Inspiration: Doodling & Imagery

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I find inspiration everywhere. You can too! Look at the lines, color, form or composition of something you enjoy looking at, be it a quilt, a wrought iron fence, a train car or vintage accounting paper. What is it you like, what intrigues you? The idea is not to copy another piece of art but to get ideas from it. Focus on the vivid felt circles above. Rich, saturated color. Circles within circles. Linear pattern. What could you do with circles? A painting or embroidered doodle of flowers in the form of concentric circles? It's up to you. Or the carousels in the vintage art above could inspire a quirky collaged carousel made from scrap cardstock.

More inspiration:

• Kelly King designed Art Deco, a patchwork of tiny imagery.
• Flickr artist Emaho's inspiring Big Moves is rich in texture and color.
• Molly Jean Henson experiments with doodles in Art Journal 005.
• Francoise Menzani's mixed media spring : jeunes filles en fleurs and the children abcd circus.
• Amber Gibbs deliciously embellishes her journal in Space Flower Doodle.

Stones in shades of aqua and turqoise could inspire blue doodles in the moleskine with irregular edges. Sunlight streaming through translucent paper might inspire a painted palette of fluid acrylics. Sedum plants could inspire flower doodles. Playful illustrations just make me smile! Inspiration gets you started. It helps you hop over that "blank page" stage and jump right in.

More creativity at Abstract Art: Imagery and Doodling, Simple Inspiration and Color Series: Inspired by Orange. More mosaic inspiration at Rainbow Inspiration.