Books with author Dawn DeVries Sokol

Doodle Diary is an interactive guide to doodling that teaches girls how to combine images with words and art journaling techniques. In the tradition of Keri Smith (Wreck This Journal, This Is Not a Book), Dawn DeVries Sokol has created a fun, easy artist's journal to get kids started with the basics. Beautifully illustrated in full color, Doodle Diary: Art Journaling for Girls provides clear explanations, instructions, and inspirations. Every page prompts a different project using a different artistic medium. For example, the Extreme School Makeover page directs you to paste a photo of your school on the page and then doodle over the image to remake it. Another page is for your movie reviews, but don't forget to add your recent movie stubs or photos from ads to enhance the page. Whether you want to doodle about your day, make lists of your favorite things, or just write down goals and daydream, Doodle Diary is a great way to learn about art while having fun. Try different mediums: Pens Watercolors Markers Stamps Add in: Family photos Ticket stubs Found art Xerox transfers Dawn DeVries Sokol provides an engaging way for budding artists to learn and practice their artistic skills. Whether it's used for practice or daydreams, this book is sure to delight artists of all ages. Dawn DeVries Sokol is an art journaler and doodler. Her blog (www.dblogala.com) provides ideas and discussions on materials, overcoming creative blocks, and prompts. She currently resides in Tempe, Arizona.

Travel for kids often means sitting in a plane, train, or car with an iPad on their laps—head down, headphones on, watching a movie or playing a mind-numbing game. In Doodle Journeys, an interactive guidebook, Dawn creates prompts that inspire children to pick up their head and look outside the window. They are challenged to imagine where they are going, what they might see. They are also dared to envision worlds that don’t exist. The book will offer suggestions of marking tools (showing a TSA-approved artist kit), ways to adhere photos, and tips for how to document with doodles. Young explorers will use prompts on pages overflowing with colorful, vibrant backgrounds to encourage them to note and document what’s around them. Throughout the book are travel-inspired doodles and quotes.

From the creators of BabyLit®: a Pet Palooza! Your little one will love Dawn DeVries Sokol’s cute and funny illustrations, from the tiny Cheeky Chihuahua to the huge Gracious Great Dane. The droopy ears of the Brave Beagle and the Kindhearted Corgi’s sweet hug are sure to delight little dog-lovers, and kindle a life-long puppy love. Dawn DeVries Sokol is the author of six doodling books, including Doodle Diary: Art Journaling for Girls, which has sold over 100,000 copies. With a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Arizona State University in 1992, Sokol has worked her way from editing and designing newspapers to art directing magazines to designing and authoring books. She also illustrates lettering, teaches online workshops, and doodles in her art journals as much as possible. Her articles about art journaling and doodling have appeared in Cloth Paper Scissors, Pages magazine, Art Journaling Exposed, and Somerset Studio’s Art Journaling, and she shot a DVD workshop, “Art Journaling: Pages in Stages” with Interweave Press in 2010. In 2012, she was commissioned to paint a utility box and design a library card for The City of Tempe. Her art journaling workshops have been favorites on Creativebug.com since she started teaching on the site in 2014. Her artwork has appeared in shows from Tempe, AZ, to Tokyo, Japan.

Many people want to lead more creative lives but find it difficult to make creativity a daily exercise. In Year of the Doodle, Dawn DeVries Sokol solves the problem with a year’s worth of interactive prompts—starter doodles, quotes, questions, and fun exercises, all on Sokol’s well-loved painted backgrounds, interspersed with collaged bits of ledger, graph, and notebook paper—meant to get would-be doodlers interacting with their sketchbooks daily. Opening with ideas for jump-starting the doodle habit, Year of the Doodle is not linked to a particular year like a calendar—instead, a year’s worth of entries are numbered sequentially so doodlers can start and finish whenever they want to jump-start their creativity.

