It's one of those days......

Miss Doodle knows what to do with her day and her hair, as opposed to the secretary.....

Monday January 5, 2008 - VISIT THE CLOTHARIUM

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Monday September 29th, 2008 - working for the exhibition

Miss Doodle is very busy helping her secretary to make a list of all the pieces which will go into the exhibition in November. Watercolour paintings, textile works, acrylic paintings both on canvas and on paper , prints, all in all 61 pieces. Some are already in Germany, and some are still in Paris.

At the same time the secretary (driving her husband crazy with this last-minute-inspirational-artwork:) puts the final stitches (or almost final:) to the three textile pieces which will go into a collective exhibition here in Paris...


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September 16th, 2008 - Preparing for the "FULL METAL JACKET" mode

Soon tough times will begin. From late September until February/March, Paris is on a race. With it's peak just before Christmas. The metro is overcrowded, and so are the streets and the shops and the museums, life is speed.

In view of this franctic period, Miss Doodle asked her secretary to design her a protective outfit, comfortable, capable to ward off fiercest attacks and still looking stylish....


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Monday, July 21st, 2008 - SNEAK PREVIEW

SNEAK PREVIEW ON EXHIBITION "ANCESTORSPIRITS" IN NOVEMBER


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Juli 15th, 2008 - STREET STILL LIFE: The abandoned watermelon, orange and banana with pigeon

NB: The secretary used a black ink pen here, watersoluble, which gives the whole painting a touch of "rainy day"... it isn't a rainy day, but a very sunny one. And this watermelon on the sidewalk: the passers-by do not allow themselves to look at it and to ponder it, except the pigeon and two little girls, walking hand in hand, yelling: Iiiiihhh (meaning something like YIKES), although this watermelon still does look beautiful, juicy and not damaged (yet). So, what is upseeting them (and Miss Doodle) ? It must be the soaked tissue paper, waste chewing gum and aluminium foil strips etc...lying there too, the whole image is one of waste.

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Thursday July 1st, 2008 - the Madman

Paris is a big city. Big cities use to host madmen and madwomen.

Our madman sits in the metro car, with three empty seats around him, and when the secretary tries to sit down, he yells most agressive things and she quickly backs away, angry and shocked and upset. Very upset. You cannot yell back at these people because you have to be cautious
around them. So you stay with your anger. You either let it eat up your stomach or you forget about it. Get it out of your head.

In order to do so, the secretary turns to her sketchbook. But she doesn't dare to sketch this man right there cause he goes on ranting and yelling, trying to catch people's eyes to mob them. Okay, so she does it at home. The interesting thing is, that the man turns out much older than the model.

The secretary sketches an angry Miss Doodle too. Talk about action and reaction.

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Monday June 30th, 2008 - Miss Doodle's Secretary highly sceptical

Today we let you have a look into the sketchbook. This is Miss Doodle's secretary trying to sketch herself in a highly sceptical mood, together with some Doodle Soup Cans and Miss Doodle taking three hurdles (upper left corner). As the expression on the secretary's face shows, she is not happy with the selfportraits, she finds that she is not so angular, and she finds that these sketches are too flattering. Well, we don't give a dime, cause this is about drawing essentials:)


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Monday June 16th, 2008 - The secretary's sketchbook

Where the secretary finds her Inspiration for the colours of Miss Doodle's new dresses..

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June 13th, 2008 - The secretary's sketchbook

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Tuesday, June 10th, 2008 - Ponderings on feminism

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Note from the secretary: this post speaks of what has become of some of the ideas we had during the 70ies. The french context: you are supposed to buy expensive clothes and highheeled shoes, you have to like to work like a dog and care for the entire family lovingly, you must buy magazins showing you what the ideal women and her outfit should be, while those who are the LAW are gathering in their soupkitchens, brewing court-decisions against a girl who assured her future husband that she was a virgin although she wasn't, and now the marriage has been cancelled by a judge, so to speak.

YUCK

Portraits (Andrea on CESTANDREA still banned!)

Suddenly, while we were walking across the fields, he picked this blooming dandelion up and blew it. I told him to do it once more for the camera, grumpily he obliged:) - that's my husband.

Here you can see better the two wooden african sculptures, plus Dad and the Giraffe.

I like this portrait of my mom and brother. My Mother usually never smiles on pictures because she hates being photographed. So I have to be patient and ambush her:)

These three are nice together...

This is my brother and me, at my parent's house. I look a bit fat, I think the window does that:)

Oscar sneaking through the fern.

Barley, oh so green.

