Category: Doodling

My Most Resent Art Fixation

1/13/2023

NEUROGRAPHIC ART* Super calming and by far the coolest thing I've learned in a while... and, I learned a lot of cool stuff about octopuses today, but that's a whole other blog post (maybe, if I remember to do one). As a substitute teacher, I have a gig teaching art to middle schoolers for a couple of weeks. I was left this amazing lesson on Neurographic Art, which has both calmed my soul and pushed my art practice forward...

* So, I could work real hard to find my sources and post the slide show that the teacher I covered for sent me, but then I would never post this blog and I would get all hung up on all that other stuff when I really just want to share the art. And I also cannot figure out hashtags but I really just want to post and not worry about that. So, whatever. Just Google "neurograpahic art" to be as inspired as I was!

Then I decided to apply it to an old artwork left abandoned. And I think it has been sufficiently resuscitated.

Thank goodness for ART:)

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NaPoWriMo2020 - Poem 23

5/1/2020

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The prompt was to play with the alphabet (more or less). I was going to cheat and use a poem from when I did this before. Instead, I tried a new one, and Aha! I like it, but I also like the other one, so here are both...

A is for Apocalypse

Architect of anarchy, asshole archetype; And
another apeshit angry anti-asshat holy epiphany --

Aaaaarrrgghhh --

After all the awesome angelic altar-egos
effectively alienate the aliens, isolating with the best of ‘Em,
but only if it’s after eight
and, only if you’re arboreal, all upright and sturdy strong,
can you truly see all that’s wrong.

Ardent animalistic instincts above all else — so I attack,
aggressive and artfully with much ado.
Ammunition needed to amass amenities amongst
the average anomalies in this after-lifetime of allegorical irony.
No glory, like getting schmucked by a lorry, asterisk...
It might have been a bus, but it doesn’t matter when I’m dust --
Awesome August allergies in April —

Aaaachoooo --
Boo hoo. Me too.

(April 24... first write/word gathering, April 25, 2020... arranged, edited, finalized, again Apr 30/May 1)

Mouthful of Marbles

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NAPOWRIMO Day 2

4/2/2019

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From my Sketchbooks...

1/18/2019

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Teaching Art from the Heart and Soul

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Continuing with Creative January...

1/16/2016

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It's cold and it's snowy in Canada in January but vow to be happy, despite the cold! Wear your favourite winter woollies and get out there! Happiness doesn't just happen so plan for it to happen; in fact, don't accept anything less! LIFE is a special occasion. And each individual moment that make life are special, too. Of course, a good life needs good health, so DANCE with the spirits - Zumba, perhaps! - Stay ACTIVE (& stay hydrated) to stay HEALTHY. GROW a PASSION - a passion for creating. Get your ZZZs and LET's GET HAPPY... get ready!, already! You got this. Make life a meaningful journey... be tasty. Normal? Really? Normal is clearly over-rated. Normal is boring! Never settle FOR GOOD ENOUGH. Imagine the world... it is often irresistibly surprising! Unleash the PASSION. Make a splash! BE STRONG!

Lab 1 -->> Smartphone 30/30...

This project emerged as a result of Lab 1 in Steve Sonheim's Creative Photography Lab - 52 Fun Exercises for Developing Self-Expression With Your Camera.

It's time to go beyond the single snapshot. The objective is to capture an experience by shooting a series of images. Tell a story by taking thirty shots in thirty minutes with your Smartphone. Take a shot of whatever grabs your attention at one-minute intervals. Don't think - just shoot!

Okay, here's what happened...

My ride didn't show up one day last week so I hustled to the bus stop to get the right bus; the one that drops me off right at my door! But, alas, the wrong bus showed up first. (Everybody knows that bus schedules, much like the Pirate Code, are more like guidelines, really.)

When I got off the bus, I faced a thirty minute JOURNEY HOME...

The song, entitled "La Doodle Song" by Nicola Schneider (MissNikkiRocks of Team Schnadams, Inc.) accompanies my video, JOURNEY HOME, depicting an unexpected surprise of an adventure.

Mellow and mournful piano gives way to a more frantic frenzy, mirroring the actual situation I found myself to be in.... at first, annoyed that I had a longer than necessary trip home after work. But, I also, to put it bluntly, really had to pee! But, woe was me for I was yet 30 minutes from home. So, I took pictures to distract my self. And, the whole situation was made infinitely worse by the frenzied, flowing Spencer Creek that I was walking alongside!
Everyday Art Every Day on Instagram
#spencercreektrail
#ourvalleytown

Splashes of colour command a second glance.
Here's to Happy Trails and Happenstance!

