Hello, my name is Riya Melgert,
and I'm a doodle addict. Almelo, Netherlands

I love to draw and doodle, since I was a toddler. I love colour, a lot of colour, and my favourite medium has to be coloured pencils. But I also love Graphite and Pen and Ink drawings. I absolutely love Journaling, especially in my own handmade journals. I haven't drawn for almost 18 months due to cancer and double vision. The last one makes drawing and doodling a challenge, but one I just had to face again...I love it too much to stay away from it.

I specialize in colored pencil, doodling, drawing, journaling, mixed media.

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Art Promt: Fever. Being ill for more then a year and this is one of the last drawings I made back in 2019. Hope to be back with more very soon. Have a wonderful and creative 2021

I made this grid for a small daily doodle, and I really loved it. I'm still note sure If I should color these or not.

A fun little exercise drawn with black fineliner and colored with colored pencils.

Drawing faces with black pen over watercolor dots. I loved how these tiny faces turned out.

Two girls I doodled some time ago, and now turned into these two pages in one of my journals

These are just a few of my own Handmade Journals I love to work in.

I try to do my Yoga Practice every morning, but I still am not as flexible and good as my little drawn Yogi's, ^_^.

This page, in one of my own handmade journals, I made after my surgery for Colon Cancer. And I get a lot of comfort from Yana, my sweet cat.

These are my two oldest grandkids, as they looked the last time I have seen them, almost 10 years ago. Right then Yoshua was 8 and Emma 6.

First portrait I ever made back in 2009/2010. This is my daughter, and she was 16 when she took this lovely selfie, and I just had to give it a try. I am very happy with it, and so was she.

Done with dip pen and black Talens Indian ink. The dip pen is very old, 1967, I used it at school when I was 10. The next year we started to use fountain pens. Only the nib I used was ofcourse new.

A fun experiment with some left over pieces of matting/framing cardboard. Watercolour, white and black markers.

A fun thing I just had to try, doodling/painting on small used tea bags.

Just a fun doodle I did some years ago.

First page of my doodle/sketchbook.

Coloured pencils on Canson Watercolour paper.

An old sketch from my cat Yana who loves to spent time in the garden between the flowers. Coloured pencil on Canson Drawing paper.

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