Miriam Badyrka is The Doodler

Double the Doodles ( or I Did It Again)

I made the doodle, but didn't post it. What happened to last week anyway? Where did it go? I haven't a clue.

I am not sure what to say about this carpet doodle. It is kind of ho-hum, just another doodle, but if you look closely, there are some interesting elements. It definitely has some nice medallions. There are linked motifs, which I like. I don't normally use them. I am not sure why, because I think they are pretty.

This doodle is more interesting. The faces return. Maybe they are masks, not faces. They are very stylized whatever they represent. I have been making more and more of them, and also animal shapes. I don't know why. Doodles are mysterious.

I make nice medallions, don't you think? I am really pretty good at it, I suppose I had better be, because I make so many of them.

In the center of the panel, there are large angles, like from geometry class. They break up space in an interesting way. There is a lot of white space as well. And fields of circles and grids.

I think I could make a painting using elements from this doodle. I will keep it in mind.

Doodle of This Week and Last

 

Last week was hot. Way too hot. So no posting doodles for me.

Unlike most of what I do, this one moves strongly downwards. Everything is drifting down. It grounds the image.

I also thing that this doodle is really clean. It is self assured and composed, and I like that.

This week's doodle is unusual because I blackened it in after mostly doodling it.

I am pretty sure that this is the first time that I have ever done that and I have been posting doodles on this blog since 2007. When I post doodles that are blackened in, I have done it as I go along.

The little figures and vines were black. This destroyed the composition for me and gave too much weight to one small part of it. Fixed that, didn't I?

Doodle of the Week

I probably should have saved this one for Halloween or Day of the Dead. Like most kids, I remember Day of the Dead for sugar skulls. This is exactly what it sounds like, sugar with a gruesome factor which made it even better.

I have no idea where the skulls and death masks in this doodle came from, but I like them.

I flip paper around a lot when I am doodling, so there really is not a specific orientation. It doesn't matter as much with abstract images. The skull images make it seem like it ought to have one. If it did, I think this doodle would be flipped 90 degrees, but if I do that, the image was much too small.

So, crane your neck if it bugs you, or just flip your laptop.