A Doodling Good Time

Joy is a flower that blooms when you do. 
                                                ~Author Unknown


What a fantastic and unforgettable time I had at Create Mixed Media Retreat!  My arrival began with me actually meeting one of my Fly-Tribe members, Cindy Jones-Lantier, who also was my roommate at the retreat...

Cindy was such a delight to room with and such a sweetheart!  Cindy is also the owner/author of Mixed Media May, which you simply must check out if you haven't already.  Even though May is over, you can still go back and see all the daily interviews she hosted with various mixed media artists, including yours truly.  Now that Mixed Media May is over, Cindy is having a special giveaway of lots of wonderful art.  All you have to do is click on the link I've provided and then click where it says to to get on her Linky .  You'll answer the questions she is asking you, which are the same questions she asked all of us artists.  Just click here to get to her special page to enter.  Time is running out and you have only a few more days to enter this wonderful giveaway.

After checking in we headed back to our room to check out our goodies bag...

Wednesday was a very full day for me.  I had a 6 hours workshop, which I'll tell you more about tomorrow.  In the evening, I had a three hour workshop called Doodle Soup: Jambalaya with the wonderful and creative Dawn Devries Sokol.  She prompted us with various themes, music, and other forms of inspirations.  As we worked on our doodles, she worked on hers...

Her doodles are awesome.  One thing she told us is that no one can teach anyone else to doodle.  All a teacher can do is guide and prompt you.  One doodle we did was tracing our hand and then decorating it like henna...

She also handed out a copy of a young couple from the 1950's in bathing suits and to draw any kind of a scene we wanted to show them in...

I didn't have enough time to finish this in class, but you can see they're in Times Square on New Years Eve.  I have snowflakes on one side and confetti falling on the other.  He's asking her to marry him and she says that she's thinking.

We also did a repetitive doodle.  With every project we worked on, we only worked for so many minutes, so we couldn't really finish them at the time.  Here's what I started on...

I'm hoping to finish the flowers above once I try and get back to normal again.  Fun, fun, fun!