Doodles Instead Magazine Issue 03

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Editor's Note

Featured Art Mediums

Design Basics: Typography

Art History: Printmaking

FEATURED ARTISTS:

Lady Vasiliki Mitchell

annette Back

Van Leigh

SCULPTURE tALK: Nefertiti bUST

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Editor’s Note

Doodles Instead is a digital magazine that features artists, their creations, history of art and more. The magazine aims to provide a platform for emerging artists to showcase their work and connect with a wider audience. The magazine will cover a wide range of artistic styles and will feature a variety of mediums, including painting, sculpture, photography, and go further into the history of certain styles. Doodles Instead Magazine is not just an online magazine, it's a community. The magazine will be a place for artists to share their stories, their inspirations, and their creative processes.

Whether you are an artist or an art lover, this magazine is sure to be a source of inspiration and creativity.

Stay tuned for more updates and be sure to follow Doodles Instead on social media for sneak peeks and behind-the-scenes looks at what's to come In this article we will discuss Pop Art, storyboards, and a famous sculpture located in Bratislava.

Photography

Painting

The process of using pigment and colors onto a surface. It’s a form of visual arts capturing expressions of ideas.

Meaning drawing with light, photography is when you capture an image by recording light by an electrical image sensor or a chemical material such as photographic film.

Sculpture

Pen&Ink Drawing

Lines and shapes coming together to form images using tools such as pens and ink.

Taking hard or plastic materials and working them into three-dimentional objects.

Typography

Print

Process of creating a template of an image or text, covering it in ink, and then a transfer process in to paper or other objects.

The use of letters, words, and creating fonts

Mixed Media

Using various art techniques and mediums, combining them into a single piece of art.

D E S I G N B A S I C S

Typography

Typography was created in the 11th century along with moveable type. It is. the use of arranging letters creating words and works of art using letters It surrounds us all on a daily basis without us even thinking about it. Typography was used to create books, magazines, and public works.

Typography has become very important in art when trying to convey a message, communication, and informing. It aides in brand building and peoples decision making. There are many fonts that exist! , Remember, not one day goes by that you, yourself, isn’t looking at or passing by the art of typography.

What is typography?

Art History: printmaking

It was discovered that printmaking began in the Han Dynasty China from a woodblock print on silk Printmaking art is when an image or text is made and then transferred onto paper or other objects with the use of ink Printing techniques to create templates include woodcut, etching, screenprint, andlithography

This form of artwork has become very important in society throughout the years It allows artists to share copies of images that can be reproduced on a mass scale As well as, a source of communication to pass information and document texts in the form of books, illustrations, and maps Print has allowed information to spread and be seen everywhere and distributed toeveryone

In the 15th century print began to evolve where artists began to all detailed borders, backgrounds, and more complex designs. The 16th century shed light on printmaking masters that included Albrecht Dürer (German artist), Albrecht Altdorfer, Hendrik Goltzius (engraver), other artists and publishing houses dominated printmaking In the 17th century engraving and the evolution became commercialized and other parts of the world had an increase in etching In the 18th century Italy was the center for printmaking in Europe In the 19th century lithography was invented The 20th & 21st century brought much change, with the invention of photography and entering into the digital world When 1976 rolled around artists and societywasintroducedtotheinkjetprinter While artists still learn and create art with old school techniques in printmaking, the advances of the digital printer and photography made it so printmaking was no longer the leading way to reproduceartandtext.

Sources: HistoryofPrintmaking PrintMoMA

Featured Artists

“Live to create”

HUGE shoutout and thanks to the support from artists reaching out and participating, making this magazine possible! THANK YOU!

L A D Y V A S I L I K I M I T C H E L L

C O N T A C T :

Lady Vasiliki Mitchell is a selftaught Contemporary Abstract Artist, born and raised in Washington, DC with upbringing by way of Prince George’s County Maryland She grew up singing, acting, and playing instruments But was always hands on creating with paint, crayons, pens, and pencils. Always seeing things in color, dressing in colors, and doodling, you could never have told Lady in a million years that her life would full circle to art.

At the end of 2022 Lady said that she was going to feature her artwork in various exhibitions and art galleries The website www.icreateup20.com was created for portfolio display. Lady searched on all platforms until the sun came up for avenues and venues to feature her artwork at

By the beginning of 2023, Lady was booked onto a show but had to decline because of responsibilities. She said to herself that if the time is to be now then she needs to make the time now! And she did!