Turn your doodles into a personal journal and into art, to boot! In the tradition of Keri Smith (Wreck This Journal, This Is Not a Book), Dawn DeVries Sokol has created a fun, easy artist's journal to get kids started with the basics. Doodle about your day; makes lists of your favorite things; write goals and daydream; try different mediums like pens, watercolors, and found art; add in family photos or ticket stubs; use Xerox transfers; and much, much more to create a casual, playful, and often thoughtful journal of your life.

A great way to get your journal jive rolling! This hands-on, mess-it-up journal offers creative tips and prompts to get boys drawing, sketching, doodling, and more. It shows how to use all kinds of materials from pens, stickers, crayons, markers, and oil pastels to gel pens, glitter, Wite-Out, collage, found art, Xeroxes, photographs, and more. Dawn DeVries Sokol is the best-selling author of Doodle Diary: Art Journaling for Girls and 1,000 Artist Journal Pages. She teaches art journaling classes and blogs at dblogala.com.

From the creators of BabyLit®: a Pet Palooza! Toddlers will meet kitties of all sizes, shapes, and breeds in this book. From the exotic Sphynx and Himalayan to the common housecat and Maine Coon, Dawn DeVries Sokol’s colorful illustrations will enchant budding cat-people, and encourage life-long love of furry friends. Dawn DeVries Sokol is the author of six doodling books, including Doodle Diary: Art Journaling for Girls, which has sold over 100,000 copies. With a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Arizona State University in 1992, Sokol has worked her way from editing and designing newspapers to art directing magazines to designing and authoring books. She also illustrates lettering, teaches online workshops, and doodles in her art journals as much as possible. Her articles about art journaling and doodling have appeared in Cloth Paper Scissors, Pages magazine, Art Journaling Exposed, and Somerset Studio’s Art Journaling, and she shot a DVD workshop, “Art Journaling: Pages in Stages” with Interweave Press in 2010. In 2012, she was commissioned to paint a utility box and design a library card for The City of Tempe. Her art journaling workshops have been favorites on Creativebug.com since she started teaching on the site in 2014. Her artwork has appeared in shows from Tempe, AZ, to Tokyo, Japan.

More colorful pet doodles from bestselling author Dawn DeVries Sokol. Babies and toddlers will enjoy artist Dawn Sokol’s colorfully illustrated pet lizards, from the curious Collard Lizard to the vibrant Veiled Chameleon, in this fun board book. The cricket-loving Crested Gecko, the bewitching Bearded Dragon, and other fun lizards will delight budding reptile fans, and foster a lifelong love of pets of all kinds. Dawn DeVries Sokol is the author of six doodling books, including Doodle Diary: Art Journaling for Girls, which has sold over 100,000 copies. Her art journaling and doodling articles have appeared in Cloth Paper Scissors, Pages, Art Journaling Exposed, and Somerset Studio’s Art Journaling. Her artwork has appeared in shows from Tempe, Arizona, to Tokyo, Japan.

Whether it’s The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants or the sisters from Little Women, there is no denying that young girls develop a strong bond as they grow up together. The Doodle Circle is an interactive fill-in journal that is passed around yearbook-style, allowing BFFs to document the tight bond they share by contributing to each other’s books.Perfect for slumber parties or after-school hangouts, the colorful prompts encourage girls to work both together and independently to ponder, doodle, and collage. When the book is complete, each girl will have a special memento of friendship as well as words of love and encouragement that will remind her how amazing she is as she goes through this fun-filled (yet decidedly insecure) time of life.

This hands-on, mess-it-up journal offers creative tips and prompts to get boys drawing, sketching, doodling, and more. It shows how to use all kinds of materials from pens, stickers, crayons, markers, and oil pastels to gel pens, glitter, Wite-Out, collage, found art, Xeroxes, photographs, and more. Dawn DeVries Sokol is the best-selling author of Doodle Diary: Art Journaling for Girls and 1,000 Artist Journal Pages. She teaches art journaling classes and blogs at dblogala.com. A great way to get your journal jive rolling!