Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Doodling

Update 6/2013: This post from 2008 is one of the most popular on my blog, due to Pinterest. I just learned that Joy (the author of the fun books below) passed away in 2009. Please read more about her here.


I got these books by Joy Sikorski off my bookshelf downstairs and I'm going to set them out in a basket with some colored pencils for some summer doodling fun...

How to Draw a Clam
How to Draw a Radish
How to Draw a Cup of Coffee
Squeaky Chalk

If you aren't familiar with Joy's books, here's a sample drawing lesson...



{image used with permission from Joy Sikorski}

10 comments:

  1. Julie - On the Dot CreationsMay 20, 2008 at 5:45 PM

    What great books! I'm going to try that birdie tutorial. I think even I, who can usually draw nothing more complicated than a stick person, can do that one! :)

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  2. love.boxesMay 20, 2008 at 7:20 PM

    Thanks so much for sharing these. My daughter will love them!

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  3. aubreyannieMay 20, 2008 at 11:18 PM

    uh. you own the coolest books and things. and now i know how to draw a bird from an arrow. sweet.

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  4. claydancerMay 20, 2008 at 11:53 PM

    I stumbled onto your site looking for paper star instructions for, of all things, girl's camp. Yeah, I found another LDS blogger:)

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  5. AnonymousMay 22, 2008 at 2:47 AM

    I looked at the ladies website and she has heaps of free drawing lessons, thanks!

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  6. Amanda ConleyMay 22, 2008 at 7:46 AM

    Totally cute! My boys would love these books!

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  7. ThimbleannaMay 22, 2008 at 3:36 PM

    I wanna live at your house! How fun to have those books out and available for those little moments of down time!

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  8. Busy BetsyFebruary 26, 2012 at 3:15 PM

    Just stumbled upon this post and as a result ordered one of the books. My kids will love this. Thanks for sharing this.

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  9. MandyMarch 16, 2012 at 10:24 PM

    thanks for this! how fun~! unfortunately, your link isn't working to the artists site??? it's one of those "this domain name may be avaliable things"...

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  10. jessMarch 17, 2012 at 9:44 PM

    Thanks for letting me know. Unfortunately, it looks like Joy's site is no longer available so I updated it to an Amazon link to her books.

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Thanks for your comments...love to read them!