Miriam Badyrka is The Doodler

Doodle of the Week

This week's doodle is a return of the carpet doodle.

Formed by simple, crisp and clean line, this doodle is all about the intricate patterning.

The patterning sometimes gets lost when I black them in. The blacked in doodle becomes about contrast between black and white rather than patterning.

Last night I watched Exit Through the Gift Shop. The film is about street artists and a guy who wants to make a documentary about them, and failing that, he becomes an artist himself. Last night when I watched it I took it at face value. But as I think about it today, I am wondering if it is a mockumentary, like Best in Show.

It was fun to watch, interesting to see these artists doing their thing, and impressive to see how they worked the media to promote themselves. I think it is the scale of the thing that rings false with me now. The film may just be some more media manipulation by some masterful self promoters. Have you seen it? What do you think?

 

Doodle of the Week

Here is this week's doodle, just barely sneaking in under the wire.

I often think that groups of medallions look like they are moving upwards, this group actually has a bottom line. This is what I imagine I would see if I was looking really closely at water just beginning to boil. Are bubbles like snowflakes, each one different than the next? I hope so.

My 200th Doodle

Yep. It is true, this week's doodle is the 200th doodle that I have posted to this blog. No one is more suprised about it than I am. Yey me! and all that rubbish.

Last week I made two resolutions, and I said that I would report back. I promise you will not have to sit through my to do list as a regular feature here. It would be way too boring.

I did do pretty well this week. I have been down in my studio working every day. I have been looking at my website, but I haven't quite decided what I am going to do about it.

So, back to doodles. What do you think of these? I like it that they overlap and touch. It gives the group a more organic feel than usual. If you stare at them for a minute, it looks almost like they are moving.

I can envision these scattered in water, jostled by a current, floating like lilly pads.

Doodle of the Week

It is a whole brand new year, and this year I am giving myself a clean slate. So there will be no catch up doodles from the holidays this time.

I like this carpet doodle, it feels nautical to me. The stars and waves give it a jaunty air. The 22 simple medallions provide white space and break up the strong interlocking zig zag movement.

Do you make any resolutions? Do you keep them? I don't make them, so I have had no problem keeping them. But there are things that I meant to have done last year that I haven't done yet. So maybe I should try a few resolutions. I have read that if you tell people about them, you are more likely to succeed in keeping them. Keeping them simple and specific helps too.

I meant to redo my website, which I have totally neglected in favor of this blog. This week, I am taking a long hard look at my site, and deciding how to proceed.

I have started painting again, after a long side step into folding books and embroidery, but I have lost my consistent 5 days a week studio practice. This week I will go down to my studio every day. That sounds kind of silly, but going down there is the key thing. Once I am down there, art will happen.

When I post next week's doodle. I will let you know how I have done.