Wet Concrete Doodles

Our basement needed repairs this past week. There was a lot of noisy jackhammering and concrete dust and other chaos. But when it was all over, there was a nice blank canvas of WET CONCRETE. So here are a few of the doodles which I did before the concrete hardened a couple of hours later. I started with the handle end of an old paintbrush but then switch to a letter opener because the latter could create finer lines and was easier to control.

Potato from I'M BORED.

Flamingo from I'M BORED

Turned our new basement drain into a flower

How part of a flower bouquet shadow turned into a BirdBunnyMonster Thingy

A monster doodle for my friend Joey Shoji

Can't stop doodling tonight! Dedicating this one to my friend Joey Shoji, who wants me to do a monster book someday.

Playing around with some new textures and brushes tonight

My equivalent of fingerpainting: soooo much fun just experimenting with new Photoshop brushes and textures.

How I create my shadow doodles and how you can create yours

I'm finding these shadow doodles a wonderful creativity exercise, and encourage others to try it. All of mine so far have been from a bouquet of flowers, but you can use almost any object. If you use a man-made object, though, your biggest challenge will be to NOT choose the obvious.

You can see more of my shadow doodles on Pinterest.

I love creating found object doodles and post them on Instagram, "Found Object Art" gallery on Flickr, Pinterest, Tumblr  and in my Found Object Art portfolio.