A glimpse of someone sitting in the sun with subtle shadows moving across her face inspired this doodle. This is not a portrait but an attempt to capture a feeling.
UPDATE: New poem from Tom! very ssssexy – thanks!
Sultry sadness, sliding slowly
Sunlit shadows, softer sighs
Sombre sexy siren sizzles
Seducing sober singles, shy.
image (cc) 2013 Hilary Farmer
poem (c) 2013 Tom Radcliffe
I didn’t start with a particular dance in mind – it just seemed full of movement. Maybe there are tam-tams playing – that seems about right 🙂 a park, and tam-tams… summer’s end…
UPDATE: New summers-end poem from Tom – thanks!!
For we who dance at summer’s end
will sway to beats that pulse and bend
along the geodesic line
toward the equinocal time
where darkness balances the light:
this long day wanes, encroaching night
extends its fingers up the sky
but still we dance, though winter’s nigh!
poem (c) 2013 Tom Radcliffe
image (cc) 2013 Hilary Farmer
It’s been too long! I’ve been working longer hours recently and haven’t wanted to look at a computer too much after work but here is a quick doodle. Hoping to get back into the zone!
Hoping a haiku will be in order… Tom??
UPDATE: Thanks Tom!
beneath rainbow skies
stretching cat prepares for work
then goes back to sleep
image (cc) 2013 Hilary Farmer
haiku (c) 2013 Tom Radcliffe
One more quick doodle that was done on the long weekend in May. I must start doing some new drawings soon… and I will have more time to do that not long from now. I’m looking forward to it!
UPDATE: New haiku from Tom! Thanks!!
dull thud of voices
small talk murders consciousness
while witnesses sleep
haiku (c) 2013 TJ Radcliffe
Image (cc) 2013 Hilary Farmer
Long overdue for a new doodle! Still playing with the Procreate app. This quick sketch was done while at Baie Saint-Paul. Enjoy…
UPDATE: New poem from Tom! See explanation in the comments. Thanks!!
during the war she
fought with guile now long faded
sepia photo
haiku (c) 2013 TJ Radcliffe
image (cc) 2013 Hilary Farmer
reflected mountain
green dragon ripples over
cloud-flecked blue water
This doodle is not a portrait of the Bay… more just a feeling… an impression , one could say 🙂 I visited this beautiful place in Quebec last weekend with friends.
Today I am experimenting with blogging directly from my iPad mini… hence the short text.
UPDATE: Haiku from Tom. See above!
Haiku (c) 2013 TJ Radcliffe
(cc) 2013 Hilary Farmer
Just a random doodle today… trying a bit of contrast between soft and hard edges.
Have a great rest of the week!
UPDATE: New haiku from Tom!
meditating mind
empty open free
where are my car keys?
(c) 2013 TJ Radcliffe
image (cc) 2013 Hilary Farmer
Check out this photography blog with some lovely detail shots of flowers, architecture and more.
UPDATE: Original poem from Tom in the comments! Captures the image very well – thanks Tom!
Floral embers smoulder, bursting fire
beneath the gusting winds of warming Spring
raising up the Year King on his pyre
to burn within the sacred garden’s ring
where arms of leafy green are raised up high
to welcome back the Eastern-rising sun
rebirth is in the air across the shire;
Winter’s reign at last is finally done!
So brightly burn the floral fires today
that only for a moment will they last
yet toward the Summer they will light our way
melting Winter’s grip so cold and fast.
So the Year King burns, for he is slain,
Yet all that dies will one day live again.
(c) 2013 TJ Radcliffe
image (cc) 2013 Hilary Farmer
This is a really quick doodle (maybe under a minute) I tweeted the other day. Tom tweeted back this great haiku:
lo! arising loon
just to speak on weighty things
then light on water!
I really like the idea that the loon got distracted from his important speech by the beauty of the scene. ummm… what was I going to say again??
I’ve been painting more than doodling lately so it takes longer to get something blog-worthy but I should have something new soon… and I have worked some more on the paintings in progress in the previous post so I may post them again for the comparison. I feel like I am starting to get somewhere – while recognizing the length of the road… enjoying the journey though!
Take a minute and check out this lovely sketch – but then I am very fond of cats – and this blog is from a cat’s perspective – very cute!
image: Hilary Farmer (cc) 2013
haiku: Tom Radcliffe (c) 2013
Finally posting an image for Chinese New Year! We were busy last weekend with celebrating – eating Chinese dumplings with friends – mmmm!
I was having a difficult time thinking of a way to make a snake cute. So when I saw a really cute snake in the style of a traditional Chinese paper-cut on a billboard in the metro last week, I let myself be inspired… yes, that’s where idea of the flowers came from!
Here’s Tom’s haiku from when I posted this image on twitter.
a lisping forked tongue
funky flower-petal skin
year of the cute snake!
(c) TJ Radcliffe 2013
image (cc) 2013 Hilary Farmer (with credit to billboard artist!)
Green Tea Doodles 