A pretty carpet pattern this week. Some of the interior medallions remind me of kalidescope patterns. I love kalidescopes but I don't have any. I cannot resist looking through them when I come across them. There are some really incredible ones out there made from gemstones, but I even like the ones made with colored paper.
Of course, there are computer generated kalidescopes. Here is a simple drag and drop one, and we have a video kaldescope too.
Finally. Here are catch up doodles. A couple of weeks of medallions and a carpet doodle. I'll be back to regular posting as soon as I buy a new box of pens.
Medallions. Sick of them yet? I am, but they just keep coming. My subconscious has an unending supply of them somewhere.
Carpet. I haven't been making a lot of these lately. This one is pretty sloppy, but I like it enough to post it anyway.
This doodle peters out towards the bottom, but it does it in an interesting way. First, I think it is funny. The stars in the night sky give way to light snow like a bizzare weather forecast graphic. Also, what made me change in the first place? It's a mystery, folks, like all doodles.
The medallions will make a comeback next week too. I am seriously obsessed with them at the moment.
Did you spot the unfinished one? I didn't notice it until after I had posted the image.
I love making these. I can do it forever.
And the answer is.... Because I am spending all my computer time writing a novel. I am taking a whack at National Novel Writing Month.
It is hard, people, really really hard.
I saw a flyer for it in a coffee shop and decided what the heck, I'll go for it. I have no idea what I am doing. If I ever do it again, I will start thinking about it much earlier and do some research first.
I just want to see if I can do it.
Never fear, I have doodles, and I will post them as soon as I can.
A small group of mandalas this week. I am not doodling much at the moment. I am blaming it on the giant tv. I don't have to find a way to focus, the picture is enough.
Maybe it is travel. I was gone most of the time that I would have made this week's doodle.
Look at me, making excuses for something that needs no excuse. I have scattered some beautiful stars across your screen.
I don't need to make excuses for that.
Comets, diatoms, stars, cells, mandalas, medallions, rose windows, wheels, holes, dots,. Whatever I call these drawings, circles are timeless.They are all around us.
Remember when you were a kid and your teacher asked you to list all the things that you can think of that are round in 5 minutes? Here goes: sun, planets, the universe, plates, bowls, buttons, pots and pans, flowers, buttons, marbles, manhole covers, rings, ferris wheels, carousels, records (cds whatever), eyeballs, oranges, coins, hubcaps, cookies
Racked my brain and that's what I get. What can you add to it?
This is not the doodle I meant to post this week. I lost the doodle I was going to post. I have no idea where I put it. This can't be the first time I have done this, but it is really amazing that this does not happen more often. Lucky for me, I doodle a lot, and this week I had an emergency back up doodle ready to step in.
This is a very bold doodle. I am back to blacking things in. I wonder if it is seasonal? Do I make heavier doodles in the cold months and lighter ones in the warm ones?
A quick scroll shows that they started getting less blackened in May and they started creeping back in September, so it is true for this summer anyway.
Even though it was first runner-up, there are alot of things that I like about this one. There are some nice medallions, I especially like the bottom medallion. The top is unusual because it breaks out of the grid. I like how bold it is, I am finding the interplay between the crisp white and the solid black very appealing visually.
I also like the eye motif. You may be looking at this doodle, but it is looking right back at you.
I made the doodle, but didn't post it. What happened to last week anyway? Where did it go? I haven't a clue.
I am not sure what to say about this carpet doodle. It is kind of ho-hum, just another doodle, but if you look closely, there are some interesting elements. It definitely has some nice medallions. There are linked motifs, which I like. I don't normally use them. I am not sure why, because I think they are pretty.
This doodle is more interesting. The faces return. Maybe they are masks, not faces. They are very stylized whatever they represent. I have been making more and more of them, and also animal shapes. I don't know why. Doodles are mysterious.
I make nice medallions, don't you think? I am really pretty good at it, I suppose I had better be, because I make so many of them.
In the center of the panel, there are large angles, like from geometry class. They break up space in an interesting way. There is a lot of white space as well. And fields of circles and grids.
I think I could make a painting using elements from this doodle. I will keep it in mind.
Last week was hot. Way too hot. So no posting doodles for me.
Unlike most of what I do, this one moves strongly downwards. Everything is drifting down. It grounds the image.
I also thing that this doodle is really clean. It is self assured and composed, and I like that.
This week's doodle is unusual because I blackened it in after mostly doodling it.
I am pretty sure that this is the first time that I have ever done that and I have been posting doodles on this blog since 2007. When I post doodles that are blackened in, I have done it as I go along.
The little figures and vines were black. This destroyed the composition for me and gave too much weight to one small part of it. Fixed that, didn't I?