Miriam Badyrka is The Doodler

Doodle of the Week

A comet of medallions for you today, just keep scrolling down. I seem to be on a tear with circular doodles because there are still more in this group and there are even more to come for next week.

The word comet comes from the Greek word for hair. Ancients thought they were stars with hair streaming behind them. Or that they were supernatural beings with power following in their wake. Angels rode them on their way to heaven.

We think they are icy balls of dust rocketing through the heavens. The comet's tail only shows when it is near the sun.

We may know a lot more about the universe than our ancestors, but I think they had the better stories. How about you?

 

Doodle of the Week

 
Ok, so this is really last week's doodle, but I didn't get to posting it. Nothing new there.

I like this one because of the positive and negative patchwork effect. I love the high contrast difference between black & white. I seem to go for high voltage, turn the amplifier up to 11 contrast.

I am all about purity, depth and strength when I work with color . None of those muddy in between hues for me. The same with black and white, no greys for this gal.

The difference between dark and light. Day and night, night and day. A great old song, reminds me of my dad, who liked to dance. We used to dance in the living room, a long time ago, but still a sweet memory.

 

I made myself nostalgic. Here is a clip of Fred Astaire singing and dancing with Ginger Rogers dancing to Night & Day.

Doodle of the Week

I think that his week's doodle looks like a mosaic. Some sort of extremly fancy floor made out of millions of teeny weeny tiles in some fancy mansion.

Do you want an update on why there is still no photo of the paintings I keep mentioning?

I went to take them this morning. My battery charger soesn't work. All I have is a dead battery, so now I can't take photos even though I was all set to do it. This is ridiculous!

By the time I post those, I will probably have finshed another one. How long do you think it will take before that one shows up somewhere? The betting starts now.

 

Doodle of the Week

...and still no painting! But only because I haven't shot the photo yet. I should never say I am going to post something, because then I somehow manage not to do it. Now I hear certain people who know me well sniggering.

Let's go back to this nice group of medallions, shall we? This is a big bunch, so click on the illustration for a larger and better view of the details.

I love this kind of doodle, where I start doing one thing and then end up doing something else. In this case, the change is from blacked in to outline, or the other way around. I don't remember which way it went.

I haven't decided if this bunch leans more towards floral or to stars. What do you think?