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Backlogged Part 2 |A Week of Doodles Coming at Ya!

Well hello there! I'm a slacker.  Actually I'm exhausted and have been working my butt off for school this week. 

So, the doodles have been happening, but not getting posted daily.  I'm okay with that. Don't get me wrong, my goal as of now is to make and post daily.  I've got the make part down pat.  It's the posting.

On my honor I will make a great effort at being more diligent.

Heck, I don't even know if anyone out there is looking at these, or even cares if they get shared.  But I do.

The images are in order below.

Sunday- boat

Monday- peony

Tuesday-Yahoo

Wednesday- peaceful and powerful

Thursday- Brave

Friday (yesterday)- hell yeah!

Backlogged | Another Puppy and a Bit of Rain

I owe you two doodles from yesterday and the day before.  Well here they are.

Lfe just got away from me. 

I will show you the one I'm working on today...in tomorrow's post.  Then I will be all caught up on posting these.

The first one is from 2 days ago, the second is yesterday's doodle.

I may have had some help from photoshop with the letters.  Eh- sometimes I need help, this was one of those days.

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This is an image based on a photo on facebook.  This lovely lady and her pup's pictures always make me smile.  She loves dogs and so I thought I'd make her and LB my doodle for the day!

 

I Like You...Lots

I do, I really really do.

Today has been a really hard day.  After waking up at 4:30 driving three hours to class, giving a presentation I had a week to prepare in a giant auditorium in which I couldn't refer back to my notes because it was so dark I couldn't see them, I had to go to my research class. 

I hate this class.  This classes causes me more anxiety than any other class ever has in the history of classes because there is so much black and white information, and math, and numbers, and math.  The professor asked us what we wanted to learn about research during the class.  I responded, in tears mind you, that I understood virtually nothing and needed to learn everything.

Today has been a hard day.

I am happy to say I am onto my FAVORITE class EVER!  And during this class I will be able to do a bit of research processing thru art.  Also my research professor kindly offered lots of help and some meetings to work together.

Well here is my doodle of the day.  I feel like I need a little magic in my life right now and what's more magical than even David Copperfeild (ha ha) you ask?

Unicorns.

Learn To Listen

This was not hand lettered.  I cheated with a little photoshop action.

No Worries

Reminding myself that worries are just thoughts, they do not have control over me.  No worry Sunday.

Grow

A little reminder to myself (and maybe even you) that we grow a little, learn a little, and understand a littlebit more every single day.  We just need to be open to the experience.  If we are open then it will happen...and we might not even realize it til later.

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Trust Yourself

I trust my work. --Kikki Smith

 

The other day in my Processes and Materials class we read this quote.  It immediately resonated with me.  "I trust my work. It's a collaboration with the material, and when it's viewed, it's a collaboration with the world."

 

I do.  I trust my work.  In fact I think everyopne should trust their creative work.  Your work speaks to you for a specific reason...listen to it, work to understand it, and trust your work.

Don't Wait

I don't want to wait for the calendar to figure out when I should live.  --G. Simmons

 

Puppy Doodle Love

I will stay, just to walk beside you for one more day.

 

DOG + TRIANGLES = LOVE

Well, for me at least!

 

Puppies young and old, big and small, noisy and quiet, lazy and rambunctious, I love 'em all. 

It's a New Year and Time to Get This Ball Rolling Again!

Hi Friends.  Welcome to 2014...only 7 days late, but who's counting?  Right before the new year happened I was thinking about Art Every Day and whether or not to just dump this site and kinda forget about it.  Really who would notice...I haven't posted anything since LAST OCTOBER, and postings before that are sparse. 

I have myself a new goal.  A SMART goal of sorts...  Something Simple, Manageable, Attainable, Recordable, and Time-sensitive.

I am challenging myself to do a doodle a day.  Sounds silly right?  Well, maybe it is actually, but I need to do something outside of my classes that I enjoy & gives me a little down time to unwind and decompress from  the day.  (Being a master's Level Art Therapy & Counseling student is tough work.  Okay, enough pity party crap.)

This kinda began because I want to develop my hand-lettering abilities.  I think I have pretty handwriting in general, but hand lettering in a simple and interesting way is a great deal more work than it sounds.  many or most of the pieces will include text.  Lots of quotes, things I have overheard, words that resonate that day...really anything.

I am taking suggestions!  Comment below, and tell me a phrase, quote , or word you would like to see me incorporate into one of my daily doodles. 

And with no further ado, here are the pieces I have made thus far to kick off 2014 right!

1 January 2014

"What's the best that could happen?"

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2 January 2014

"Don't quit.  Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion."

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3 January 2014

Do more of what makes you happy.

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4 January 2014

(In a gentle way, you can) Shake the World. --M. Gandhi

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5 January 2014

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction both are transformed. --Carl Jung

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6 January 2014

Love Wins.

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7 January 2014

You're alive.  That means you have unlimited potential, you can do anything, make anything, dream anything.  --Neil Gaiman