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 Or art imitating life?

Misfill, Doodle Project Edition

Belleville Drink N Draw May 2026

 This past Wednesday was the May edition of the Belleville Drink N Draw at Egan's Pub. I worked on a few ideas for some cartoons, a fantasy job and sketched one of our sketchers, a...

Drawing a life

For a while now I have been contributing to an on line project called 'Drawing a Life'. We began the project because some of us had been part of an earlier online experiment concer...

Drawing the processes of life

Gemma Anderson-Tempini: Garden of Forking Paths; Mitosis Score no.2, 2019. Pencil, watercolour and colour pencil on paper, When I attended the drawing conference "Drawing Across Al...

[Drama Chat] Life imitating dramas

I’ve just finished Notes from the Last Row (no notes from this viewer), and the thriller got me thinking about the saying that life imitates art. One of the best things about art i...

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Finding Flowers

For our optional prompt of “Petals” today, I made a little sketch of a mouse holding a flower. This time of year where I live is always full of flowers … Continue reading "Finding...

ONE LOVELY DRAWING, part 79

 In 1966, The Cartoonist Cookbook published a drawing and recipe from each of 45 popular comic strip artists.  The book reminds us about the snappy draftsmanship on the comics page...

Flying Colors

For our optional prompt of “Dragonfly” today, I made a little sketch of one with splashes of color on the wings. These are lovely little insects that can actual come … Continue rea...

Four Preludes to Four Haikus

Four doodles using one colour-blue something or other....

Little Bluebird

For our optional prompt of “Bird Feeder” today, I made a sketch of bluebird enjoying a little lunch break. The Eastern Bluebird is actually the state bird of Missouri where … Conti...

I couldn’t have said it better myself:)

The Ideal Life

Tickle Your Funny Bone this Summer with Art Impressions!

Hi friends! Shari Carroll here to re-share this fun and punny card because it’s too perfect for the Summer season! […]

Paper Airplanes

For our optional prompt of “Paper Airplane” today, I made a little sketch of a colorful one flying through the air. As a kid, I always tried to make paper … Continue reading "Paper...

Pixel Scroll 6/20/26 But It Seems To Me, I’ve Blogged My Life Like A Pixel In A Scroll

(1) EVERY DOG HAS HIS DAY. “Cracking stories, Gromit: Wallace’s long-suffering canine companion to tell all in memoir” reports the Guardian. Gromit, the canine star of the Wallace...

Maria's Meanderings: ellish

Sometimes our tangles have stories or tales behind the pen strokes, and sometimes our pen strokes inspire stories or tales. When Maria posts a tile on the Zentangle Mosaic App she...

How I Roll

For our optional World Watercolor Month prompt of “Strike,” I sketched a bowling ball heading for some tenpins. Philippe and I went bowling this past April while visiting our famil...

Behind the Couch

pencils and hair ties...

Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, June 23rd

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.

Palesa Monareng has drawn over 100 self-portraits – and is now turning them into a book

The London-born illustrator has spent a decade building a distinctive pencil-based practice, and she's only just getting started. Ideas come to Palesa Monareng on long walks with...

Writing Lyrics

For our optional World Watercolor Month prompt of “Poetry,” I sketched a pair of headphones and some scribbled lyrics on paper. Over the past several months, I’ve also been writing...

Recent sketches (varied with lots of experiments)

A few nights ago I was in the mood for some scanning (really!?!) and the result is this blog article! It contains sketches using our recent Patreon themes of framing and darks (nig...

Expressive, Atmospheric, And Honest: The Visual World Of Pluviumgrandis

PLGR is a digital painter who self-describes as a “third rate artist with a fourth rate brush” — a self-deprecating tagline that sits in ironic contrast with a genuinely strong, ex...