KAW-LING

I took this photograph a year ago for Day 3 of AEDM2008

Two Crows

This is my rendition for AEDM 2009. I’ve been wanting to do this contour drawing for about a year…no time like the present eh?

~SueDoodles

Sore Feet Revisited – © Sue O’Kieffe 2009

My lady with sore feet has come to life. I love her colorful, eclectic taste in clothes.( If you didn’t see her first incarnation, you can meet her here.

I had some fun memories with this, remembering long ago dreams of designing clothes (my Barbie had beautiful ball gowns decorated with hand-sewn beads). I must say, I do love my lady’s beautiful black leather heels with red leather and grey suede trim. Killer!

And that’s why her feet hurt!

Do you think she needs a background?

~SueDoodles

Transformed ~ © Sue O’Kieffe 2009

My dear friend with the sore feet from yesterday’s post had to sit down cuz her dogs were barkin’. While she was resting, I borrowed a little piece of her and created this here mandala

I borrowed the idea to create a mandala from one of my doodles from my friend Dana of Nine Tomatoes. If you’ve never seen her artwork, it’s definitely worth a look-see.

For those of you who don’t know, I am a mandala maker first and foremost who began doodling two years ago during AEDM 2007. It has become a gift to me of both relaxation and confidence building.

Please feel free to copy and download this mandala if you want to color it and post it on your blog. I’d love to see your vision of this mandala transformed!

~SueDoodles

Sore Feet – © Sue O’Kieffe 2009

Sometimes my characters crack me up.

So how I doodle is I just put my pen down on the paper and meander around the page to create the basic shape I’m working with. Then I start laying down the detail. (I know a video would be really helpful here. Someday that will be part of my skill set.)

Anyhoo, it wasn’t long before this snazzy woman who has probably spent too much time in spiked heels showed up. She told me she had sore feet, and I believe her. Poor baby has her other foot all bandaged up. Can you spell B U N I O N?

I’m going to spend some time with her(and maybe find her a good podiatrist) for the next few AEDM postings to see what else she has to tell me.

Happy creative bliss days, everyone!

Cosmic Dolly © Sue O’Kieffe 2009

I’ve just had one of those mornings where technology has not been on my side. So let me try this again.

I’m back for my third November of AEDM, the community building, no pressure  creativity encouraging annual November event begun by  Leah Piken Kolidas. I’m looking forward to focusing on trying new things, just having fun, and practicing imperfection during the next 30 26 days .

I actually created Cosmic Dolly last month, and she was lots of fun  to bring to life, with her colorful, mandala-inspired clothing and springy blonde ringlets. I think she’s fun and powerful, what with her snake and bluebird allies and spiral shield decorated with Christmas tree lights.

I ran into a snag when it came to drawing her face and found Milliande’s video on the subject really helpful. I’m having some trouble getting the video to  post on my blog, so I hope you will go to the link and take a look at her great suggestions.

Im going to practice faces this month, and play with my doodles in different ways and who knows what else I might try? I want to play some more with my photography, and maybe try my hand at writing haiku.

This is gunna be a fun month. Yee-haw!

~SueDoodles

Convo © Sue O’Kieffe 2009

I bought a new sketchbook on Friday made by BeePaper. I like this premium recycled paper. Sharpie marks lie down well. Prismacolor doesn’t go on quite as smooth as with  the Canson sketch book I had before, but that’s ok.  The book is a little bit smaller, which makes it easier to hold onto, cuz I mostly doodle in bed.

When I color my doodles, what I really like is imagining the conversations the colors are having with each other. Ultramarine shouts out Hey Violet Blue, you look pretty mysterious. Wanna hang out for a while? Aquamarine gives Neon Pink a high five and cheers Smashing. Lavendar whispers to Turquoise Here’s looking at you, kid.

Can you hear them too?

The Dance © Sue O’Kieffe

The contessa and the rock star kept just the right amount of space between them while they were getting to know each other.

Mixing it Up © Sue Doodles

I took some time off from doodling when it began to be a chore . Where’s the fun in that, I ask?

So now that Im back, I want to play with new stuff, and I definitely want a bigger playing field. Next on my list is to purchase a larger sketch book. I don’t like feeling cramped on the page.

This doodle is just about having fun with color and mixing up the media (in this case, prismacolor pencils and crayola watercolor are learning to play well together).

I wonder if somewhere there is a warehouse filled with authentic Berol prismacolor pencils? I don’t care for the new pencils manufactured by Sanford. Is there another brand you love just as well?

~suedoodles

Inspired by Sweet Peas

This is only my second time entering Illustration Friday, but when I saw the theme was Patterns, I couldn’t resist.

Follow Your Bliss © Sue O’Kieffe 2009

Sometimes the Universe sends us messages and we are asked to shut up and listen. Sometimes you ask what is most important in your life. Sometimes you discover you are a really powerful creator.

Sometimes you discover there is no going back;  all you can do is grieve and move on, and sometimes that sucks. This going for your dreams stuff isn’t always really pretty. You are asked to take stock. Will you? What happens if you don’t? Sometimes it seems that Getting to Yes requires we say No a few times as well.

What you resist persists.

These are a few of my early morning musings as I consider a message I received this morning.

The only thing I know for sure is that Following My Bliss is where I want to be.