What color to dye my dress or my dogs?

Ps...Found and old wedding dress in my to be something pile, which I have more than one of, don't most artists?? So what color should I dye it?

Will decide later... I'm off to nap before a late night create fest with myself.... My girls too...

xo. Chelle

Sketchbook with a Beer Box Cover

I was neatening up warren's apartment and came accross an angry orchard 6 pack box... The art was too cool to throw into the recycling pile. Inspired by rent gifts from my friend Cindy (@) I grabbed some 

construction paper, scissors, tape, needle, thread and whipped this up.... I really like it.... wanna know how I made it?
I think I am going to use it to keep a tree log/diary.... 
ps.... more to come.

My necklace was remade and blogged and other stuff.

Oh it has been far too long since my last post.... I wonder how common that start is for a blog?
I was gung ho on the alphabet book I was drawing when I injured my finger and it is not healing as I was assured and hoped it would and I got a bit despondent.
Getting back into creating of any kind feel like going home and have been working bunches again, tho rarely as much as I believe I 'should' whatever that means.
Lately Ive been mostly sketching as my hand builds back up and getting back into cartooning the more

I research my Papa's art.   Also have been itching to get back into beading and diy then I stumble upon a blog by Claire Wolfe where she made my memory necklace.  She did an amazing job and I love how she went with my design and still made it her own.... I've never actually seen my pieces remade by someone else... I love the peace and the inspiration it returned to me.
I wrote up a tentative schedule and will aim at regular posts on all my social networking sights that trick me into thinking I'm actually social :)    Lately most of my art has been going on facebook tho I do miss posting animations.....
So now I need to find more time to satisfy the quest to fulfill all my creative loves in a.d.d. ferver.
It's cold, Im going to go work on a quilt, eat popcorn and make hot chocolate.

Cheers


ps ..... I tried to post this several times over the last couple of weeks and all I got was error messages is anyone else having that issue?

Answers to What Starts with the Letter.... doodle M

On my facebook art page, Shades of Peace, I have been posting the letters I doodly scribbled full up with objects that start with that letter.....
For the letter M the ones I intetionally included are:

music
moon
mice
mittens
MnMs
mums
mandolin
maize
maze
map
mop
magic
money
millipede
meow
mad
monster

and maybe some I didnt mean to....

Hope you have fun looking for them all, it was fun to draw them!
If you find any I didnt lest please tell me in a comment below and/or on my fb page: Shades of Peace

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CM PS - more soon

Doodled Letters to Color

Hey and Happy Morning to you...
tho just because I am writing this in the morning time does not mean you will be reading it in the morning time.... so happy time to you!
The doodles, tangles and happy lines took on a life of their own with in my pen and started doing my kid's initials, I'm pretty please with how they are coming out.  In the posting of them on my Shades of Peace facebook page I asked what started with those letters, so far I have posted R, D, and C....as I was working on 'J' I realized I want to fill the letters with words that start with the letter I am drawing and do the whole alphabet..
Here is an incomplete list of what starts with the letter....
I would love it if y'all would help fill this in, please add your favorite words you would like to see doodled in a letter...
At first I decided I would go in alphbetical order, posting one letter a day.  This approach in not a good plan if I want to finish the project that I think will make a fun coloring book. 
(Finally) I have learned to go with my wiring...
 anyone who knows me likely notices I bounce around with "A.D.D" as my choreographer;l rather than swallow chemicals to change how work I have learned to go with it...allot gets done on various projects by setting myself up with different bits to work on so as I bounce from one thing I have another go to and the productivity is much higher.  To an outside observer my studio resembles scrambled eggs, maybe why I dont have many in the studio - comments the space and ongoing projects can shift the rhythm for me and makes the flow harder to get back to...

Learning to go with that has allowed me to have creations fall out that make me so excited I get to be an artist.
Sooo in keeping with my seemingly unorganized Chelle rhythm I will do the letters in an inside out order -
please post here or on my Shades of Peace face book page any words you would like to see doodled for that letter when they come to you/as you feel like it.... its hard tellin which letter will come next, even I dont know.
CM    PS .... more on another day....

Dangling zenly from doodles

While searching online for books full of drawing techniques at 3a I came across a series of books by different artists on doodle techniques known as zentangling http://zentangle.blogspot.com The technique consists of creating drawn shapes that are segmented as shown here on wikihow; http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Zentangle with patterns how tos here http://tanglepatterns.com/tag/zentangle ..... with the technique the spaces within the segments are filled in with random repeating pattern.  There are some really cool patterns and drawings that I found and I am psyched for the inspiration.   From what I have read there are 147 patterns, some posted on the website but not all because she leads workshops that teach the other patterns and I found postings from 'certified zentangle instructors'.  The techniques are fun,designs are way cool and I was psyched at how much purusing the doodles/zentangles got me drawing with free er lines again.. 

It brought  me back to when I was  younger and would doodle on any and all available surfaces, - stationary wasnt always necesary, still isnt. 

  

Now there are workshops, booklets, YouTube videos, blogs etc on how to zentangle/doodle.

It's quite awesome that doodling is now a thing that people want to search out to do..... I used to to get in trouble for doodling on the covers of my notebooks and now there are classes to show us how.

