Miriam Badyrka is The Doodler

Doodle of the Week

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.

Doodle of the Week

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!

Doodle of the Week

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

Doodle of the Week

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. 

Doodle of the 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.