Friday, June 18, 2010

Miss Doodle's Summerdays - the old shed




The Little darling Spring has run away
The sunshine grew too hot for her to stay
She kissed her sister, Summer,and she said
"When I am gone, you must be queen instead"
Now reigns the Lady Summer, round whose feet
A thousand fairies flock with blossoms sweet.

Petit printemps chéri s'est enfui.

Le soleil est devenu trop chaud pour lui.
Il embrassa sa sœur l'Eté, et lui dit :
"Quand je serai parti, vous serez reine à ma place"
C'est le règne de Dame Eté maintenant

Et danse à ses pieds une ronde de mille fées
coiffées de jolies fleurs sucrées.
(
transl.FL)



Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Miss Doodle's Nuancier - Color and Dress Codes - Watercolor Illustration

Miss Doodle can't help it, instead of watching the news and going mad about what's happening everywhere in this world, she pulls out her colors and goes to work....

Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Monday, May 31, 2010

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

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

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Quicumque vult.....

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Miss Doodle is back and dancing in the rain with her secretary. She read a book during her vacation, about a (fable says the church:) woman who reigned as Pope in 850 AD (approx). While reading, she doodles these two guys into her notebook.
She didn't get the words right, the correct words are: QUICUMQUE VULT.... which is part of a catholic doctrine (about 320 AD) which said that you will NOT be saved if you do not follow the catholic religion. I'm banalizing, of course. Just so you know that we're back here, too:)
the secretary

Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Miss Doodle Metro Overdose


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Miss Doodle's Secretary is adjusting to this new, relatively white paper she uses, and it's rough quality, (compared with the very smooth and yellowish paper of the Moleskine notebooks she used before). The colors show up nicely, it's the white background which feels 'wrong" at the beginning.
While portraying Miss Doodle and this round tourist Lady, the secretary thought of a silly song she heard as a child (in 1961, she was 4:), sung by an American singer who was quite famous in Germany at that time, Bill Ramsey. I wonder if he ever had any success in the US but in Germany he really was very very popular. It went like that: "Das ist die Zuckerpuppe aus der Bauchtanztruppe von der ganz Marokko spricht..." which means: "That's the sweetie of the belly-dance company everybody in Marokko is talking about"....
You don't know if you should cry or laugh, if you hear this...If you'd like to get a glimpse into the state of lobotomized mind Germany found itself in during the 60ies, you can find the song on youtube.....:)

Monday, July 6, 2009

NYC - First Impression

First day impression, captured by Miss Doodle's secretary after a wonderful first day in the city that never sleeps (she forgot to put some yellow cabs into the drawing, this is unforgivable)/

Miss Doodle, of course, knows it all as she has been to New York already... and invites you to play a little game: can you make her out in the crowd?

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