#365AnnieDoodles Week 19: Mountains, Moonshine, and More Stuff in Our Online Shop!

Super news, folks! We're pretty much all caught up now with #365AnnieDoodles in our online shop, which means almost 150 unique works of art to choose from, starting at a cool $20. Scroll through the series--here to buy, and on Instagram to browse and follow for daily updates--and marvel at Annie's incredible creative endurance. (Yeah, we're proud.) Let's see how it's going with our gal!

Uline--where we order our bags and backing boards--sent us a very free, very glossy 2016 calendar this month, which exclusively featured white-tailed deer. So I cut out their heads and made stencils out of them. This stag got a bit of gray, blue, and black ink, with a profusion of flowers. I love it, and think it turned out really well. It just shows you can make art out of anything-- even a cheap, late calendar from a supply company. 

Annie paints a pied pachyderm.

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I was still in animal mode when I decided to get out my elephant stencil and paint it with a harlequin-style pattern, which took forever--almost all day in the studio!--because of all the straight lines and corners. I didn’t realize until people commented on Facebook that there’s an elephant named Elmer who has a similar look! 

About eight or nine years ago, I drew and cut out a stencil of a bear with a little girl. I just recently found it, and thought it was the perfect thing to go over this background of the woods, which I had been waiting to use. I love how the little girl's smile if half hidden by the sleeve of her dress.

We had a group of bluegrass musicians come jam in our backyard a few weeks ago, and it was SO beautiful, and so melodic, and so lovely. They sounded like angels. One guy had just recently moved here from Tennessee; he drove a truck cross-country with all his things, which included ten gallons of moonshine. He brought a mason jar full of it, and passed it around. I didn't know what I wanted to doodle that day until then. 

Doodle 136. It would have been my mother's 78th birthday today. So in honor of Evelyn, this is one of her favorite sayings. She would say this if, for example, you repaired something, showed her how to do anything on the computer, or simply brought her a cup of tea. #365anniedoodles

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I've been watching a time-traveling bodice-ripper on Starz called "Outlander"--full of attractive Scottish men in kilts, heaving bosoms, and beautiful Scottish countryside--which Eric thinks inspired this doodle of hills and staircases and castles.   

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