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Triangle / Doodle book
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PREPARATION FOR THE DOODLE TRIANGLE WORKSHOP
I like to show my sketchbook to the children from the workshop as well as a ring binder where I collect all kinds of inspirational images I found on the net, mainly on Pinterest.
I found it paramount to practice on my own prior to meeting with the kids, so that I can foresee the troubles kids might experience during the workshop.
It’s also great fun!
Tropical Flower / Doodle book
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(ENGL)
Recently, I really fell in love with the work of two amazing artists: Olaf Hajek and Luisa Rivera.
The esthetical emotion I felt when facing their Work met my new desire to include more natural elements in my drawing, precisely more tropical nature (for some unknown reasons).
The connection between the botanical elements and the body within this two artist’s artwork deeply moved to me.
As, I started to practice, and filled my sketchbook with those winding and imperial stems, inspired by the charisma of orchids, enjoying the dynamic shapes of roots and flower bulbs…
I am still standing at the doodle stage – hope to reach the mix media process soon – get a hand from “photoshop” and “illustrator” 😉
I also felt that, connected with people, those natural elements would be a magnificent way to express the emotions of the characters I would draw and particularly things that happen to the body such as happy feelings as well as illness which can overtake it in various proportions. I will post about it soon.
(FR)
J’ai récemment découvert deux artistes magnifiques: Olaf Hajek and Luisa Rivera.
L’émotion esthétique que j ai ressenti face à leur travail a rejoint mon envie d’inclure d’avantages d’éléments botaniques dans mes dessins, des éléments tropicaux plus précisément.
Dans le travail de ces deux artistes, la connection entre les éléments naturels et le corps m’a beaucoup ému. J’ai ainsi commencé à remplir mes carnets avec ces sinueuses et impériales tiges, inspirée par le charisme des orchidées, les racines volantes et les bulbes floraux !
J’en suis, pour l’heure, au stade du gribouillage libre – papier/crayons – j’espère passer à l étape suivante bientôt, un peu de “Photoshop” par ci, un peu “Illustrateur” par là…
J’ai aussi beaucoup aimé, chez ces deux artistes, l’association “nature tropicale” et “corps”; une manière puissante d’exprimer les emotions des personnage et plus particulièrement toutes ces choses qui se passent dans le corps, ces emotions heureuses mais aussi ces maladies qui peuvent éventuellement l’envahir dans des proportions diverses. Je posterai à ce sujet bientôt.
Doodle Workshop project (2015 / 2016 )
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Doodle workshop project outlines / Contours du projet de l’atelier Doodle
(ENGL)
This “doodle book” Workshop is about Learning with the children how to make, step by step, a doodle-book – create, with them, a practical and esthetic base for further creations (cards, posters, books…) or not – most fo the time not – a doodle may remain a doodle, beautiful as it is!
Lisa Congdon doodling manifesto, that you can find on her web site inspired and helped me to organise the workshop: I relied on it as a guideline (I selected and summarised a few points that sound paramount and add my own points as well) to outline the workshop.
I love Lisa Congdon‘s work because I can feel the complexity, the work and experience behind the most simple lines she draws. I love her sens of color and the way she elegantly fills the surface she works on. I have been advertising her work to everyone who showed a little interest to the doodle activity!!! Her graphic universe gives such a good insight of what the doodle world could contain.
(FR)
L’Atelier consiste à apprendre à réaliser un cahier de “croquis”, de recherches d’idées et de lignes, à créer avec les enfants une base pratique et esthétique pour des réalisations futures (livres, “flyers”, posters, cartes…) ou le plus souvent, pour le “doodle” lui même, tel qu’il est, suffisant à l’inspiration qu’il renferme!
Le Manifeste du Doodle de Lisa Congdon m’a guidé dans ma préparation de l’atelier. J’en ai fait une traduction globale et très simplifiée pour le rendre accessible aux enfants et en faire une présentation orale, rapide en début d’atelier.
La complexité et l’experience se pressentent derrière les lignes les plus épurées du travail de Lisa Congdon. Son sens le la couleur et sa manière de couvrir les surfaces sur lesquelles elle travaille sont si plaisants à observer. Je vante son travail auprès de chaque personne qui s’intéresse quelque peu aux “Doodles” car il donne un très bel exemple de ce que l’univers du doodle promet.
Voici la présentation de l’activité doodle inspiré dudit manifeste
(malgré l’emploie de l’impératif, il s’agit de lignes directrices, rien d’exhaustif ou de contraignant bien sûr!)
