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3-D Doodling Your doodles don’t have to be flat any more! From "B. Original" episode DBOR-305

Doodle in 3-D today!

It’s time for your doodles to stand up and be noticed – literally! In this easy B. Original project, Michele Beschen takes doodles 3-D by executing them in new media: glue, caulk and even rope. She’ll embellish an old magazine rack with 3-D doodles, then paint it to give the relief sculpture even more graphic punch.

Start scribbling down ideas, and scroll down to learn how to bring them up off the page with 3-D doodling. It’s a fun way to B. Original with your doodles.

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3-D Doodling

Materials:

old magazine rack or small furniture accessory
flat black paint for base coat
paint for top coat
caulk
glue gun and hot glue
white glue
rope or twine
scissors
sharp knife
spray polyurethane

• Choose a small furniture accessory with flat surfaces to embellish with 3-D doodling. Michele Beschen selected a magazine rack.

• Sand the piece and paint it with a flat black base coat. Let the piece dry completely.

• Doodle out some designs on paper to decide on a design for the piece. If you have trouble coming up with designs, look at books on doodling or online for inspiration.
  

  	Figure A
  	Figure B
  	Figure C
  	Figure D

  
  

• Start doodling on the piece with the glues, caulk, rope and/or twine. Keep designs fairly simple (figure A).

• If the hot glue starts to spread out too much, let it cool and set up slightly. Then come back and continue to build up the design.

• Caulk is more stiff than hot glue, and designs using it will stick up higher from the surface.

• Use white glue for small detail areas.

• Rope is a great tool to create all sorts of squiggles and rounded shapes (figure B). Tack one end of the rope in place with hot glue, draw a few inches of the design with hot glue and press the rope into the glue (figure C). Continue doing a few inches at a time until the design is complete. Use the glue sparingly when working with rope; try to avoid too many unwanted glue globs. Use a sharp knife to cut and trim the rope as you go, and add any fine detail with specks of hot glue.

• After the glue dries, clean up any glue remnants around the rope.

• Whatever the medium, let the adhesives dry completely, then paint over the design with house paint or acrylic paint (figure D).

• You can cover the entire piece with the top coat or let some background peek through. You can even paint in details in a contrasting color after the top coat dries.

• Once the final coat of paint is dry, protect the piece with two coats of spray polyurethane.

Congratulations! You’re doodling in 3-D!