Off the Wall Friday

My life has been un-inspired lately.  I have been concentrating on, well, not much.   But I was at my Fiber Group on Wednesday night and complained of the same thing.  Several others said the same thing, ennui seems to be everywhere in the artsy world down here.

As luck would have it, the next word on our theme list is "inspiration".  

At the meeting, they always inspire me!


 Judy suggested I scan my zen doodle piece and create fabric with it.  (Why don't I think of these things myself??)  So I did just that.

And now I have my next month's project to work on!

Hey, Nina-Marie, I am sending everyone your way to see what everyone else has thought of before me too!

Click here  Off the Wall! 

Nina-Marie used a photo from the Wizard of Oz.  A great movie.  In fact, my mother named me after the Glenda, Good Witch. 

Then she persecuted me all my life for having stringy thin straight hair and hating pink fluffy dresses. 

Ah, sorry mom! 

A Doodly Distraction ---

For the South American Adventure I picked up a book to keep me busy.  I used to read voraciously.  And when I say voraciously, I mean a lot of books!  I keep logs of what I have read, with author and title and a short description of why I liked it or not.  Each year I would read about 150 books.  Some were professional, some informational, some just plain dirty.  Hee, hee.

But this book was different.  It was a FUN book.

Zen Doodling by Carolyn Scrace.

For someone like me who has not done much doodling, it is a nice way to start learning the process.  Carolyn begins by showing you how to make some basic shapes then moves into mandalas, shapes, letters, metal, printed and resisted prints........oh, and the experimental doodles!

Nice.

Here are some of my masterpieces.

start off slow and

   getting better.










I made Frank take me out and buy me some Prisma Colors.  Then I had to learn how to use them.  There is a secret, but I figured it out.                

adding color with Prisma Colors

I am addicted.............










And getting more detailed.











And I began searching the internet for simple drawings that I could fill in.




Did I say I was addicted?  I can see so many possibilities in this.  Now I need to clean up my space so I can start working on some of this amazing idea I have.

Aughhhh!