... I learned that sometimes wrong is only frame of mind;
Wrong is right if you make it so!

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My January 2016 Vision Board

1/2/2016

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It's cold and it's snowy in Canada in January but vow to be happy, despite the cold! Wear your favourite winter woollies and get out there! Happiness doesn't just happen so plan for it to happen; in fact, don't accept anything less! LIFE is a special occasion. And each individual moment that make life are special, too. Of course, a good life needs good health, so DANCE with the spirits - Zumba, perhaps! - Stay ACTIVE (& stay hydrated) to stay HEALTHY.
GROW a PASSION - a passion for creating. Get your ZZZs and LET's GET HAPPY... get ready!, already! You got this. Make life a meaningful journey... be tasty. Normal? Really? Normal is clearly over-rated. Normal is boring! Never settle FOR GOOD ENOUGH. Imagine the world... it is often irresistibly surprising! Unleash the PASSION. Make a splash!
BE STRONG!

I really love this project! I happened to have done some vision board collages last year and the year before:

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NaPoWriMo, Poem 11

4/29/2015

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I was inspired to write a sort-of review, thereby, sort of using today's prompt. I just bought some super fun Melissa and Doug Blendy Pens...

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Hope Floats Anyway

4/7/2014

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NaPoWriMo, Day 7:

Hope Floats Anyway

Afloat, afar and away -

an angry balloon bursts,

Coasting clearly down,

doomed.

Evil eats Everything & erodes, entering efficiently even when I

Fight for freedom from forces forever favouring the favoured, flavoured with fortunate fate.

The fight gets going & I'm greeted by grey ghosts gathering graciously in hopeful homes inhabited happily & hungrily by hideous heroes who hear holiness in idiots & ingrates, incessantly judging,

joining in Kindred kahoots.

We long for love lost,

Mourn for mornings of memories; of misty maybes through a mostly murky mayhaim of mindless,

Non-existent nonsense - Nevermind.

Nobody knows.

Others Only over-obsess obnoxiously, otherwise

Poor pretty perfect people possibly

Questioning -quos; Quasimodo

Rock stars sailing & soaring atop, too tall towers.

Terrible tragedies & truths torment us.

Understanding unites

Vastly varied

Wisdom-seekers wandering willfully

Extracting & exuding extra-hope, yakking & yapping, yelling & yawning, the yea-Sayers of yesterday have

Zilch.

#TinkerSketch prompt was clouds. It was challenging to write my poem, today. I just played around with alliteration & the alphabet -- ooh, an Abecedarian Alliteration Attempt! -- hey, it counts for a full week:)

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When the explanation about the poem's origins are longer than the poem itself....

4/4/2014

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NaPoWriMo2014, ,Day 4:

How this Poem came to be: #TinkerSketch prompt was Aluminium Foil. So, I drew on the foil with my Poster Paint Crayon Sticks. I tried to draw my cat, but I ended up drawing a fox. Then I remembered the Oulipost Blog Prompt, Day #3, which was to pick a sentence from a newspaper article, and replace each significant word with its dictionary definition. (I choose the book, based on the viral You Tube video, What Does the Fox Say? and this is what I got! - Yeah!

Unrequited Love, Reciprocated

Imposing sad colour of the clear sky,
Scrutinizing judgment,
pretentious and of Great Importance.
Magnanimous, even.
The part that beats and the part that breathes senses you near reach,
Pursuing earnestly, seeking persistently,
with the intention of a silver fox alluring his mademoiselle.

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Everything but the Poem

4/3/2014

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NaPoWriMo, Day 3:

#TinkerSketch Prompt --> Draw to Music
SO I played a little Dittie on My Beautiful Piano (simply because I couldn't decide what music I wanted to draw to)....
https://soundcloud.com/nikki-schneider/la-doodle-song

Creativity Charm

Make some music make some noise
Forget about neighbours forget about poise
Blow a whistle bang a drum
Guitar or ukulele go ahead, strum

Get up and dance move your dancing feet
It's all good says Blue Cat Pete!
Move like a kid give it a whirl
Skip, hop or even twirl

Get some paper any will do
Even an old receipt that you already threw
The sky's the limit get out your pens,
Crayons can give your soul a cleanse