Do you Doodle?

Do you Doodle?

I do. I think we all do, or did. I know we doodled on books in school, sometimes we do on napkins, but we don't always show them to people. Doodles are fun, magical, silly, enlightening. In my belief that everyone is an artist, I did some research and found Doodlage (Trashcan Art Salvage as their subtitle states) and in their own words:

"On a quest to elevate doodling to the status of an art form that it deserves!" This is certainly an understatement. If you doodle, if you want to doodle, if you don't understand how to doodle or what to doodle on, then take a look. And if you have nothing to do, then I suggest you plan to stay for awhile. You might even need milk and cookies, and if you're a link hopping art lover as I am, you might need more.

So here are some ideas from Doodlage...

Doodles from one post: The Iron Doodlers

And then there's food doodle...

Not only is this a fun and interesting resource for doodlers, but on their blog roll are numerous other doodle blogs, too numerous to mention here; these are amazing blogs so do browse. Now you'll understand why I suggested milk and cookies.

My biggest find on Doodlage was The Doodle Off V.3 , apparently the home of the successful and sizable Doodle Off. Take a look at this site because if you've ever thought your doodles were insignificant or uninteresting, you will see here that they can easily be true works of art. Picasso did doodle, after all.

I'll let you discover your favorite amongst the hundreds of incredible doodles on The Doodle Off V.3 but for now, here are a few amongst the hundreds.....

There is wood doodle....

There are lovely and serious doodles, although I would consider this full-fledged art, yes? That is, if you believe that art is always beautiful but that's another blog.

And a multi-doodle similar to the ones I used to throw away and now I'm thinking "Why?" because as a wall unit, I find these amazing....

Okay, so if you're an art junkie as I am and truly curious about drawing, visual ideas, and how people process what they do, then you'll enjoy another link via Doodlage, The Underground Art School and I'll let you take it from there.

Pick up a pen, some markers, crayons.......get rid of your sense of boundaries and expectation and let your mind wander.....let your soul talk to your brain and just have a good old fashioned great time.

Namaste'

Breast Cancer Month Art

I spend a fair amount of time searching the Internet and other sources for what I think is interesting art - or at least interesting ideas about art and food, and occasionally I'll throw in my own pieces. I'm particularly happy when I find something that has made a positive statement about or is in honor of something potentially devastating. So it was nice to see what Cashmere Toilet Paper does each October in honor of breast cancer awareness.

We're all familiar with the pink ribbon and many of us wear it proudly. Here's an interesting twist on the theme, although not good in a rain storm. Beginning in 2004, Cashmere decided to embrace the concept of couture.

My personal favorite

Yes! It's made entirely of T.P.!

.....and then we have...

So take a look at Cashmere here

They are doing a wonderful thing, and you can view all six years of their creations. Lots of fun.

Namaste'

Look What I Found

Culling my many books, clippings, swatches and stones - and the wondrous worldwide web - in search of inspiration, as I do on days when I'm short of it, I came across something of a reminder and, I think, a brilliant one at that. Too bad it wasn't my idea. But there you go, we all have ideas but don't always act upon them. Lee Crutchley, graphic designer, finds quotations, plays with them a bit, scans them and creates art. So if he's been culling his quotation books, at least he's done something amazing with what he's found. I think this one in particular is appropriate for myself and a few of my friends.






Just a little reminder for all of us to take the things that come to us and do something with them, otherwise, no one will know how brilliant we really are....go ahead, be daring....make your art, because what you read on the left in Crutchley's piece, is true....and our talent is a gift....success of any kind only comes when we use our gift. To hell with what people think, make art, don't be a part of the common heap who give up.....and there are many of us.......be brave......

Lee Crutchley, graphic designer (Click here for his flicker set of other quotations......and look at this next one.....

Before you leave this page, take a look at another Crutchley wonder.....and wouldn't it be nice to take words and images and send this message to someone special.....

Namaste'

The Forgotten Meaning of Art

If you read the last line of the American Heritage Dictionary definition of ART, you will see that it says:



"A specific skill in adept performance, conceived as requiring the exercise of intuitive faculties that cannot be learned solely by study."


...................that cannot be learned solely by study.



And so there is something else at play when we create, something other than knowledge, something that preceded knowledge, that trumps it, and that lives elsewhere, perhaps in the soul.