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IF YOU'D LIKE TO SEE SOME MORE METROHEADS, PLEASE COME TO MISS DOODLES FRENCH BLOG - VIA THE LINK IN THE SIDEBAR

The House with the Fishpond

CESTANDREA's BLOG IS TEMPORARILY BANNED;
So Miss Doodle gives her secretary, Andrea, some space here:)


THE HOUSE WITH THE FISH POND

and if you'd like to share some music with me, wakeup music, get aware music from Arcade Fire with a beautiful video clip

(I hope this link works, I don't post videos anymore as I got spam comment probably because of that)

My Dad was sleeping here, and I had a wonderful quiet moment to sketch him.



This is my brother's and my sister in law's house. My brother bought this place which was a barn with a pigpen.
He bought the necessary equipment from a carpenter who had shut down his shop plus an old tractor. Then he completely emptied the barn and , with the help of my dad and other qualified people, made a lovely home out of it.



You can see, it has a workshop attached, and a porch on the right side which is attached to the back of the neighbour's house. In front of the porch is the fish pond.

The gutters of the porchroof end in a dragon's mouth, you can see that on my painting, so when the rain is falling, the dragon is spitting water into the pond and the fishes are happy.


The fish pond: fat gold fishes and little grey one's, I don't know their names.

This is a view from the upper part of the place.

The family is sitting there in the shade, my mom Marianne, my brother Volker and his wife LovelyN, and my Dad Joachim. My mom is very amused and the picture makes her look as if she wear a strange headdress...The girafe in the background is made of fabric and was a gift from my brother's students. My sweet sister in law Lovelyn is from Africa, and in the house and around it there is a lot of African art.

I hope you all enjoy these pictures, I do, while I'm waiting to get my other blog back and enjoy

the May sun.

love

Andrea

May 20, 2008 - Miss Doodle's secretary

Hey are there Pixies in this galaxy? Some minutes ago we taped like wild,

leaving a text for this picture, and now it's all gone.

Well. Here we go again.

Miss Doodle's secretary declines work. All she wants is finish this novel and drink this beer while Miss Doodle is busy on the metro portraying people. The sun is shining, people look

considerably happy. So do we. If this post let's himself post now we will even be happier.

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April 1st, 2008 - The French Day to Day World....

is still capable to astonish Miss Doodle's secretary!

Yesterday morning:

She has an appointment with her dentist at 10 am, so she leaves home at 9.20 which is ok if nothing unforeseen happens. Miss Doodle's secretary is almost always punctual but never early, time is measured:)

So: here she is, she just arrived at the bus station a minute ago and there is the Bus showing up! Lucky she is and she thinks: Oh thank you, heaven, for sending me this bus right now, I am always lucky, thank you, thank you...

Next thing the bus rushes past, the secretary, aghast, raises her arm but the driver (a woman!) doesn't even look her way. By the way, Miss Doodle is in that bus.

Fuming, the secretary has to wait for the next bus. Which arrives 7 minutes later, which means that she'll be late.

Still quite pissed (sorry for the bad language) she asks the driver about why the previous busdriver hasn't stopped and he says: "But, my Lady, this is logical: you should have made a sign with your hand! By the way, this is written on the bus-stations and in the busses:

"Good bustaking practise n°1: make a sign with your hand when the bus arrives".

See? It is logical...."

Well, the secretary (somewhat stubborn) doesn't see the logic. She indeed admits having read these instructions, but hasn't she been standing at that bus station like a conspicuous tower and what could a person standing conspicuously at a bus station, want but a ride????

Luckily, the dentist was 7 minutes late:)

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Der französische Alltag birgt immer noch Überraschungen für Miss Doodles Sekretärin.

Zahnarzttermin um 10, d.h. die Sekretärin geht um 9.20 Uhr aus dem Haus, genügend Zeit wenn nichts dazwischen kommt. Die Sekretärin ist ein relativ pünktlicher Mensch, es darf aber nichts schiefgehen.

Sie kommt an die Bushaltestelle, eine Minute später kommt schon der Bus und sie denkt: Oh fein, danke lieber Gott, dass Du mir gleich den Bus geschickt hast, das klappt ja prima.

Da rauscht der Bus einfach an ihr vorbei, sie hat kaum Zeit den Arm zu haben, und schon ist er weit weg! Genervt wartet sie auf den nächsten Bus, der kommt 7 Minuten später. Immer noch sauer, fragt sie den Busfahrer, aus welchem guten Grund der vorige Bus sie wohl nicht mitgenommen haben könnte...

Der Busfahrer sagt: Meine Dame, das ist doch logisch. Sie müssen ein Handzeichen machen. Steht doch überall, gucken Sie hier, ein Aufkleber, da steht:

"Wie man sich beim Busfahren richtig verhält, Regel n°1: Wenn der Bus kommt, müssen Sie ein Handzeichen machen".

Die Sekretärin, (leicht stur:) findet das überhaupt nicht logisch. Was kann jemand, der wie ein Aussichtsturm weithin sichtbar an einer Bushaltestelle steht, wohl wollen?

Zum Glück war der Zahnarzt 7 Minuten zu spät:)