I cannot tell a lie, beloveds, it has been a crappy month.
When I last wrote, I was just recovering from illness, and was ready to tackle Art Every Day Month with gusto.
Alas! the best laid plans, etc, etc.
Instead, I injured my back, and have spent the last three weeks pretty much incapacitated with sciatica. I’m taking strong painkillers, anti-inflammatories, and am waiting for some physiotherapy to start, but meanwhile I’m unable to sit up for more than a couple of minutes at a time. I stand to eat meals and walk around to keep mobile, but not being able to sit is so very, very boring, beloveds! (Not to mention pain, and numbness, but as I just said, we won’t mention that.)
Since I can’t sit in a chair and can only stand up for so long, activities for AEDM have been somewhat restricted.
Yes, we’re back to the big book of doodles and colouring in!
So for your delight and delectation, I now present my latest doodles in glorious Inktense-i-colour. Not all of them were done this month but I thought I’d include them anyway. Just because I can.
First off, one I really did draw in the middle of the night when I couldn’t sleep.
The seventh doodle
And this one was when it seemed to be taking forever for the weather to warm up.
The eighth doodle
Then the first one I drew on a long-haul flight to while away some of the tedious hours in cattle-car class.
The ninth doodle
By then I was on a roll, so I continued straight on and drew this one on the plane as well.
The tenth doodle
This is the first one for Art Every Day Month – and the first one in the book that has no text at all. (But apparently I still have the colour sense of a 12 year old girl!)
The 11th doodle
I’m trying to do doodles for all my favourite mottoes, and I lurve this one!
The 12th doodle
And finally, a vaguely op-art inspired doodle, still being coloured in.
The 13th doodle–still in progress
I think there is room for around 80 spreads in this sketchbook – how cool would it be if I could fill the whole thing?
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Of course, since I can’t really sit, it’s pretty hard to type as well. So I am also introducing to you my latest Questing companion, Patsy the scribe. (Really serious Questors have to have someone to record their adventures, right?)
Patsy is my dictation software. As I can’t type for myself very easily, she is scribing for me instead. Unfortunately, just like Havi’s retired Stu, she doesn’t always get it right, which can be both hilarious and frustrating.
For example, instead of delectation, she’s now given me the following variants:
- the lactation
- dealer quotation
- dealing nation.
Which, in the place of “your delectation”, beloveds, did make me giggle.
Why is she called Patsy?
I have the lovely Wendy Cholbi to thank for this one. She was the one who reminded me that in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, King Arthur’s squire (the one with the coconuts) on the quest was called Patsy. He wasn’t that bright either.
This post brought to you courtesy of Patsy, who has no opinion on the content whatsoever because she isn’t very bright and lives in a computer. But we love her anyway.
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Fi, I love these so much I want to cry. Especially the unfinished one and the 11th doodle. I don’t know how to doodle and I desperately want to doodle.
That sounds awfully dirty.
Oh my heavens, I wish I could have doodle #11 as wrapping paper. I would use it for every present I ever give for the rest of my life. Beautiful!!
Your doodles are fabulous, as always! I love them!
Yay for giggles-inducing Patsy – may those giggles make the pain of dealing with her, uh, “creative interpretations” of what you’re saying more bearable.
Luscious doodles Fi! Especially love the 12th doodle and would buy this on a card when you make it available. Oh, when will that be please?!!
Most fabulous doodles. Hope your back starts to cooperate soon
@Julie
He: Do you like doodling?
She: I don’t know, you naughty boy, I’ve never doodled!
How about colouring in some doodles, Julie? Would that get your doodle muscles going? (I have an idea…)
@Bren
Oo er, you mean you want to give me money? I’d better get on with it then!
@Darcy
Oh good, so I’m not the only one still obsessed with the spectrum then!
@Josiane
“Creative interpretations”. Yes, that’s exactly it. Sort of like Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity through interpretive dance. And making about as much sense.
@JoVE
Me too! I admit that I caved today and took the ultra-sooper-dooper strength painkillers instead of the the simply-sooper-dooper ones, hoping to actually achieve something. And in fact, I am now lying on my back and typing so Patsy has the day off.
firstly, i heart the 11th doodle. yummy color.
secondly, i’m sorry about your back.
thirdly, aedm is all about doing what you can and not worrying about the rest. so celebrate what you could do!
fourthly, (((hugs and hi!)))