- EN DOODLE IL N’Y A PAS DE LOIS – SE SENTIR LIBRE DE DESSINER COMME ON LE RESSENT – LAISSER GLISSSER SON CRAYON- ESSAYER DES FORMES NOUVELLES…
- AYEZ UN STYLO ET DU PAPIER N’IMPORTE OÙ VOUS ALLEZ. ON NE SAIT JAMAIS QUAND L’INSPIRATION OU L’OCCASION VA SURVENIR…
- PRENEZ LE TEMPS DE FAIRE DES DOODLE LE PLUS SOUVENT POSSIBLE, C’EST UNE MANIERE DE LIBERER SON POTENTIEL CREATIF…
- PENSEZ TOUT SOUS FORMES DE LIGNES ET DE CERCLES. VOUS N’AVEZ PAS BESOINS DE SAVOIR DESSINER…PENSE VOS IMAGES MENTALES SOUS FORME DE LIGNES…
- VOUS ETES LE PATRON DE VOTRE ART. UN “DOODLE BOOK” EST UN ESPACE PRIVE
- LES LOIS DE L’IMPERFECTION: L’IDEE EST QUE CE SONT LES IMPREFECTIONS QUI FONT LA BEAUTÉ. EN “DOODLE” LES CHOSES BANCALE SONT COOL
- LES “DOODLES” C’EST DE L’ART POINT FINAL! BEAUCOUP DE COMPOSITIONS ABSTRAITES, DE MOTIFS REPETITIF (PATTERNS)COMMENCENT DANS UN DOODLE BOOK. TOUT CE QUI EST DANS UN CARNET DOODLE NE SE TRANSFORME PAS EN REALISATION ARTISTIQUE ACHEVÉE MAIS EN EST UNE INSPIRATION POTENTIELLE.
- LE NOIR ET BLANC SONT DE BELLES COULEURS. LES POINTES FINES NOIRES SONT SOUVENT LE MATERIEL FAVORIS DES “DOODLERS” – ENCOURAGEMENT À LA SIMPLICITÉ UTILISER UNE SEULE COULEUR ( MEME SI CE N EST PAS NOIR).
- QUAND VOUS DESSINEZ EN NOIR ET BLANC VOUS TROUVEREZ UNE GRANDE BEAUTE DANS LA MONOTONIE
- LES ESPACES NEGATIFS SONT IMPORTANTS. PRETTEZ ATTENTION A VOTRE COMPOSITION, A L ESPACE QUI ENTOURE VOS LIGNES: UNE COMPOSITION EST FAITE D ESPACES NEGATIFS ET POSITIS QUI INTERRAGISSENT
- FAIRE DES CHOSES “PAS BELLES” FAIT PARTIE DE L EXPERIENCE. … NE PAS JETER LES ERREURS . PARFOIS UNE DOODLE APPARAIT “MOCHE” JUSQU’À CE QU’ON Y AJOUTE DE LA COULEUR PAR EXEMPLE… ET IL SE TRANSFORME EN DOODLE SYMPA, QUI A TOUTE SA PLACE DANS VOTRE CARNET DOODLE OU CARNET DE RECHERCHE!!!
BON DOODLE!
Links/Liens /doodles :
How to doodle / wiki how
5 Big Benefits of being a doodler – Huffpost
Skills and Strategies/ Doodling, Sketching and Mind Mapping’ as learning tool / New york time
Notebook from Denik / Lisa Congdon
I draw pictures all day / Smashing Magazine
Sunni Brown / TED presentation: shows how using art and games can empower serious problem-solving.
TINKERLAB for mini maker: “Get Started: The TinkerSketch Challenge”
Tinkersketch on instagram: “Rachelle Doorley – The Experimental Sketchbook Challenge. Put a dash of creative in your life with five minutes a day. hashtag:#tinkersketch
istolar Doodle portrait
istolar doodles faces
Holy cow !
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Sweet potatoes
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I had a try at taking cuttings of sweet potatoes… but I did it too late in the season… Next year then!
You can have a look at my “Gardening” Pinterest board With more similar ideas.
(ANG)
J’ai bouturé une patate douce. Ce fut un succès mais je l’ai fait trop tard dans la saison… L’année prochaine alors!
Cerbère
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(ENGL)
This summer, we’ve been reading some greek legends and we thought we would take up making our own Cerber.
Unfortunately I did not achieve my work – one of these day may be…
Have a look at (7 y.o) Hadar’s Cerber in process: simultaneously cute and scary!!!!
(FR)
Cet été, nous avons lu des légendes grecques. Le Cerbère nous a donné envie de le dessiner.
Je n’ai pas terminé le travail – un jour peut être….
Mais Regardez le Cerbère d’Hadar (7 ans) en cours d’élaboration – aimable et effrayant à la fois!
H ( 7 y.o)
Japan Tonality
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(ENGL)
The theme of the year at “L’Ecole Des Buis” school is JAPAN.
