New Free Pandemic 2020 Coloring Page!

Copy, Print, Color, Share

Day 53 of quarantine and since I hope everyone is staying home as much as possible, I drew a neighborhood for you to color. I get a lot of emails asking if people can share my pages with classrooms and the answer is YES. Please share my blog and my free coloring pages with anyone you think would enjoy them. This is page 19 and all of the other pages can be found on this blog if you scroll down or click on posts on the menu on the right side of the page. 

If you are enjoying my free coloring pages, please check out my Etsy shop, Doodling Rocks. My shop is full of shirts, hoodies, hats, mugs, and totes with my hand lettered and hand drawn designs. My designs are unique and can only be found in my shop.

I started a special deal on May 1st, 2020. When you order an item from my shop and share a pic of it being worn (shirt or hat) or used (mug or bag) on Facebook or Twitter or Instagram and tag me with a link to my shop, I will send you a coupon code that you can use for your next purchase as a thank you. (offer good until July 1st, coupon good until Aug 1st)

Doodle Day SPARKS

Can you believe Doodle Day has 594 members?? WOW! I love knowing that there are soo many people doodling out there. We started as a 1 month doodle challenge in May 2013 and just kept on doodling. November 2015 marks our 31st consecutive month of doodling every day. If you don't know the way it works, join the Doodle Day group on Facebook, then you click on the file for the month and the list of doodle prompts are listed there. If there are blank spaces after any of the days, doodle members are welcome to add something appropriate to the theme. We have to keep in mind that we have doodlers as young as 4 years old in there so all doodle prompts and doodles are G rated. The prompts are there to inspire and challenge. We all know that it can be stressful to stare at a blank page and not know what to draw so the prompt lists take that stress away. Doodle Day can be used as a daily creative exercise, a warm up for a more difficult art piece you are working on, a relaxation technique, an activity to get the creativity flowing before writing a story or a business proposal or working on homework. Doodling should not take a lot of thought. Put your pencil to the page and see what happens. Try new mediums and drawing techniques. I started playing with a brush pen Doodle Day in 2013 and now that's all I use. I learned how to paint with watercolors in there. I started working with acrylics and canvas there. Doodle Day is an opportunity to create without judgement, without grades, and without the stress of it being a perfect piece for a portfolio or art exhibit. Just create. It is the most supportive creative environment that I know of and I am soo happy that soo many doodlers are there to support my love of being creative every day. 

If you'd like to join Doodle Day - click on this link and join our doodle community. DOODLE DAY

A Month of HAND LETTERING in Doodle Day

Sorry about the blog hiatus but I've been very busy doodling. : ) Doodle Day is still going strong and we are up to 511 members of the online community. Our theme this month was HAND LETTERING. Personally, I had never sat down and really thought about how to approach hand lettering. Sure, I doodled and played with names and words here and loved doing the Notan designs for Doodle Day last year but I really hadn't worked on composition and how the viewers eye will move around the piece (specifically referring to a lettering piece) until this month. I started a new sketchbook just for Hand Lettering and I'm keeping it positive, motivational, and inspiring. I didn't fill the sketchbook this month but I did average more than one doodle per day and I intend to continue to fill this sketchbook with just hand lettering. Here are my doodles from this month...

If you'd like to join Doodle Day - an online community of doodlers. We have monthly themes and daily doodle prompts. You can post your doodles, get feedback, share your ideas, ask questions, and join a very supportive group. Click on this link to join: DOODLE DAY