Debbie Ridpath Ohi

A curated selection of images about reading, writing and illustrating books for young people in addition to my comics, doodles and found object art. Also see DebbieOhi.com for more about me and my work. Thanks for visiting!

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The Frog Prince, revisited.

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Painting with shadows this morning. . #shadowart #foundobjectart #shadowplay #shadowface #creativity

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“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.” - Stephen King

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Some people meditate or knit to relax. I draw ROBOTS AND DOGS.

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http://debbieohi.com/

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Grammarian party angst.

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One of my sketchbook characters made a run for it this morning! Watch the video to see how it happened.

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Continuing my experiments re: turning mint tins into travel paint sets. The empty watercolor pans I ordered via Amazon (Edit: from JCT ECO, approx. 19 mm x 16 mm x 9.5 mm) just arrived, yay! I cut up some magnetic tape and stuck a bit on the bottom of each pan. Now I can fill the pans with colors I like and switch them out whenever I'd like. As I mentioned in my earlier post, I did not invent these ideas - there are MANY who make DIY travel watercolor sets; just search for the term online. I'm experimenting to find out what works for me and will post a summary with lots of reference and resource links in Inkygirl.com when I've had more time to see how well these travel paint sets hold up over extended use.

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"The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time unlike, say, brain surgery." - Robert Cormier

(Quote above & others available as free, print-ready posters for classrooms, libraries, bookstores and elsewhere: http://debbieohi.com/read)

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Thanks to my friend Laurie Cheung for the tulips! Could not resist a quick doodle before diving into hermitworkmode. #foundobjectart #waitingforspring #tulipsaremyfavorite

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If you love a book....

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“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.” - Stephen King

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“One thing that books teach us is that if your life sucks right now, you just haven’t gotten to the good part.” - Tim Federle

This image available as a free, print-ready poster: http://debbieohi.com/read

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Fun with orange peels. #foundobjectart #foodart #bedtimereading

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Raspberry wrap. #foodart #inktober #inktober2015

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A comic for those about to do #Nanowrimo.

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Am finding it SO hard to throw out discarded candy wrappers so I've decided to just embrace it. So here's another in my candy wrapper dancer series, this one created for #inktober. Ok, NOW I can throw out the wrapper...

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Look what I found in my egg this morning! #inktober