Sketching Stuff Book Now Available on Amazon.com in all formats! Click Here!
I hope you’ll enjoy my new book (over 280 pages!) with 25 pages of never-before-published rambles and over 180 black and white illustrations!
(unless it’s an e-book on a color screen, then everything turns back to color like that cool scene in The Wizard of Oz!)
I’m Charlie O’Shields and this is the home of the Sketching Stuff Podcast. Just three years ago, I started sketching and painting with watercolor and became so hooked that I created a little blog called Doodlewash. It’s since grown much larger over the years, featuring posts from hundreds of artists all over the world, and in many ways it’s your usual art blog. Until I show up and start sketching stuff and rambling on about life, creativity and other little things that come to mind. Most of which have more to do with life in general than art itself.
Sketching Stuff – Stories Sketching From Life
Being a bit shy, I’ve never appeared on video like so many of my artist friends, so I thought I would start with audio and sharing, not my paintings, but the stories they inspired. Many filled with facts you didn’t even think you needed to know, others a bit autobiographical, and some just plain fun. All of which, I hope, will inspire your own stories (please share your comments on the episode pages below!) and inspire your creative spirit! Welcome to Sketching Stuff, a collection of stories sketched from life.
Episode #12: Happy Holiday Moments
Welcome back to a very special holiday episode of Sketching Stuff! Though I know, not everyone celebrates Christmas; these are some of my personal stories of this time of year…
Episode #11: For The Love Of Family
Life just wouldn’t be the same without family. Whether it’s children, parents, grandparents, and even our pets, there’s a beautiful bond there that touches our hearts in a unique and…
Episode #10: Sketching All The Way
Welcome back to a very special episode of Sketching Stuff! What makes it so special? Well first, it’s Episode Number 10, which feels like a nice round number and a…
Episode #9: Halloween Hijinks
Since it’s around the time of Halloween, I thought it would be fun to have a selection of stories that fit the occasion. As a kid, I loved this time…
Episode #8: Little Life Lessons
As I’ve spent the last three years sketching and writing each day, my thoughts on life and art have also been captured along the way. For this episode, I’m sharing…
Episode #7: When We Were Kids
Today we’re taking a little trip back in time to childhood. And while these are stories of mine, I do hope they’ll remind you of your own memories of being…
Episode #6: Laughing Until It Hurts
In this episode, it’s time to celebrate those little moments in life that make us smile and giggle. Those bits of life that are often so ridiculously commonplace, yet rather…
Episode #5: Those Furry Friends
For this week’s episode, I thought it might fun to celebrate all of those furry friends in our life. Most of us have had a pet at some point in…
Episode #4: When The Music Plays
I write and sketch with watercolor each and every day on Doodlewash.com, collecting bits of life and stories that pop into my head along the way. Today’s episode is all…
Episode #3: Childhood Favorites
For this episode I felt like sharing some of my favorite bits of childhood. Those little things that made me smile when I was a much shorter person. I grew…
