Miriam Badyrka is The Doodler

Doodle of the Week

In college, I learned a lovely myth from China.

Long ago, there were 10 suns. Each day, the sky goddess would choose one to drive across the sky in her chariot. The other nine suns would play all day. One day, all the suns decided to go up together and the heat of all of them together was so strong that it caused a terrible drought. A great archer was given 10 magical arrows to shoot them out of the sky. According to the story, the only reason that we don't live in perpetual darkness, is that someone stole one of the arrows.

Usually, I call these medallions stars, but its February. I live in Oregon. I need some proof that someone really did steal one of those arrows and the sun is still up there.

 

Doodle of the Week

Merry Happy whatever you celebrate this holiday season! Call these stars to shine on you, or snowflakes to fall softly, or flowers strewn across your path. Whatever they are, let them lead you into a joyour new year!

Doodle of the Week

This doodle is interesting because of the interlocking elements in the pattern. I like the strong diagonal movement towards the upper right, but there is something a bit awkward about the placement of the medallions in this doodle. I am not sure what it is, or what I would move, I have stared at it awhile, but I can't figure it out.

Doodle of the Week

Another bunch of stars. I live in possibly the the worst place for star gazing in the world, so I make my own.

Doodle of This Week and Last

Here we have an odd combo of carpet and imaginary alphabet. I am not sure if they are separate doodles that happen to be on the same sheet of paper or if they really are all of one  piece.

This carpet starts out with a really large medallion. I haven't made a big one in awhile and I am happy to see this one.

2 Doodles and a Milestone

This is doodle #249 which makes the next doodle #250. When I started this sort of random project, I was not sure if I was going to follow through with it. But here we are close to 5 years later and I am still at it. Go figure.

I want to paper an entire room, floor to ceiling with them, but so far no takers. There are some other irons in the fire, which I will throw out as a teaser, because I am not ready to talk about them yet. Plus, I do not want to jinx them.

Without much ado, I give you doodle #250, a group of what I think are a particularly nice medallions.

Doodle of the Week

I like this doodle even though there is an unfinished medallion in the middle on the right. There is one on the bottom left that looks like it ought to be the board from a Chinese board game. Maybe I should make one up. What do you think?

Doodle of the Week

We were up in Forest Park last weekend and it was so beautiful, it took your breath away. Spring has sprung and there is no way to stop it. The forest floor was carpeted in blooms and buds and shoots. My usual inclination is to call a group of medallions a bunch of stars, but to honor the season, I am going to call them a sprinkling of blooms.

Here is a little bonus doodle. I rarely write shopping list and such out any more. I use my phone for everything. Unfortunately, that means that I make fewer doodles in the margins.

While I was talking on the phone, I made this little doodle. I am pretty sure we were not discussing sending a horse into space, or giving dogs the evil eye. I would remember a conversation like that.

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 doodle peters out towards the bottom, but it does it in an interesting way. First, I think it is funny. The stars in the night sky give way to light snow like a bizzare weather forecast graphic. Also, what made me change in the first place? It's a mystery, folks, like all doodles.

The medallions will make a comeback next week too. I am seriously obsessed with them at the moment.