Thinking of Wildflowers
January 30, 2019 at 2:40 pm | Posted in Art Studio | Leave a commentTags: colored pencil drawing, drawing journal
It’s late January, and already green wildflower sprouts are poking up through the cold soil. Then found this in one of my journals.
Turning
February 8, 2018 at 7:59 pm | Posted in Art Studio, Considering Ideas | Leave a commentTags: charcoal drawing, drawing journal
“Time slipped its noose like a wild horse.” I wrote in one of my journals
about 30 years ago. Even then, feeling as if I was running behind myself.
Still haven’t caught up. Now knowing that it doesn’t matter as long as I’m
moving forward, sometimes looking back to where I was.
Cool Blue River
June 11, 2016 at 11:50 am | Posted in Art Studio | Leave a commentTags: Art, drawing journal, Kern River, river, sketch
Doodle-Do
January 7, 2013 at 3:30 pm | Posted in Art Studio, Considering Ideas | Leave a commentTags: bird, brainstorming, colored pencil drawing, creative thinking, CREATIVITY, design, doodle, doodling, drawing journal, intuitive, universal symbols
Webster’s defines doodle as: (to) dawdle; trifle; an aimless or casual scribble, design, or sketch; also: a minor work; Synonymous with fooling around, messing around, fiddling, puttering, etc. The definitions imply that simply making marks on paper, idly, is something unworthy of serious consideration. I once believed that also. My understanding is different now. Now, I see doodling as very similar to intuitive painting. Art is all about making marks.
As a method, doodling is a great brainstorming, block breaking, and creative thinking exercise. Much different than an observational drawing or a planned composition, drawing without a set goal can access the subconscious and key into universal symbols, such as the circle, spiral and triangle. Doodling can also be a starting point. A writer will scribble a word or bits of thought on a scrap of a paper, a napkin, or a receipt, ideas that may develop into an essay, a poem. Similarly, a doodle may be the seed of something else, lead to new directions, highlight concerns, or exist on its own. Here, my doodle detail reminds me again of a love of pattern, and oh Yeah! a reoccurring artistic preoccupation with all things bird, wings, and flight.
Doodle On!
from my journal
October 15, 2012 at 10:19 am | Posted in Art Studio | 1 CommentTags: drawing journal, pen drawing, pumpkin, sketch
a bit of October
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