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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

Wealie Art Designs on Clothing & iPhone Cases Available to Buy

Ruth Weal — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 01:13:19 +0000

I’m pleased to be able to let you know that you can now buy some of my Wealie Art
designs on clothing and iPhone cases at redbubble.

You can purchase t-shirts, long sleeved tees and hoodies for both kids and adults and there are also baby t-shirts and one piece outfits for the little ones. The clothing is available in a variety of designs and background colours to choose from.

The iPhone cases are available for the iPhone 4 and 4S models.

Additionally you can also order greeting cards & postcards, posters, stickers, calendars and photographic, canvas, framed, mounted, matted and laminated prints of my artwork and my best photographs.

Thanks for taking a look at the designs.

Wealie x

Here’s a few examples of what’s available:

iPhone Cases	T-shirts & Hoodies
Kids Clothing	Stickers
Calendars	Greeting & Post Cards
Posters	Framed Prints

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

My first pattern - Copyright R.Weal 2011

Swirly Gig Pattern - Copyright R.Weal 2011

Heart Flower Pattern - Copyright R.Weal 2011

Multi Coloured Heart Pattern - Copyright R.Weal 2011

Monochromatic Swirly Gig Pattern - Copyright R.Weal 2011

Checkerboard Pattern - Copyright R.Weal 2011

More Doodles

Ruth Weal — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 18:56:29 +0000

I’ve been at the doodling again and here are my latest doodles for you to have a look at.

Enjoy

Wealie x

It's all in the pattern - Copyright R.Weal 2011

Purple and Gold Emblem - Copyright R.Weal 2011

Target Practice - Copyright R.Weal 2011

Marble Emblem - Copyright R.Weal 2011

Golden Emblem - Copyright R.Weal 2011

Circuitous Route - Copyright R.Weal 2011

Fevered Imaginings

Ruth Weal — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 18:33:49 +0000

I’ve been pretty busy of late with work and one of the ways in which I am able to decompress is doodling.
Here’s my latest doodles for you to have a look at.

The designs are all a mixture of metallic, pastel and neon gel pens on white card.

It's All A State Of Mind, Gel ink on card A4 - Copyright R.Weal 2011

Kapow! Gel ink on card A6 - Copyright R.Weal 2011

Concentric, Gel ink on card A6 - Copyright R.Weal 2011

A matter of heart, Gel ink on card A6 - Copyright R.Weal 2011

Swirling, Gel ink on card A6 - Copyright R.Weal 2011

Its not trigonometry, Gel ink on card A6 - Copyright R.Weal 2011

Swirly gig, Gel ink on card half A6 - Copyright R.Weal 2011

Swirls

Ruth Weal — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 20:11:15 +0000

My latest doodles created using some spiffy new metallic pens on plain white paper. As usual they are very swirly and colourful, with a lot of concentrated detail in a small space! The largest piece is A Matter of Swirls, which is A6, the other two are approximately 50% of A6.

My favourite is Swirly Gig, which reminds me of some kind of primordial starfish like creature, but I’m pretty pleased with all three.

Enjoy.

Wealie x

Popping my Illustrator Cherry!

Ruth Weal — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 00:58:01 +0000

Sorry for the long absence, but with the less than ideal internet connection in the hotel on the Isle of Man and being really tired when I got back, I’ve just not had the will to turn on the laptop until today. Anyway, I’m back to normal now, so thought I’d better update the blog!

Last week I finally stumped up the cash and indulged myself by buying the Adobe CS5 Master Suite. I spent most of today installing the software and getting rid of old versions of Photoshop and Dreamweaver and a selection of other software that does the same thing as the Master Suite. Then there was the fun of ensuring that all my Photoshop presets were copied over and setting up my preferred workspace view. Well once I’d gotten that out of the way it was about 10 pm and I started at 2 pm!

After all that I felt like I needed to have a little play around, so opened up Adobe Illustrator, which I’ve never used before. It took a little getting used to, but with the help of the lovely Ben who’s a bit of an expert in Illustrator I came up with this:

I’ve called her Irene the Illustration and she was created without a graphics tablet I might add. It was good fun and she does look similar to the face doodles that I occasionally draw in notebooks and on scraps of paper. I can thoroughly recommend having a play with Illustrator if you haven’t done so already.

Happy electronic doodling!

Wealie x

The hidden gems you forgot you created

Ruth Weal — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 22:43:44 +0000

Being of an artistic persuasion, I always have a pen and notebook on me wherever I go in case I need to do a doodle or write a piece of poetry or prose. I usually buy an Elfin Diaries Notebook each year, though I have never yet used up an entire notebook in a single year – I’ve actually still got blank pages going back to my 2004 notebook – which incidentally was my first one!

I also used to keep a compact camera in my bag for those moments when you see an image you just have to capture, but now I’ve got the iphone I can at least leave that out of my bag. I must admit though that the quality of the iphone pictures and video isn’t as good as my trusty compact -Pentax Optio S6 and I’m currently investigating a new Compact that I can go snorkelling with, not to mention the Pentax K 7 that I’m coveting! So watch the blog for more details of my forthcoming gadgetry purchases!

But, I digress – today I want to talk about some of the hidden gems I’ve found just in my Elfin Diaries Notebooks of 2004 – 2010. I had obviously just forgotten about them and I feel a little bit guilty now that I see they aren’t all that bad.

First up are the doodles, which I often have a lot of in notebooks at work, scraps of paper, backs of receipts, etc. These were all quick snaps taken with the iphone of small doodles in the moment, so the quality’s not great, but I was too lazy to get the SLR out tonight .

Incidentally if you are interested in pagan calendars and diaries then you really should check out the Elfin Diaries Shop, you can buy diaries, notebooks, calendars, t-shirts and home grown incense, it’s quite eclectic, but they run out quick, so don’t leave it too late either! The really nice thing is that they are all designed and managed by one lady, Caroline Heaney who named the diary after her beloved pet dog Elfin! It’s nice to support a small business like Caroline’s that has got a great following worldwide now and yet Caroline is still as personable and friendly as she was when she sold her first diary back in 1990!

Anyway – back to the doodles!

This next doodle is a bit more involved and I can clearly remember creating it during a very long workshop way back in 2004! I remember thinking I wonder if I could fill the whole page during the meeting. I don’t think I quite did it, but when I got home I felt compelled to complete it and this was the result. The actual size is A6, similar size to a holiday postcard.

I promise I’ll take some nice pics of these doodles with my SLR at some point and upload them to my flickr photo stream, but in the meantime I think you get the idea.

And finally here’s a poem that I obviously forgot to finish and add to my poetry folder! Funny really, because it’s quite a nice one, even if I do say so myself, though I have tweaked it quite a bit from it’s original format in the notebook, hence the two birthdays for it!

Enjoy

Wealie x

HE GAVE HER ONLY WORDS

He gave her only words

He gave her no kisses
Nor granted her wishes

Just old fashioned solace
Without fancy polish

So honest and tender
That made her heart render

He gave her only words
And the writer fell in love