Charlie O'Shields

I have to admit it – I find puppets as creepy as clowns, and muppets being overgrown puppets – well, I never watched them. So when I heard the song ‘It’s not easy being green’ and not really paying attention to the lyrics, I assumed it was talking about living green to reduce your carbon footprint. I was kind of disappointed when I actually listened to the words one day, lol!

Great tree frogs Charlie! I agree with you that our style is in us. We just need to create art regularly!

These frogs have personality! Great sketch.

Love your greens, Charlie. I think the best greens come from mixing the colors and yours are wonderful. Sesame street made its debut when I was in college and I remember my child psych teacher talking about the show in our class. Years later, when I was working from home and had a tv close to where I was working, I got hooked on watching the program. I loved those characters.

Nice frogs! I spotted one yesterday sitting on a lily pad in my pond. He looked quite content there.the lilies have grown so much this year that it’s almost impossible to see a fish. Every once in a while you might see a flash of orange where there is a gap in the pads, but there aren’t many gaps.

They are so adorable!!! Ya i think for myself i love to watercolor mostly in soft layers that is what drew me to watercolors creating that soft mood. 🙂

Fantastic sketch! Love the colors, the sheen, the expression of the frogs!

What a beautiful sketch..and your words are simply marvelous! It aint easy being green…:)

Fantastic

I love these little frogs. I’ve stopped using green and mix my own. It’s not as easy as you think.

Lovely these two frogs!Great doodle Charlie!

These are great! Kudos to you for making yourself use other colors! Yep, Kermit was the first thing that came to mind for me too. Oscar was my friends, but I had already sketched Dopey. I agree with your idea that it is easier to sketch everyday when you do what you like. Therefore, I continue to sketch my dolly’s. 😉 I can’t explain why I love to do them, but does that really matter? Nope!

Beautiful

Fascinante, me gusto las transparencias

I love the way you use color and your story is inspiring! Thank you for sharing the tools that you use. I’m always curious about that. And thank you for sharing your artistic journey with us.

Thanks so much for sharing your story and your gorgeous art!

That is beautiful!

Thanks for sharing your inspiring story and beautiful work!

Fantastic Charlie and great angle! We had big old elm trees in our town which were fantastic to climb. So sorry that they all had to be cut down. Good memories remain!

wowza!!! Love this so much so fun and whimsical Charlie!!!! Happy week!!! 🙂

Wow…amazing….
It is nice view! Nice angle!

Love the prospective in this one Charlie. Awesome 🎨

Super perspective done so well!

I’m much the same way about finding something new. In fact, generally once I have something really figured out and am getting good at it – I’m bored with it and looking the next new up and coming thing!

I was a tree climber too when I was younger. We had a box elder on the edge of the woods by our house, and it was an easy climb. The tricky part was the step from the elder to the giant oak next to it. I mainly chickened out, but every once in a while I’d make the leap and feel quite brave for a few days, until I had to do it again.

Great doodle,Charlie. I used to climb apple trees in an orchsrd. There was one I couldn’t climb because i couldn’t reach the lowest branch. It was like a measure of me growing,because eventually I could climb it.

Love this, Charlie! Looks like a wonderful adventure.

I love, love, love this! So cool! I didn’t have time to sketch in the morning yesterday, so I panicked last night. My sketch shows it. At least it got done! I need to see if they make those treat toys for cats. My cats begs for dinner for an hour every afternoon. I can’t wait until we change clocks again! Tee hee!

Thanks so much, Marisela! 😃💕 Glad you enjoyed this! I was actually a chubby kid! hehe 😉 And as for Phineas, I’ve painted him quite a lot. This was one of my earliest ones – https://doodlewash.com/phineas/ – and this was a fun one – https://doodlewash.com/the-diary-of-phineas-oshields/

Aww that’s awesome! Phineas is bilingual as well… with French! 😉

Thanks so much, Sharon! 😃💕 Aww so happy you think so! I’m trying to practice storybook illustration more when I can!

Thanks so much, Mugdha! 😃💕 So thrilled you enjoyed this one!

Thanks so much, Shawn! 😃💕

Being a city girl we didn’t have many trees..but I loved going to the parks and beaches for outings to see nature in its finest..Fond memories…thanks again for a lovely painting and lovely words!