Lady Vasiliki has been featured in 12 art exhibitions/ galleries up to date including a magazine feature (Canvas Rebel) Her artwork has been sold to 2 art galleries (201 Consortium and APAC) and is currently in a slew of homes across the US. Lady is a Brand Ambassador for A Spectacular Black Girl and Boy Art Show She has made 4th place in the QuarterFinalist Round of The Supreme Sneakerhead Contest. 2023 year has been phenomenal! Lady has been a featured artist on A Spectacular Black Girl Art Show twice (March 6th and August 6th), Pancake &Booze three times (April 13th, July 13th, and November 16th), Capital Office Park Art Show (May 18th), Trap Art Show twice (August 17th and November 30th), 201 Consortium Art Gallery (August 11th), Art All Nite (September 30th), Eckington Day Art Vending (October 21st), and the Supreme Sneakerhead Contest 2023!

What is your inspiration?

“My Mother is my motivation. After losing her, I lost a major part of me that I know will never be replenished so at least go harder than yesterday meanwhile having grace for myself. I push pain through paint, not painting from a dark place because I accept the reality I am still here so show the world who you are, is my mentality My Mother was beautiful inside and out and raised me just that way. ”

A N N E T T E B A C K

“When I see something beautiful, it inspires me to create. A photo might inspire me, the face of a child or raindrops. Color also inspires me Color is everything It makes me feel happy, at peace and loving life Most of my work is colorful and bold.

I am attracted to textures, patterns and shapes found all around me, nature or man made I like to use photos and text that I paint over with layers upon layers of colors, lines and shades. I use many different techniques to achieve my vision

I have a degree in Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York City. I work as a creative director for web and print projects ”

V A N L E I G H L A V A R

C O N T A C T :

Animalia and The Hall of Bulls ~ because I am inspired both by my Native American heritage and my reverence for art history, I have chosen to paint cattle with reverence and respect Cattle are the most ancient and historical of all art subjects, as evinced by the cave paintings in Lascaux, France. (although my current works are reflective of Bovine, I am available for all animal commissions, canine, feline, equine bird etc ) I am a member of Cow Girl Artists of America.

To continue, my family heritage includes champion bull riders and ranchers who tended the herds on the ZX Cattle Ranch in Eastern Oregon. The ZX Ranch is one of the nation’s Largest Cattle ranches Interestingly, by the end of the 1930’s the ranch owned 230,000 acres and further leased another 1.5 million acres. I can only imagine the early artists in Lascaux, being consumed with recollection of the power and spirit of the Auroch bulls (Upper Paleolithic cattle )

So much that they created what archeologist have deemed, “The Hall of Bulls ” (Gallery of Cattle)Truly cattle are our ancient, collaborators of art culture and arbiters of appropriation. I created my own series, titled, Sala de Toros (The Hall of Bulls) to honor this first art gallery and its subject matter Moreover, I carefully, choose to add my own presentday, visual experiences within this genre. I have included cameo appearances of crows, who in modern times have a symbiotic relationship with cattle In creating this series, I worked from memory, firsthand sketches, and photos references. An additional muse is Rosa Bonheur, (16 March 1822 – 25 May 1899), the most famous, female artist of the last century She was renowned for her style of animal art, called Animaliere.

Most excitedly, this will be my upcoming series of special Bovine, in a project headed by agencies in several European countries It is thus, that I continue the homage to our beloved bovine My paintings in this series are medium to large, painted on either toned canvas, linen, or board, using oil paint.

My work is to be found throughout the world as decorative imagery on many different products including collectible phone cards, puzzles, key chains, mouse pads, and cutting boards Additionally, many of her limited edition prints are now found on the Secondary Market. I am an internationally, recognized canine artist and was invited to display at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show in 2009 I was also commissioned by, The California Waterfowl Association to illustrate and design their first, limitededition, collectible ornament.

She has illustrated 4 books to date and is working on several more. I am listed in Who’s Who Among American College and University Students 1997, for work in the conservation and restoration of several polychrome statues belonging to the Catholic Church. Her illustrated books include:

Tucker’s Tale by Christopher Walsh, Surf Doggy USA by Barbara Boyer, Mr. Topper the Magical Pot Bellied Pig by Liam Maher, and her own book, Pillow Land Puppies which she wrote and illustrated, it includes an appendix of the classic prose by Francis Thompson, “The Hound of Heaven.. “ The Squirrel Superhighway by Anna Morrisson.

Director of Academy Art of the West Ms Lavar teaches ongoing classes and specialized seminars.

“Everything you can imagine is real.”

― Pablo Picasso

Sculpture Talk

The Bust of Nefertiti

This famous sculpture known as the bust of Nefertiti was created out of limestone. It would have been made in Egypt, the New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, ca. 1351–1334 BC. This bust was a symbol and used for ancestor worship. The colors and paint used allowed it to stay intact.

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