Miriam Badyrka is The Doodler

The return of half circles, horses, a head, and some dogs which may or may not be dacshunds in this week's doodle. If they are, I think its weird, because I have a labrador.

Anyway it reminds me of the strangest dog/owner interaction I ever had. This happened years ago. I was out roaming around the neighborhood. A dacshund ran over and chomped on my ankle for no apparent reason. The owner who is on the porch hollers, "Go ahead, kick him if you want."

I did want. Thing was chomping on me.

I will leave it to you to decide if I did it or not.

Doodle of the Week

This week's doodle. That's all I have to say today. I am tired and/or boring. You pays yer money and ya takes your choice.

Doodle of the Week

This is a biggie, so just keep scrolling.

The medallions have less visual weight than the carpet. They are far more open and are a kind of visual resting place. I like the little animal shape that has begun to appear. The motif only faces one direction, which I think is odd. I flip it around, but only draw them facing one direction. I don't know why that is. Doodles are mysterious.

Doodles and Marginalia

I knocked over a pile of doodles and noticed that many of them have cryptic little notes on them. Here is a random sampling:

If you are not going to kill me, I have things to do. Anthony Gormley. History of the World in 100 Objects. Locksmith.George Dawes Green. Don't know what makes you so dumb, but it really works. Aardvarks. Folly & glory. 3:2. Wretched hive of scum and villany. Symbol of fertility vs symbol of death. I'll strike you down with the worst form of leprosy. Everything that existed as well as the inner meaning of existence. April 1906. You inbred puddle of piss. Sound as symbol. He's always talking about his inferiors, but no one can find them. Plunging whole hog into a celebratory spirit. Napolean didn't understand naval strategy. Charlie Kaufman. A zigzag series of cracks. You cannot *&%! the future, the future *&%!s you. Who wrote A Rainy Night in Georgia. Join the effin' club of everybody. Sesquipedalianism. Wallendar credit. These boots aren't made for running. Lipstick on a particular platypus. Epimetheus.

Epimetheus is a color name from a paint chip and the guy/god/whatever who was married to Pandora. I thought that was incredibly strange and random name to give to blue paint.

Doodle of the Week

 

A pretty carpet pattern this week. Some of the interior medallions remind me of kalidescope patterns. I love kalidescopes but I don't have any. I cannot resist looking through them when I come across them. There are some really incredible ones out there made from gemstones, but I even like the ones made with colored paper.

Of course, there are computer generated kalidescopes.  Here is a simple drag and drop one, and we have a video kaldescope too.

She's Back

Finally. Here are catch up doodles. A couple of weeks of medallions and a carpet doodle. I'll be back to regular posting as soon as I buy a new box of pens.

Medallions. Sick of them yet? I am, but they just keep coming. My subconscious has an unending supply of them somewhere.

Carpet. I haven't been making a lot of these lately. This one is pretty sloppy, but I like it enough to post it anyway.

Doodle of the Week

This is not the doodle I meant to post this week. I lost the doodle I was going to post. I have no idea where I put it. This can't be the first time I have done this, but it is really amazing that this does not happen more often. Lucky for me, I doodle a lot, and this week I had an emergency back up doodle ready to step in.

This is a very bold doodle. I  am back to blacking things in. I wonder if it is seasonal? Do I make heavier doodles in the cold months and lighter ones in the warm ones?

A quick scroll shows that they started getting less blackened in May and they started creeping back in September, so it is true for this summer anyway.

Even though it was first runner-up, there are alot of things that I like about this one. There are some nice medallions, I especially like the bottom medallion. The top is unusual because it breaks out of the grid. I like how bold it is, I am finding the interplay between the crisp white and the solid black very appealing visually. 

I also like the eye motif. You may be looking at this doodle, but it is looking right back at you.

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.