skewed into shape.

Polar Bear

I thought the original doodle's pencil tone gave Polar Bear the appropriate look. However, to make it uniform, the use of some texture from CorelDRAW took it up a notch.

Painted Pony

I knew immediately that this guy deserved a beautiful tail - not like the one I originally sketched! I also knew the doodle I dug up to serve as his back fin required some change. This is the first time I ever played around with digital doodle alteration, but I like the result.

I also tried him with a baby, but didn't end up going that way.

Squid Ink

This piece was customized, with three of its arms representing the purchasers and their cat (angels, cat paws and initials).

Of course, this could be individually customized for other owners (and of course, their pets) as well!