Anywhere, Anytime Art: Illustration

Project 3:

GARDEN

For this project, let’s head out into our gardens or the park and become botanical illustrators! We’ll use a free and easy doodle style to show off all the blooming flowers, grasses, and birds. Let’s start with some simple doodles of flowers using basic shapes.

Media: black pen & markers

WHAT IS DOODLING?

I’m sure you’ve done it a thousand times before—those scribbles on the notepad while on the phone, sitting in a boring meeting, or listening to a long lecture. Often doodles are just meaningless mark-making. Sometimes we doodle more representational items: a heart, a house, a tree. Usually when we doodle we don’t give much ...