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Summer Children’s Colouring Competition

Ruth Weal — Fri, 16 May 2014 05:19:23 +0000

Throughout May/June I am inviting children up to the age of 13 to submit their colourful examples of the Caterinas for the chance to win a children’s Art party with four of their friends in either Ink Art or Embossing Art – See the Workshops and Parties page for details.

The Caterinas

All you have to do is download the entry form, print it off and colour in the design. Once it’s coloured in fill in the form and email a picture of it to info@wealie.co.uk by 31 June 2014. All entries will be displayed on the Wealie Arts section of the website and the winner will be announced by 12 July 2014.

Good luck and I look forward to seeing all the wonderful and colourful designs!

Wealie x

Artist in residence at Bristol Hobbycraft on Saturday 28 Sept 2013

Ruth Weal — Fri, 27 Sep 2013 23:19:54 +0000

Hypnotica - Abstract fine liner doodle art zentangle

I’m looking forward to tomorrow as I get to have fun demonstrating my art at Hobbycraft Bristol, Cribbs Causeway as their Artist in residence. I’m going to be doing some dylusion ink art, mono printing on my Gelli Arts Gel plate, see some examples of the different types of art I’ll be doing throughout this article.

Wealie Arts Halloween Colouring Book Cover

Dylusions Ink Art Design

I’m also going to be doing some abstract doodle art, or zentangles as they are sometimes called and I’ll be launching my very first abstract doodle art colouring book, a snap at just £3.50 Don’t despair if you won’t be able to make it to pick up your copy, keep a watchful eye on this space as I’m hoping to upload it as a downloadable pdf at some point in the not too distant future.

I’ll also be launching a halloween colouring competition for kids up to the age of 13 to submit a coloured version of one of the designs (the witches’ hat) from the colouring book, with a prize of their very own zentangle doodle art design of whatever subject they would like me to create.

Firery Waves - Mono Print

The deadline is 31 October so there’s plenty of time for the kids to get colouring and you can download a copy of the competition form and rules here. I’ll post the entries I receive on a special blog post on 05 November together with the announcement of the winner and will post a pic of the winner’s doodle choice once I’ve completed it.

Hope you all have a great weekend!

R
x

It’s National Doodle Day!

Ruth Weal — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 01:29:49 +0000

Today, 02 March 2012 is National Doodle day in aid of Epilepsy Action, did you do a doodle today? As a committed doodler I felt it only right that I provide a doodle for such a worthy cause and of course I enjoy the wonderful pass time. Below is the doodle I created especially for the day and underneath are some of my most recent abstract doodle art creations.

I hope you enjoy looking at the doodles as much as I enjoyed creating them. Why not pick up a pen and do some doodling yourselves, I promise you won’t regret it and if you read up on the meaning of doodles you might even find something out about yourself.

Happy doodling!

Wealie x

National Doodle Day Doodle - Copyright R.Weal 2012

Protect my heart - Copyright R.Weal 2012

Protean - Copyright R.Weal 2012

Doodle Design for Gemma - Copyright R.Weal 2012

When hearts collide - Copyright R.Weal 2012

Hodgepodge - Copyright R.Weal 2012

Swimming in Swirls - Copyright R.Weal 2012

Dearest Ben - Copyright R.Weal 2012

Higgledipiggledi - Copyright R.Weal 2012

Radiating Stars - Copyright R.Weal 2012

Swirling Doodles Make Great Patterns

Ruth Weal — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 20:15:06 +0000

I’ve been busy doodling again and my current doodling obsession has been back with curves and swirls. I haven’t stopped at just the doodling though, I’ve been making use of my new Adobe Illustrator CS5 skills to make my original doodles into some funky patterns that make saleable artwork. However, the process from a wandering doodle to a vector pattern is not an easy one.

I always work best with pen and paper and rarely doodle in any other way, but transferring those designs to a computer and retaining their detail and textures always has some drawbacks. I scan all my doodles in as bitmap files using my scanner, but this creates a lot of noise and a large file size. I also often use unusual inks, especially bright vibrant gel inks like metallics, glitter gel inks and Zebra Super-Marble Gel Rollerball pens, which give you three different colour inks in each pen. The ink looks great on paper, but some of the detail gets lost in the scanning process. You can buy a pack of 6 Zebra Super-Marble Gel Rollerball pens from Amazon for only £4.69, which I used to create many of the original doodles shown below.

In Photoshop CS5 I do my best to clean up the noise and bring up the contrast so the design is more visible, but to make a pattern that can be blown up and/or reduced in size without losing quality and retaining smooth edges requires converting the image into vectors. To do this I use Illustrator CS5 where I have to painstakingly draw round each of the individuals curves and swirls of a doodle and then colour the shapes. Then I’m able to play around and make my patterns. It probably sounds like a painstaking and time consuming affair and you’d be right, but it is also a labour of love.

For your viewing pleasure below are my original doodles scanned and tidied up in Photoshop together with the vector patterns that I created in Illustrator.

Happy doodle trails!

Wealie x

Swirlycules - Copyright R.Weal 2011

Swirlycule Pattern - Copyright R.Weal 2011

Curlicues - Copyright R.Weal 2011

Firery Curlicues Pattern - Copyright R.Weal 2011

Green Curlicues Pattern - Copyright R.Weal 2011

Swirl Dance - Copyright R.Weal 2011

Swirly Frame Pattern - Copyright R.Weal 2011

More Patterns Emerging

Ruth Weal — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 01:15:36 +0000

My Adobe (ACE) Course books arrived late last week and I’ve been getting stuck into the basic Illustrator course book. I’m now halfway through and starting to see real improvements in my abilities to play with and manipulate the software. In addition to using Illustrator to adapt my doodles into patterns, I’ve now started creating shapes out of joined paths and using them to create vector image patterns. Here are the first few that I’ve created.

For there is always method in madness and a pattern amidst the seemingly random!

Wealie x

It’s all in the pattern

Ruth Weal — Sat, 21 May 2011 12:00:36 +0000

I’m seeing patterns everywhere at the moment and have become more than a little addicted to
creating patterns from some of my doodles. Below are some of my favourite pattern creations that have
slithered out of my subconscious mind so far.

To see the rest of my patterns visit my flickr photo set Wealie Patterns, just try not to get lost in the patterns like me.

Wealie x