Monday, May 9, 2016

This is Your Brain

This is different. I started this week's goodies LAST week. It's quite unlike me to not procrastinate.

First, a carry-over for the IAST:

IAST 143
My scanner went to that great technology graveyard where so much has gone before....so it's a bit dark.
C'est la vie.

Then, it was on the search for....BRAINS!

It's the word for this week at EIM. Oh, the choices were plentiful!
I was going to go all-out Zombie, which would have required a LOT of thought as I'm not really into blood and guts. My favorite cartoon occasionally swerves into the territory, so I have to share this by Doug Savage:


Thusly, I can skip over the Zombies and move onto the choices I did go with:

We have: Stephen Hawking, brain extraordinaire, Brain from Warner Brother's "Pinky and the Brain," Einstein's Equation to describe Special Relativity and the image from the public service message from the Partnership for a Drug-Free America (1987 version). You know the one, where they fry the egg? "Any questions?"

Over at La Casa Diva, it's a duotangle tango, this time with "Drupe," a floral, and "Poke Root." This reminds me of cherries and blossoms in bloom, a visual Haiku. It's a dedication of sorts to beautiful individuals that we have held dear, how loss and life are intricately intertwined.


I ended up shading it, but I like it better without, in it's "elegant simplicity." I was also going to just Photoshop in the black, but chose to draw it in with my trusty Sharpie. It's not quite so neat, but it was the right process, nice and slow.

Lastly, I have this:


I did this for the TwobyTwo. You'll have to tune in next week to see what this could possibly have to do with "Echo." Head over to that blog tomorrow--Tuesday, natch--for the challenge post.

Be sure to check out all the associated blogs! And have a brilliant day!
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24 comments:

  1. LornaMay 9, 2016 at 5:21 PM

    Really nice composition on your Diva Challenge tile!!

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  2. KiaMay 9, 2016 at 6:45 PM

    great ideas for your inchies - really using your brain for ideas

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    1. cstocksMay 14, 2016 at 8:11 AM

      Thanks, Kia! Sometimes I actually engage the grey matter! c

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  3. Patty CZT22May 9, 2016 at 8:37 PM

    I really like your tile and your thoughts about the cherries and blossoms are right on!

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  4. freebird7100May 9, 2016 at 10:19 PM

    love all your pieces, I really adore Doug Savage. I work for a chicken company so seeing his comics always makes me smile. I do love your take on the next 2x2x2 it is a hard theme. Also I adore Pinky and the Brain!

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    1. cstocksMay 14, 2016 at 8:13 AM

      Thanks, Free! You know? I've never met anyone else that followed the Savage Chickens, my poor children excepted. Love them and the Animaniacs. Now, onto "echo!" c

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  5. CarmelaMay 10, 2016 at 12:16 PM

    Lovely work, you were very busy.

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    1. cstocksMay 14, 2016 at 8:13 AM

      Thank you, Carmela. I seem to have too much time on my hands lately. Riiiiight. c

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  6. JennyJMay 10, 2016 at 12:24 PM

    What a busy bee you have been this week - love it all especially your ruminations over brain - and there was me thinking there was only the grey matter! Great duo tangle too.

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    1. cstocksMay 14, 2016 at 8:14 AM

      Thank you, Jenny! Oh, the choices were endless! c

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  7. jeanchaneyazMay 10, 2016 at 6:03 PM

    Clever "brains" ideas. I like what you came up with for your challenge piece. The black makes it quite dramatic.

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    1. cstocksMay 14, 2016 at 8:15 AM

      Thanks, Jean! I've been trying to work on a higher level of contrast and this one really needed it. c

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  8. The Yorkshire TortoiseMay 10, 2016 at 9:29 PM

    Lovely Diva tile. It really does look like blossom which is very appropriate at this time of year.

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    1. cstocksMay 14, 2016 at 8:18 AM

      Thank you so much, but I have to live vicariously through this internet thingie. Spring was months ago here, and I had some apricot blooms in March. I don'think I've seen a real cherry tree in YEARS. What a gift of trees the government of Japan gave to the USA. They enchant always. c

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  9. Anne's tangle blogMay 10, 2016 at 11:27 PM

    I love the contrast in your Diva tile.

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    1. cstocksMay 14, 2016 at 8:20 AM

      Much appreciated, Annemarie. I'm growing to like the black background all hatched up. c

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  10. WendyKMay 11, 2016 at 6:45 AM

    Great tangles and inchies, you do seem to come up with some out of the box ideas.

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    1. cstocksMay 14, 2016 at 8:21 AM

      Surely, I couldn't just go with a drawing of a brain, there was too much good stuff to pass up! Thanks for stopping by, Wendy! c

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  11. Suzanne Fluhr May 12, 2016 at 10:00 PM

    Hmm. I might have to "borrow" your "visual Haiku" meme for my Zentangle classes. I think it's a perfect description. (I'll make sure they don't think I had the creativity to come up with it on my own.) ;-) "Visual Haiku" is also an apt descriptor of your Diva duotangle tile---now that you mention it.

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    1. cstocksMay 14, 2016 at 8:25 AM

      Aww, thank you, Suzanne. I'm honored that you think enough of what I came up with to want to spread the word. I really wanted to create a haiku, but the words weren't working quite right. Perhaps a ghost from English composition classes past? Besides, if a picture is worth 1000 words, that's waaaaay over the 17-syllable limit. c

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  12. ria matheussenMay 15, 2016 at 3:43 AM

    I like both of your tiles; the one for IAST and certainly the one for the Diva's Challenge; the black on this tile give an extra dimension on this drawing, very nice done

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  13. cstocksMay 15, 2016 at 3:31 PM

    Thank you, Maria; I appreciate you saying so. c

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