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Turner and the Dragon⤴

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Today is St George’s Day, and today’s Daily Create celebrates that and asks us to “make some art to celebrate this auspicious day”. April 23rd is also Turner’s birthday, and I wanted to make something to mix these two days together.

I knew Turner had painted dragons, so I looked for inspiration and found this:

Landschaft mit dem Garten des Hesperides by J. M. W. Turner

J. M. W. Turner, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

I loved the dragon detail in this picture, and especially as recreated by Arthur Burgess, and that gave me an idea.

I was sure that I had doodled a dragon at some point, and sure enough I had:

Dragon
Dragon flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license

I took this image and uploaded it to NightCafe and asked it to transform this doodle into “An oil painting in the style of Turner”. This is what it gave me:

Turner Dragon
Turner Dragon flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license

I’m pretty pleased with this.

Starry Night⤴

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Today is Vincent van Gogh’s birthday, and the Daily Create asks us to create art appropriate for a birthday card. I began with a sunflower I’d drawn

sunflower
sunflower flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license

And ran it through a Lunapic Van Gogh filter

Van Gogh Sunflower
Van Gogh Sunflower flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license

Then I went back to Lunapic and used the Starry filter

Starry Starry Sunflower
Starry Starry Sunflower flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license

Then I thought I’d like to add some visuals, so I added  the Sparkles Effect

Some days I remix with others, and other days I riff off my own remixes. While I was doing all of this I was also listening to this

Peace cards⤴

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Postcards for peace

I love this postcard project – the decision to make a round of postcards – in this case prompted by our CLMOOC Postcards for Peace popup; the choice of design – this time blue and yellow with sunflowers for Ukraine; the scrolling through the Google Sheet to find names and addresses – I love this part as I get to imagine what all the different places are like, and to look them up on a Google Map as I write each one.

And then there’s the thrill as cards pop though my letter box – the serendipity of finding one from Kevin on the mat as I was addressing this batch.

Peace card

Small things give me hope, and help me find peace.

Time to Relax⤴

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This Christmas I’ve had a holiday. For (most of) the last three weeks I’ve not worried about work, or agonised about what I should be reading and writing. And as I relaxed, I realised that this is the first Xmas that I can remember for at least 20 years that I’ve not had a mountain of academic work hanging over me: no piles of essays to mark; no outstanding PhD thesis to guilt trip me.

This meant that I’ve been able to really relax and take a break. I’ve written lists of things I wanted to do, rather than things I thought I ought to do, and I’ve crossed each one off with a sense of joy, rather than the usual relief. I have:

  • Spent time doing the CLMOOC Daily Doodles
  • Caught up with some old DS106 Daily Creates
  • Knitted myself a cardigan (and started planning my next one)
  • Enjoyed tidying, cooking, cleaning
  • Read novels, watched trashy TV, tuned my ukes again
  • Ignored emails and Teams

And overall I have just relaxed. Tomorrow I go back to work. Well, all good things come to an end.

Happy Hogmanay⤴

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It’s been a year, let’s hope the next one is calmer. Here’s wishing you all happiness, peace and whatever you need for 2022. Thank you to all my friends, thank you for CLMOOC and DS106. Some of us have put together a calendar for 2022 which you can download from the CLMOOC blog. Doodle Bird says Happy Hogmanay to you all.

party bird

Doodle Days⤴

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Over in our CLMOOC Facebook Group we post lists of daily doodle prompts. Some of us are better than others at daily doodling, but whether or not I’ve had time to draw anything I enjoy popping in and seeing what others have posted. We have three sets of prompts for August (not that anyone is expected to do all of them every day, they’re there to dip in and out of).

Doodlewash August Prompts

Tinkersketch Art Challenge

Lettering and Doodle Challenge

Why not join us? Post to whichever media you fancy

Pandemic Postcards⤴

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I’ve been thinking about sending some postcards recently, but not having a theme in mind to motivate my doodling, so this tweet from Karen was just the prompt I needed.

Today’s been a dreich day, so while I’ve been watching TV and drinking tea I’ve had an idea and made a start.

Postcard grids

Can you guess what they are going to be? [Update – sneak peak below]

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Bookmarks⤴

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Bookmarks

I can rarely find a bookmark when I want one – I use scraps of paper, post it notes, whatever I have to hand. I remember trips to bookshops as a child, the thrill of a book token for Xmas or a birthday, swapping the token for a stack of new books, picking up a handful of free bookmarks at the till. Now I buy most of my books online, of course. But sometimes I take a book from my shelf and find a real book mark inside it – like this one, made for me by Algot:

So here’s my latest project – a series of bookmarks doodled in odd moments – some from daily doodle prompts, others just because. Now I am addressing envelopes and awaiting postage stamps so I can send them around the world.

Echo. Zine⤴

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Today I got an email: “Please find attached a fold-your-own zine titled: Echo. Zine”

Exciting! What would it be? I opened the attachment and followed the instructions.

I pondered, I wondered, I got out my colour pencils.

I coloured, I savoured the words.

I pondered, I remembered Steller.

I did not remember my password!

Eventually I got access. I played for a while.

Time to stop dithering. I publish. I did not add a description. You can imagine it is there.

Thanks Wendy 🙂