Have a happy whateveritis you celebrate!
I will be back to your regularly scheduled doodling in 2010 with the biggest doodle ever. I haven't figured out whether to scan it in bits and piece it into one large image, or to take a photo of it. It is all too much to consider with the holidays and travel looming.
Yes, I am just that wimpy.
This week's doodle looks like it has dimensions. It looks like four groups of doodles that have been laid on top of each other.
It makes me wonder what would happen if I collage doodles together. I have never thought of that before. I wonder what it would be like? Would collaging change the nature of the doodles? Would they still be doodles?
Putting them together would take thought. I would be deliberately altering them, deciding what part I would be using and which part I would be discarding. Would this change the random nature of a doodle?
I will think on it because I am not sure which is correct. The images themselves would be the same, but the composition would be different. How different would they be? Would changing the context in which the doodle is seen change the fact of the doodled image?
More questions than answers these days. Sounds like my life.
A nice group of medallions this week.
I like the big one on the bottom. It looks like Greek pottery to me, although it really doesn't. I can't find anything but this plate, which is not what I am thinking of.
Strange how your brain sometimes makes connections that don't really exist. Somewhere in the dim recesses of my mind are black pottery with incised concentric circle decoration. I am certain it was greek, but I don't know why.
I found these which are blackware ca. 350 - 325 BCE. I think it is as close as I am going to get without resorting to pulling out my old art history text.
And none of us what that, now, do we?
The 2009 crop circle video is here in all its glory. Enjoy!
This week's doodle looks hopeful or like bubbles, take your pick. I think it looks hopeful. I am not certain why I have that impression, but that was my initial response when I saw this one. Which is a good thing, I think.
I have been feeling not so optimistic about my art lately. I have no clue what to do with the Books and Needles project. I am trying to do some new, and not so easy things with it. Things that make me nervous. At the moment, I am on the bad side of the learning curve
Another group of roundels. I like how bold they look, but otherwise have little to say about them. I didn't doodle anything particularly interesting this week.
I like this doodle, it is a bit more organic than my usual Collection of Medallions type doodle. The whole thing revolves around the central medallion.
There is something about this doodle that reminds me of a tatoo from the South Pacific. I am going to have to do some research on this, a quick google search leads me to tatoo galleries, but not the kind of historical documentation of tribal tatoos that I am looking for.
This is a Maori facial tatoo from the 1800's.
I have breezed through a couple of tatoo galleries, but they are not really what I had in mind. Mostly it is people selling downloadable designs for you to have tatooed.
I don't have any tatoos and don't want one. I do like them as art though. Many of my doodles would fit right in.
It does make me wonder if that is what most of the hits on my blog are from people looking for tatoo designs. Could that really be it?
I took another stab at a search and came up with this, which claims to be the world's largest on line tatoo museum. This seems more like what I was after.
I love this one. I wish it was big enough to cover my bed.
I have been thinking about block printing on fabric for a while now, but haven't acted on it. I used to do quite a bit of block printing, and also incorporated it into my paintings. In my mind's eye I see this work as have a combination of block printed and embroidered elements.
This doodle may spur me to action, because I see this doodle as being a much larger scale. It is time to spring for some fabric and do some experimenting. I am really excited!
Here is the latest free embroidery doodle in my Books & Needles project. I know the name of this one, but oddly enough, I am not certain which way it ought to be oriented.
Even though I have always twisted and turned my work (this includes paintings, drawings, doodles and even the books) in every direction while working, I have almost always known which way was supposed to be up. My work has always told me which way it wanted to go, but this one ain't talking.
Here it is again, but flipped over. I think it works either way.
In my student days, I was told that it was a sign of a good abstract composition if the work looks good from any direction, but I have never really subscribed to that point of view. I think it is a good exercise to turn work. It gives you a new perspective and fresh eyes, but I still know if the piece is laying on it's side or upside down.
This piece is called The Star Factory. Do stars come from below and float up, or do they come from above and drift away?
Here is this week's doodle. I like the large medallions, but mostly this is a fairly ordinary group with a couple of pods thrown. The reason I picked this page is the carpet doodle on top. The long (for me, anyway) stretches of repeating motifs are rather unusual. Plus, I like the way that they change direction from vertical to horizontal and back again.
We went for a wet hike this morning. Before deciding to go, we checked the weather. It said the rain would come in the afternoon. They lied. Now, I have a damp dog.
I did finish the embroidery I promised last week. I just didn't get it up. I will post it either Monday or Tuesday.
While flipping through their other products, I found this picture which reminds me of Théâtre de la Mode. The Théâtre de la Mode is one of my favorite things ever. It is housed at the wonderfully strange Maryhill Museum in Goldendale, Washington. They even have their own Stonehenge.
Along the same line, from Coilhouse, strange and mysterious costumes from a 1908 production called Blue Bird.
From the Textile Blog, we have wonderful abstract patterns from 1900 by Rene Beauclair. You can see more of this work in this Flickr photostream.
A crafty thing that caught my eye. I don’t usually make things that have directions, but I may actually have to learn to fold these shells, the lady in the video makes it look so easy.
Sculptor Tara Donavan. Beautiful white on white works, meditations on infinity.This image is called Haze and is made of clear plastic drinking straws.
Ross Racine’s digital drawings of imaginary subdivisions. Simultaneously snarky and beautiful. I love the aerial viewpoint and the geometry imposed by the subject matter. (via bad banana blog)
Some resources for tapa cloth. I love the bold geometric designs.This site has a nifty little video too.
Look at these! I have no idea how or where I came upon these scary surgical instruments, but they are interesting as objects. I wonder what I was thinking when I bookmarked them. But, since it is October, they are just right for Halloween.