The concept of teaching doodling is cool and if it gets somebody freethinking and that doing like a child that was fantastic, at the end of the day just be free, like when you were a kid and not worried if you could your draw or not, you  just drew,  and the coolest stuff came out!  So, please, do more of that now.

I think a book to refer to when I'm feeling stuck and forget to doodle..... book or no book, please doodle, the world needs more of what comes from a us when our internal editor isnt too loud.... and when you do, please show me what you drew in comment below or on my facebook page https://www.facebook.com/ColornTell ..... I love to see what you did.... The one I did and posted here is inspired by Sprout Brook, one of my favorite places to take my girls and doodle.

PS ... more to come

Chelle

Procrastinating Fuzz Nuggeted Christmas Lights

Oh man, daily blogging isnt coming naturally to me at all... fuzz nuggets of ugh.
Actually, lately my creative motivation, heck, my motivation in general, is pretty stinkin thin.  There are allot of pressures, its true.... thats where I used to pour it all and now, well, not so much.  Its making me feel thin too, of spirit anyway, certainly not physically.  Part of that is to blame on that peanut butter oreos exist.... what a cruelty to allow those on the shelves during bathing suit season!
The ideas are there, I just feel so stifled by external stuffs that the internal colors are staying inside and keeping each other company instead of me.     One of my books on fostering creativity suggest doing a daily gratitude list, theres that daily bit again...
okay for todays 5 grateful for things:
- raspberries are ripe
- there are tomatoes on the plant I planted in my garden for Cassie
- tis the season to get color on my skin which makes me feel better about passing a mirror
- I have fans!  (It's stinkin hot today- 90 right now at 5:12 in Westchester, NY)
- the dogs I get to call mine are awesome!


The fan is probably saving my sanity and anyone trying to interact with me..... it's a flipping sauna out ther

........
and now its



July 23

Today melted with Christmas lights on this hot and humid day....  I was working on my mural, from the inside it seems and lost 2 days and gained so much more.  Since moving to Peekskill 2 1/2 years ago the amout of time I spend in the zone has been minimal, since I started creating to have my own world to live in when the one I was given was less palatable and creative blocks and any form scare me I was not jumping up and down in a happy dance about not being zoned.  As many of you creative peeps know, the more you demand creativity and inspiration to envelope the more evasive that process becomes.....so I put it down for a bit, poutily at first.

This week I have been working on random bits that have been time consuming and quite satisfying along the heat and a desire to keep it moving ...... if feels slow going... it happens like that sometimes.....

since I was have been uber busy tasking I wasnt demanding creativity swallow me up into the zone I miss so much and back in I went into the city scape that I've been whittling onto for a while.  Okay, I'm thinking that metaphor did not quite work since whittling is taking away which doesnt allow for on, tho if I left out two half sentences from the middle to make that it would make sense when they were put back;  ... whittling away and the city project and layered on colors line and characters.... oh yeah, and got to hang Christmas lights in between gardening and moving worms.   It was a full day and I'm looking forward to seeing what else comes togther within my a.d.d. approach to tasking.

PS.... More later

Chewing on My Butt in a Cityscape

Oh wow, there's a blogger app that let's me post from my phone.... YEA!  This 

 makes it possible to do more frequent/daily blogs.

My head is a little spinny these days with pulling towards goals I'm deciding are possible.  I'm tired some.

Tho it IS summer so projecting outside in the yard is possible....the flower garden is coming along, my first in a while, the lillies  

are one of my favorite flowers.... They smell like peace and make me happy.

 Again today I brought a section of the city scape mural outside to work on, I'm pretty psyched about its progression

so far

Lots of stuff to keep a.d.d. mostly entertained... 

If it gets to be too much maybe ill stop and chew on my butt like Sadie does, probably not tho.

Happy eve to you all.

PS

New Story Etc

The other day* (There is tomorrow, today, yesterday, and the other day....) I went to Neil Gaiman's signing of his new book, 'Ocean at the End of the Lane' at BAM in Brooklyn with my friend Jim and met up with Peter...
Peter reminds me of Tom Waits character in Dracula, Renfield, he was one of my favorite characters.  The jury is still out as to how Peter feels about that comparison, Tom too.  Most people remind me of a combination of other people......along with that everyone seems to have a double or more wandering about on somewhat related planes.
During Neil's talk he spoke of writing novels and that you write what you know woven with lies.  That reminded me of how my mind dove into stories based on the bits around me I found interesting, it also reminded me of the 500 Hats of Bartholomew Winslow by Dr. Suess, and a door that was along the railroad tracks I used to walk at least once a day.....  during being reminded a story started to form in my head and this time I gave my permission to write it down... Here is the into bit:

So Far Untitled by Chelle Mayer  Bit One

The door closed and the world was gone, all that was left of the smell and light from where we just cam was evaporating as was any sense of realness associated to what happened.  We stood hungry, bewildered and disconnected on the tracks.  Sadie looked like she wanted to bark but stood frozen in place seemingly hesitant to move as tho if she did this world would evaporate too, I was afraid it wouldn't....

So that's what I have for you today..... My fingers are crossed that my enthusiasm for this story over rides that I have the attention span of an epileptic humming bird.

Yours, Chelle