Doodle Week: Why Do I Continue?

This week’s Doodle Week is stick figure girls.
As you can see, I continue to struggle with doodling.
At this point, it’s pretty obvious the problem is with me, not the themes.
In case you’re wondering, the girl on the left is sitting on the curb, while the young lady on the right is [...]

May The Doodle Be With You (Cuz It’s Not With Me)

It was my hope that my doodling would improve a bit each week — but then Laura had to make a complicated theme this week. *sigh* So here you go.

And now here you go — to doodle. Right?

Doodle Week Begins Anew: Dollies

Doodle Week is now at The Ungulate, and the first week’s challenge is “dollies.” Here’s my pitiful little doodle doll.

Let’s all hope I get better. *sigh*

Gifts For Mystery Lovers

Need a gift for the bibliophiles who dig mysteries? Or someone with a twisted sense of humor? How about gifts (mugs, t-shirts, posters, ties, etc.) featuring prints of an altered art piece titled That Nosey Miss Marple:

That Nosey Miss Marple by kindnessofstrangers
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If you live near Miss Marple — or another nosy [...]

Sign Of The Times: I Wish

I Wish
by Maketea-notwar
I wish for the whole truth every time we speak.

Latching-On To Artist Tamar Stone

Feeling a bond (however imagined in my crush), I “latched” onto another common thread with artist Tamar Stone: I’ve made latch hook rugs. So I asked her to tell me about her latch hook rugs.
I began doing traditional rug hooking (using wool strips and a hand hook – you pull loops of wool strip up [...]

The Incredible Art Of Tamar Stone

The following fascinating artworks are the creation of artist Tamar Stone, who uses art to “tell the stories of women’s lives that have been constricted by their various situations throughout history.”

Tamar’s work is inspired by her own experiences, including spending her teen years a la Lisa Kudrow in Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion wearing [...]

Perhaps She’s Tired Of Keeping Quiet

Original encaustic painting, Seen and Not Heard by QueenofQueens:
Original painting of a small scared looking doll. Perhaps she’s tired of keeping quiet. Colors are layered, dark and rich.
Painting is 10″x20″ encaustic medium on wood.
Encaustic is a wax based medium that must be applied while hot and in a liquid state. The paint is applied painstakingly [...]

Whatjamacallit Wednesday: Georgia O’Keeffe Was Ahead Of Her Time

In this photo taken by John Loengard in 1967, Georgia O’Keeffe holds her favorite stone — that’s a pet rock, nearly a decade before Gary Dahl launched his pet rocks at a gift show in San Francisco in August of ‘75 and started the craze.

Can’t Be A Sleeping Beauty On Real Issues

Via Teacups & Couture I found the works of photographer Dina Goldstein which follows up with fairy tale princess and their “happily ever afters.”

Goldstein shares her exploration of Disney Princesses in Fallen Princesses at JPG Magazine:
These works place Fairy Tale characters in modern day scenarios. In all of the images the Princess is placed in [...]

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