Noodling Doodle July 20, 2008

noodle dancing

(for Doodle Week - a body doodle)

I have a friend who plays in a Grateful Dead cover band. While I am more familiar with the 60’s version of GD music, he is more in tune with their 80’s incarnation. Recently I read a description of dancing to Grateful Dead music as “Noodle Dancing.”

I loved the image.

Ooooh the colors…….!

( I hope you will click on the link to the Miracle Show’s music)

Got the bug? July 15, 2008

doodlebug

This little guy was having so much fun trying out new custom-made roller blades, he didn’t make it back on time to get to the blog for the premiere of Doodle Week. Can you blame him?

~Sue O’Kieffe

WHY I DOODLE July 1, 2008

Dancing © Sue O’Kieffe 2008

Mostly I spend too much time sitting in front of a computer creating digital mandalas (see here), and I decided I wanted to find a playground away from the digital realm. I enjoy letting a pen meander on paper without any notion of where it is going and letting the colors choose themselves. Doodling is a soothing way for me to let my mind unwind.

It’s hard to see the glitter I used for embellishment in this scanned image, but when I look at it all I do is smile.

Recently an artist friend suggested to me that I might want to treat these drawings with more respect and find another word to describe them besides doodling. What else would I call them? What would you call them?

I’d love to know.

Sue