Doodle No. 29 Green Hole with Shrimp

If you ever visit a green hole, be sure to get a souvenir while you’re there. 

Someone challenged me to draw a black hole using a tiling other than the regular square one. That’s why there are triangles. Plankton and 2D RNA structures decorate the surface. The gold planet and most of the little dots shimmers in the light with mica paint. 

4” square

Prismacolor black ink, Faber-Castell Polychromos pencils, Finetec mica watercolor paint on Stonehenge 250 GSM 100% cotton paper. 

Original available: https://www.etsy.com/listing/704139530/

Doodle No. 27 Bunny in a Triangle

Bunny spends some time in a Sierpinski triangle thinking about lunch.

3.5” by 5.5”

Prismacolor black ink, Faber-Castell Polychromos pencils, and mica watercolor paint on Stonehenge 250 GSM 100% cotton paper.

Original available: https://www.etsy.com/listing/716925693/

Doodle No. 19 Cat Planet

The colors are very 2019, including by Pantone’s 2019 Color of the Year, Living Coral. 

8” by 10” 

Faber-Castell Polychromos colored pencils and Prismacolor black ink on Stonehenge paper

This piece is sold, but you can buy swag if you want!  I made stickers you can find in my Etsy shop here https://www.etsy.com/listing/713103849/doodle-sticker-collection

Also, I designed this piece specifically to be printed on shirts, stickers, mugs, etc., which you can find here. Www.gwenbeads.threadless.com I just ordered a shirt for myself in blue. It’s quite nice for twenty bucks. Sadly, the ladies fitted large is too big for me. So I have it to my sweetie. 


I’m not sure what this contraption does, but it obviously has a lot of functionality. 

Forgive the bit of reflection on the cat’s face. I have it temporarily sealed in plastic to keep it safe. 

Doodle No 16 Triple Black Hole with DNA

The image size is 5” by 7”. 

Prismacolor black ink and Faber-Castell Polychromos pencils on archival, acid free 80 lb paper

This piece is sold.
Thanks for looking. 

Doodle No. 15 Pitchfork Bifurcation

Doodle No. 15

Pitchfork Bifurcation

Faber-Castell Polychromos pencils

Neenah acid free paper, 80 lb

5” by 7” image on 7” by 9” paper

I have a complicated relationship with yellow. I’m pretty sure it has something to do with the yellow and orange bedroom I had as a child. Everything was covered in a print of orange and yellow California poppies, and all of the furniture was painted yellow. Tying it altogether was a huge carpet in a perfect shade of yellow mustard. After the yellow experience, I had more than my fair share for years, and I didn’t like orange much either. I eventually brought orange back into my pallet a number of years ago after a friend successfully convinced me that bright orange is the color of happiness. Yet, that yellow carpet haunted me. With this piece I decided to put my biases aside and go full yellow mango on the background. 

Overall, this color palette is very 2019. Search for “color pallet 2019.” And you’ll find these colors. So if you don’t like them yet, you should reconsider.

The pitchfork bifurcation was the kind of thing I studied in my graduate abstract algebra course. The class had something to do with resolving “bad” points in the solution set for an equation by introducing another variable and changing your point of view. I didn’t really understand the symbolic representations and manipulations very well, but I could reproduce the kinds of pictures in the textbook in great detail. My professor seemed to think that showed enough understanding of the material for me to pass the class. It seems the biggest change between then and now is the cat. 

And yellow. 

And a lizard for Marty. 

This original is sold.

Thanks for looking.

Doodle No. 13 Cusp

I’m in love with my new colored pencils. 

We might run away together. 

Doodle No. 13

Cusp

3” by 3”

Faber-Castell Polychromos colored pencils and Prismacolor markers on Borden & Riley 108 lb paper

I don’t know what you see, but mathematicians call the point in this surface a cusp. Sure, the algae and aliens make sense, and probably even the diatoms and other microbes, but I don’t know why the mean value theorem is there, or the challah. So don’t ask. 

I colored this piece with my new colored pencils. I purchased a complete set of Faber-Castell Polychromos colored pencils. I am now the proud owner of 120 colors in the metal tin. 

That’s almost 50 more colors than my current set of Prismacolors, which is a box of pencils I’ve had for over twenty years. Polychromos are all the rage now in the colored pencil community. People say they are among the best colored pencils you can buy. They’re harder than Prismacolors, which means fewer broken leads and sharper tips. That translates into finer details. Polychromos also have fewer colors with poor lightfast ratings than Prismacolors. So the purples will still be purple many years from now, as if that matters.

This piece is not for sale because it’s a birthday gift for a good friend.

Doodle No. 10 Coral Hole

3” by 3”
Prismacolor ink and pencils on Borden & Riley 108 lb paper

This piece is sold.

I made this one tiny so I could fill up all the space because filling up all the space is so satisfying. 

Doodle No. 9 Inside a Donut

Donuts are more delicious on the inside.

5” by 7” Prismacolor ink and Prismacolor pencils on 108 lb Borden & Riley Paper

Sold.

Find shirts, mugs, notebooks and stickers, printed on demand, in my Threadless shop: https://gwenbeads.threadless.com/

Thanks for looking. 

Doodle No. 8 Double Black Hole

Sometimes, you have to go full double rainbow.

8” by 10” Prismacolor ink and Prismacolor pencils on 108 lb Borden & Riley Paper

This piece is sold. 

 Detail.

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Doodle No. 7 Black Hole with Bubblegum Planet and Bacteriophages

Who knew there was a whole planet made of bubblegum? This black hole is plagued by phages and other microbes.

5” by 7” Prismacolor ink and Prismacolor pencils on 108 lb Borden & Riley paper.  

This piece is sold, but you can buy t-shirts and other items with this image here: https://gwenbeads.threadless.com/designs/doodle-no-7-black-hole-with-bacteriophage

Thanks for looking.