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Great idea!

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Thank you!

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I find your art and suggestions very accessible. Thank you!

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You're quite welcome! I hope that you will give it a try!

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Love this! I do a similar doodle-style with intersecting lines and no right angles. It’s always meditative to create like this.

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Awesome! I'd love to see, if you wouldn't mind sharing.

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Thanks for wanting to take a look! However, I don’t know how to share images in replies or DMs. Guess I’ll have to get vulnerable and tag you in a post of my doodles. 😉

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I didn't realize that you can't share images in comments of a post. Thanks for tagging me in your Note! Thanks for sharing!

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Great idea! I’ll definitely try.

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Please do, and if you don't mind sharing, I'd love to see what you do!

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my approach then is to doodle on a used (written or printed) piece of paper, and preferably in the only blank corner or the blank reverse side of a sheet. That goes from small figures to shading of surfaces, from drawing with 1 pen stroke to strange scribbles. Just with a pencil or a ballpoint pen. Until after a while I sense what really presents itself and then I concentrate on that. Those warm-ups I keep and some even surface one day as parts of a collage ;)

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Awesome. I'd love to see, if you wouldn't mind sharing!

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thanks for your reply. I don't mind, but sharing pics via comments is not an option ;)

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I didn't realize that you can't share images in comments on Posts. But I did create a Note about this if you'd like to share there. https://substack.com/@emscottart/note/c-92792882

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I adore art nouveau as well! Can't wait to try this one, thanks!

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Awesome!

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I smiled reading this. I have the same book, bought (cough) years ago when I was in my early teens and fell in love with Alphonse Mucha’s drawings. (I also had two wonderful long posters.) I still attribute my love of fluid lines and organic shapes to this.

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I got to see a big exhibit of his work a few years ago at a local museum. It was amazing to see his work in person.

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