I have to say, it is a great source of inspiration for me! I conduct collage and drawing workshops. After the workshop end, I can not stop exploring that universe further on, in my notebook. My favorites ones are the KOÏ and DRAGONS as well as the wonderful minimalistic design of the everyday objects . There is plenty of them in my ceramic mic mic board on Pinterest.
(FR)
Le thème annuel de “l’Ecole Des Buis” est le Japon.
Ce fut une merveilleuse source d’inspiration pour moi! J’ai régulièrement animé des ateliers de collage et de dessin. Après chaque atelier, je ne pouvais m’empêcher de continuer de jouer avec les formes des carpes KOï et des dragons serpents ainsi que le design minimaliste des objets usuels dont la culture japonaise est riche – Allez faire un tour sur Pinterest dans mon tableau “japanese tonality”, vous y trouverez des trésors d’inspiration…
Pardes Hana
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(ANGL)
Last April we went back to Pardes-Hana for vacation. Girls went to their former school for a week, therefore I had a little time to work on this site from my ipad. We stayed at friends, I enjoyed working from there and visiting the coffee places I used to go. So Weird to be in a place we know so well, feeling at home and yet it is not home anymore…
(FR)
dans les cafés de Pardes-Hana, le temps des vacances. Les filles visitant leur ancienne école, je pouvais travailler un peu sur ce nouveau site comme j’en avais l’habitude lorsque nous y habitions. …l’impression d’être à la maison mais plus tout à fait. Des détails avaient changés.
From Yasmin and Ronen’s
From gabriela & Ruth coffee
From “Gan Shmuel” cafe
From “Cafe Karkour“
Museum
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A day in the museum!
(ENGLISH only …pardon my mistakes)
The building of the Shrine of the Book houses / the Dead Sea Scrolls/ consists of a white dome over a building located two-thirds below the ground. The dome is reflected in a pool of water that surrounds it. Across from the white dome is a black basalt wall. The colors and shapes of the building are based on the imagery of the Scroll of the War of the Sons of Light Against the Sons of Darkness, whereas the white dome symbolizes the Sons of Light and the black wall symbolizes the Sons of Darkness. The interior of the shrine was designed to depict the environment in which the scrolls were found. The entire structure was designed to resemble a pot in which the scrolls were found. (wikipedia)
The Model of Jerusalem in the Second Temple Period, reconstructs the topography and architectural character of the city as it was prior to its destruction by the Romans in 66 CE, and provides historical context to the Shrine’s presentation of the Dead Sea Scrolls…
We came the day of the destruction of this amazing art installation!!! so we could not enter the bamboo Forest or climb upward through it and view Jerusalem from above the Art Garden. however, just watching it was a delight!
“The concept of Big Bambú has nothing to do with bamboo; it represents the invisible architecture of life and living things“: 10,000 bamboo poles, 80,000 meters of climbing rope, 25 rock climbers, 7 weeks, 350 hours, and not a single architectural sketch. American artists Mike and Doug Starn were invited to use the Museum’s Art Garden to create Big Bambú – a 17-meter high installation built entirely of bamboo. The artists chose to name their Jerusalem installation 5,000 Arms to Hold You.
Big Bambú grew and developed over time as a living organism, embodying the tension between order and chaos, and reflecting the constantly changing realities of nature, social constructs, and culture.
Indiana’s iconic work “LOVE” (Ahava in Hebrew) was first created for a Christmas card for the Museum of Modern Art in 1964 and in 1973 was selected for a United States postage stamp, the first of their regular series of “Love” stamps. Sculptural versions of the image have been installed at numerous American and international locations. In 1977 he created a Hebrew version using Cor-ten steel for the Israel Museum (wikipedia).
The Billy Rose Art Garden features modern and abstract sculptures. It Looks like children like the realistic noses and hears better !
Love this Anish Kapoor sculpture, “Turning The World Upside Down”. Its made of polished stainless steel, stands 5 meters high and reflects an inverted image of the museum and the surrounding hills, a likely reference to the city’s duality of celestial and earthly, holy and profane”
The installation of Inversion (2008), by American artist Roxy Paine – Rising 42-feet tall and hand-constructed out of over 7,000 metal plate, pipe, and rod stainless steel elements, Inversion was the first of Paine’s sculptures from his Dendroid series in which the dendritic form appears upside down, all of its weight resting on the smallest and finest limbs.
Paine has said of Inversion: “It could be read as being emblematic of, and a monument to, how much we have altered the natural world. It could also be read as a meditation on humanity’s need to distill every entity into its component parts and then restructure them.” Paine’s long interest in the juxtaposition of nature and industry has brought form to an extensive body of work.