Cut a letter shape from cardstock using a craft knife. Use it as a stencil and spray paint through the letter. Let the paint dry. Doodle over the letter with India Ink and a size 2 liner paintbrush.
Cut a letter shape from a duct tape sheet and adhere it to brown craft paper. Outline the tape letter with a black permanent pen. Fill in the outline with doodles, shapes and patterns. Continue to draw the patterns over the duct tape.
Draw the outline of a letter on wood veneer paper with a black solid paint marker. Adhere Creative Imaginations foil shapes. Paint red watercolor paint over the foil and around the letter. Let the paint dry. Fill in the letter shape with soft pastels. Write words and doodles with gel pens.
Create a background with random watercolors using the wet-on-wet technique. Let it dry. Write a letter with a dip pen and India ink. Let it dry. Fill in a portion of the letter by blending art markers and metallic gel pens.
Draw a letter onto a craft envelope with a pipette filled with India ink. Let it dry. Fill in the letter with Copic markers and blend the colors. Add doodled lines with a Copic brush pen.
Draw the outline of a letter onto graph paper with a handmade skewer tool (see page 8) dipped in India ink. Write words in between the lines of the letter shape with a black Copic Multiliner .03 pen.
Draw the outline of a letter with a fuchsia fine-tip permanent marker. Fill in the letter with a red chisel-tip permanent marker. Draw flourishes with a turquoise fine-tip permanent marker.
Form a letter with masking tape on a piece of Strathmore mixed-media paper. Place a piece of lasercut floral cardstock over the surface and spray the entire piece with LuminArte Radiant Rain spray. Let it dry. Remove the tape and cardstock. Draw the letter with a Pentel brush pen and doodle around the letter with a fine-tip permanent marker.
Cut a letter shape from a Tulip Fashion glitter sheet and iron it onto a piece of painted muslin fabric. Using a sewing machine equipped with a darning or embroidery foot, freemotion doodle over the top of the letter.
Write a letter on scrapbook paper with a permanent metallic silver marker. Draw over the letter with a variety of gel pens.
Draw the outline of a letter on bristol vellum with Tulip SLICK dimensional fabric paint. Let the paint dry. Write inside the letter shape with a black Copic Multiliner 0.3 pen. Fill in the letter with two colors of watercolor washes.
Adhere Hambly rub-on letters to black cardstock. Draw the shape of a letter around the rub-ons with a white correction fluid pen. Use a white gel pen to draw thinner lines.
Draw a letter on painted paper with a Copic Multiliner pen. Adhere different flourish rub-ons to embellish the letter. Fill in the letter with Prismacolor colored pencils and blend them with a white colored pencil.
Draw a letter on Strathmore mixed-media paper using Collage Pauge in a fine-tip applicator squeeze bottle. Let it dry. Paint a watercolor wash over the letter. Let it dry. Doodle and scribble words over the paint with gel pens.
Draw a letter on handmade paper with a Copic wide marker. Outline the letter with India ink in a plastic pipette. Let it dry. Draw lines over the letter with Tulip SLICK dimensional fabric paint. Sprinkle ultrafine black glitter over the dimensional paint while it is still wet.
Draw a letter shape backwards onto a piece of self-adhesive craft foam to make a stamp. Cut out the stamp and roll paint onto it with a soft rubber brayer. Stamp it onto osnaburg fabric and roll a clean brayer over it to transfer the stamp print onto the fabric. Let it dry. Outline and doodle around the painted letter with Tulip SLICK dimensional fabric paint.
Using Adobe Photoshop, open a collage image to use as the background.
Create a new layer. Choose a font and type a letter. Change the font color.
Create another layer. Draw the letter using a pen tablet, or import a sample letter Q from www.treicdesigns.com.
Create another layer. Add marks with various brushes and stamp tools (also available from www.treicdesigns.com).
Draw the outline of a letter with a black permanent pen. Scribble color with Crayola Changeable markers. Add more lines with highlighters and dauber paint bottles.
Doodle a letter into turquoise craft sheet metal using the Walnut Hallow Creative Metal tool kit. Use various nibs to draw the design.
Draw the outline of a letter with a black Copic Multiliner 0.5 pen. Add doodles inside the letter outline.
Paint a letter onto a mailing envelope with a Matisse Derivan liquid pencil. Let it dry. Blend two to three colors of soft pastels over the letter. Add doodles with a black permanent pen. Fill in the pattern with bright colored permanent markers.
Draw a letter onto construction paper with a handmade skewer tool dipped in sumi ink. Fill in between the letter lines with blended colored pencils. Take a photo of the letter on top of a painted background. Import the image into Adobe Photoshop. Add a layer and import a second image of scribbled writing. Change Blending Mode to Overlay and reduce the visibility of the top layer so the letterform shows through.
Draw a letter on drill cloth with a Pilot Tough Wash pen. Color the design with fabric markers.
Apply Tombo permanent two-sided adhesive to paper in the shape of a letter. Place Creative Imaginations foil sheets in two to three colors over the tape. This will cover the tape with foil. Draw outlines around the letter with Tulip SLICK dimensional fabric paint. Sprinkle glitter over the dimensional paint while it is still wet.
Draw a letter shape onto kids’ storybook paper with Caran d’Ache Neocolor crayons. Spread the color with a water brush. Outline the letter with a Copic brush marker. Doodle over the letter with colored and metallic gel pens. Add accents with a white correction fluid pen.
Collage hand-painted resist paper and color photocopies into the shape of a letter with Collage Pauge. Let it dry. Add doodled patterns around the outside of the letter with Sakura Pigma Sensei pens.
Be inspired by my artwork. Use these images to jumpstart your doodles. Create artist trading cards and collage sheets, enlarge the images and draw and paint over them, or print them on one-sheet label paper to create stickers. Happy creating!
We all have a calling, a passion, a gift that defines us and fuels our souls. For me, that is the gift of being an artist – a creative spirit with the passion to share it with others. I am a creative soul.