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Halloween Colouring Competition!

Ruth Weal — Fri, 15 Nov 2013 00:01:54 +0000

Firstly apologies for the delay in announcing the results of my Wealie Arts Halloween Colouring Competition, but the dreaded flu and a few late entries meant I’ve only just gotten around to judging and publishing them.

Thank you to everyone that entered the competition I had a difficult, but fun time judging, so much so that I couldn’t decide on just one winner, but more on that in a minute. As the standard of the entries was so high I will be emailing a pdf copy of the halloween colouring book to everyone who entered.

There are three winners in three different age brackets, Millie Claridge in the 5 to 6 bracket, Sean O’Sullivan in the 7 to 8 bracket and Ashley Knight in the 9 to 10 bracket. The winners prize is to request for me to draw their very own zentangle doodle art design on whatever subject they would like. Once I’ve completed the drawing requests I will post the pictures on the website and then post the originals out to the winners

The Winners

I really loved how Millie incorporated some mixed media elements into her design and at 5 years old I think she has done an excellent job of colouring it in so brightly. Any witch would be tickled pink to wear a hat like this.

Millie Clardige - Winner 5-6 age group

What I liked best about Sean’s entry was his great use of colour and how he really gave the hat a face with his bold and bright use of colour. I also liked how Sean used vibrant wax crayons.

Sean O'Sullivan - Winner 7-8 age

Ashley really went to town on her design using sequins and glitter mixed media elements, but also colouring in the background, which I thought was really wonderful and she even sent me the original picture in the post when she must have really loved it.

Ashley Knight - Winner 9-10 age group

The Runner Ups

Tia’s entry was lovely and bright and again made some great use of mixed media. I really liked how Ruby Elena went with a colour scheme and made good use of white space. Ned used cooking oil to give the paper a translucent effect when put up to a window or the light and I really liked his witchy green colour.

Tia Claridge

Ruby Elena Williams

Ned Roberts

Joelle used pencils and created a beautiful colour scheme. Isobel had a great use of colour blocking that really made elements of the hat stand out. Charlotte went for a bright and vibrant colour scheme and I liked how she incorporated her own patterning into the mix.

Joelle Chow

Isobel Stevens

Charlotte

Anya created an incredibly bright and colourful design and put in some incredible detail. I really liked how Amy creatively used black on her design and the eyes look really spooky. Olivia went for bold colours and patterning, dressing up her picture with stars.

Anya Daburn

Amy Moore

Olivia Daburn

Eleanor used some good colour blocking techniques and the dark green really offset the pink and yellow. I really liked how Lauren added in some star stickers onto her drawing and had really good colouring in between the lines.

Eleanor

Lauren Welsh

Thanks again to everyone for entering the competition

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

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

A Wealie Doodle

Ruth Weal — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 22:16:54 +0000

A pen and ink doodle done with a Zebra Super Marble pen, size is A5. This is fairly typical of the style of doodle that I do, but I rarely fill a whole page like this. My doodles tend to be pretty organic and cover the free space areas on my notebooks. As I tend to sit through a lot of long workshops and meetings they can often be quite elaborate and attract comments from my colleagues.

Contrary to what many people incorrectly think, doodling is not necessarily a sign of boredom or inattention, in fact it can be quite the opposite. For me doodling helps to focus the mind and bleed away my need to constantly have something to do. It is also very helpful when I’m coming up with new ideas.

This one was born over a couple of days working from home coming up with my latest communications training workshop.