Doodling away cabin fever

This face tho Woke up this morning and glanced at the temp before bundling to walk the girls... 3 degrees!!! Gross! That's one of my favorite numbers but not for temperature... Sheez..

Pull out a gift I got from the super awesome Danikins last year...

This face hat is the bombdiggity!!!   It's brilliantly designed so my glasses don't fog when I breathe and the air is warmer than trying to breathe in these temps without the fantastic-est invention to survive frigid air....  

Which is most definately not conducive to outside sketching.  Cabin fever is kicking in but I do have bazillions of bits to create, sculpt, sew and fiddle with.... 

I pulled a doodle drawing book off my shelf to play with with the ideas to see what characters fall out....   

Much of what's falling out looks like it wants to move.... Oooooo I think I oughta get back into playing with animation... I liked doing that a bunch... Reeeeally good winter activity!!   Winter is nearly over but given that it's New York March does not mean the end of snow soooooo plenty of time to wiggle some drawings before the sun filled outdoorsy days begin..... First I want to photograph some of the clothes I've made recently, I surprised myself with some of what came out of reconstructing former wear abeles.

For the immediate I need to go put on most of my favorite clothes at once and take the girls out in the cold to pee...

Do you layer up to go out or are you one of the enigmas I see that walk through the frigid with bare arms and/or legs?  

Ta for now....

xo Chelle ox

PS... More next time

PoNdErInG oNe

Yawns

Hold on Loosely

To Share or Not to Share

Silly Inner Demons

Lately life has entailed allot if outside pressures that seems to have hijacked my ability to follow through on bits I really want to do.... I was ramming against it when I saw this post on Facebook.

This reminded/reinforced how many tools I do have in my arsenal and then remembered Artists Way's morning pages which for me is also morning doodles.  It's like bleeding a radiator, We are much more useful to ourselves when we allow release valves.

..... And art, when I am able to shoehorn myself into an art medium I often gain solutions, insight, and surprises that fall out leaving me a souvenirs of process.  

Yesterday I was reminded my monsters aren't scary unless I let them be.  The most scary are also ridiculous.... What role will I allow them to play or remember Sara's  lesson when face to face with Jared; they have no real power over me.  The power I give my adversaries,including  when those are in the form if dynamics, fears and attachments usually come from my own insecurities, like referred pain.

Sometimes defusing it is as simple and complicated as laying it on the page.

It's cold and fluffy outside and Sadie wants to romp in it.

Xo Chelle ox

Ps... More later