NEW! Sketching Stuff “Create Like A Kid Again!”
Creativity for Grown-Ups! With A Childlike Twist!
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Boost your natural creativity and “create like a kid again” with over 60 fun creative exercises! 
This book may look like it’s for kids, but it’s really for young adults and adults who want to be more creative in everything they do! Play, dream, or invent your way through over 60 wonder-filled activities that will have you writing, doodling, and creating awesome and innovative new ideas in your sketchbook!
Now Available on Amazon!
Sketching Stuff “Draw Upon A Time” Books!
A New Series of Interactive Storybooks!
FIRST TWO BOOKS NOW AVAILABLE ON AMAZON, CLICK HERE! Sketching Stuff “Draw Upon A Time” – in PAPERBACK or HARDCOVER editions!
CLICK HERE TO READ THE STORY BEHIND THIS NEW SERIES
Everyone is an artist with the power to draw and create! Get ready to join one little friend on a unique adventure where you help tell the story by adding your own drawings along the way! Any pencil, pen, or crayon becomes a magical wand and whoever holds it during the story becomes a wizard, helping our hero throughout the quest. This encouraging, uplifting and interactive tale is fun for the entire family. It’s for people of all ages, whether you’re a child or a child at heart. Parents and grandparents can read the story and have the child do the drawings along the way. Then, when the story and doodles are complete, you’ll have a wonderful, bound keepsake of your child or grandchild’s art to treasure forever!
Wand at the ready? Let’s Draw Upon A Time!
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Get my Sketching Stuff Activity Books!
Fun 72 page activity books in different themes with full-color illustrations for people of all ages and skill levels.
(NEW!) Sketching Stuff Activity Book – Food
Sketching Stuff Activity Book – Nature
These fun activity books will quickly get you making your own drawings and coloring them before you can say wow, Mom, I made that! Whether you’re just starting out or simply need a fun way to relax and recharge your creativity, these are the books for you! Watercolor activities are included as well, so you’ll need some watercolor paper to try those. Otherwise, you can just Scribble, Doodle, Color right in the books!
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Want to take your drawing and painting skills to next level? Awesome!
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Illustrated Memoir Now Available on Amazon.com in all formats! Click Here! 
I hope you’ll enjoy my illustrated memoir and book of inspirational stories (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!)
DON’T HAVE A KINDLE? Now Available For Other E-Readers, CLICK HERE!
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.
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