Miriam Badyrka is The Doodler

Doodle of This Week and Last

It's a double bill today.
Here is last week's doodle. It has an unusual, disconnected border and a central image. Plus, everything within the border on the left is horizontal. While everything to the right is vertical. I have no idea why.

I like the shifts from one pattern to another. It makes movement between the different blocks and breaks up the space.

This carpet doodle is about 18 x 22 inches.

This week's doodle is long. Just keep scrolling. And scrolling...

 
See? It is long, just like I said, 7 x 36 inches long. If these were actually carpets, this one would be a runner.

I like this one because of the pattern within the patterns. Huh? Look at it a bit and you will see what I mean. It gives a rhythm to the carpet which I find pleasing.

This doodle reminds me of a totem pole. It is very abstracted, but I keep seeing eyes, a mouth and teeth. Do you see it too?

Looking At (the OPA show)

The Oregon Potter's Association show & sale in April is such a big show that I was glad I went with friends who were teachers. We went systematically down every row and looked at every booth. Much better than my version of going where things catch my eye.

Either way, I end up completely visually exhausted when I am done.

Here are my favorites from the show in no particular order.

 (Loose Weave series, Our Town Potters)

Our Town Pottery. Love the dots. Love that they are dimensional. Love the colors.

 Heads + heads + heads, Kim Murton)

Kim Murton had a wall of heads like this at the show. How can you help but smile? Her sculptures are fun too.

Doodle of the Week

A long, somewhat sloppy carpet for you this week. I wonder what was going on towards the bottom right, where one size triangle becomes larger. It caught my eye because, I put little circles in the bigger ones. I am not sure if I did it to differentiate them from the smaller ones above, or to tie them in with the stripe element beneath them

I am not sure I would call the two types of triangles a design error, because it doesn't look awful. By my personal code, doodles have to be done when there are distractions. These things are bound to pop up since I am not paying much attention to them while I am making them.

I think that mostly my doodles hold together remarkably well visually considering.This one is helped by the rythmic back and forth movement between horizontal and vertical chunks.

There is a glaring mistake in this one though. It is the kind of visual thing that screams at me: a pattern break. It is the first thing that I see when I look at this. Can you find it?

Doodle of the Week

I have no idea what is going on here. All I can say about this week's doodle is that it appears to have a dual personality.

I like the strange sampler style carpets which are being pulled along by team of medallions. Whee! It's a doodle wagon trail! No? Move along people, there is nothing to read here. Apparently, I have just gone barking mad.

 

Looking At

Tony Orrico, the human spirograph. How incredibly cool! (via swiss miss)

Absolutely stunning. There are not enough exclamation points in the universe to show how much I love these paintings by Sohan Quadri. The most beautiful things I have seen in ages. They speak directly to my soul. Via reckon which is always full of interesting stuff

Photographs of Ottoman architecture at but does it float.

 Clouds. It dawned on me one showery day that there was better cloud watching than star gazing here in soggy Portland. Clouds are beautiful and ever changing.No matter what great idea I come up with, somebody has always thought of it before me, and, they usually do it better! The Cloud Appreciation Society, fighting the banality of "blue sky thinking". I think I am going to join.

Ooooh ooooh oooh…. The transparent quilts of Jill Ault. My friend Lauren told me about these. I think I must make some myself.

 Blaise DeLong. Scrumptious colors!

Doodle of the Week

     I was meaning to post this one yesterday, so it is really last week's doodle. Yes, I am late. What are you gonna do, sue me? I remember hearing that phrase a lot, but nobody says it any more.

What has replaced it? Around my house, we say "Dem's the berries", which is a private joke. What do other people say? Too bad? Not sarcastic enough. Tough shit? Too lazy.

You can find anything on the internet. Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you The Phrase Finder. Go forth and waste some time.