May inspiration always light upon you.
This blog will post doodles, random inspirations, observations and serendipity. Doodles are a favorite, because they’re the seeds for future ideas. (To find a specific blog: scroll or click Blog on Home Page and scroll.)
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When you ride a cat, you must tip your hat.
This image is a not as precise as most of my geometric doodles look, but I really like how it came out. I experiment with an app called iColorama, which…
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Le Robot et L’Oiseau
I liked the French version of this doodle for a title. I was listening to an audio book about future happenings, while I doodled on my iPad. This robot showed…
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One of my favorites.
This painting is from the archive of my traditional art. It is not digital, and did not come from a doodle. It is acrylic on Gesso, on illustration board–inspired by…
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Float your idea in a different medium for a fresh approach.
Think of all the different traditional media that might be best for your idea. It will give it an entirely new slant, guaranteed! It could be a rubber stamp, a…
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Mr. Potato Head threw a party for his friends.
And they brought more friends. They all enjoyed themselves very much, sipping tea and eating fresh baked scones with raspberry jam. As they caught up on their different stories, they…
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How to Tame an Alligator
This is a mini lesson on shape. Think of your subject as forced into a shape. A circle, triangle, and square are like the primary colors. It’s where you start.…
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Sometimes you just gotta do a chicken.
On this one, my stylus and I were at a crossroads. The stylus wanted to do a duck standing in a pond, and I wanted to do a chicken. So…
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“Skippy the Magnificent” and the golden orb
There is a Sci-Fi fan in the house, so I have been exposed to a lot of Sci-fi characters. Skippy is from the Craig Alanson book series “Expeditionary Force”. According…
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How a cat arrived in Paris
I keep a digital sketchbook of abandoned doodles. One day, I was poking through its pages and ran across an image which at first, looked like an abstract mouse head.…
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Some specific insights. . .
The last blog addressed general arts. This post is more specific to the visual arts. Recently, there was a news item about an astounding bid for a banana secured to…
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It’s different for everyone–so where to go from there:
Art is like soul. It is who you are. Your attitudes, likes and dislikes all come intoplay. You can find art in a good golf swing, or a beautiful math…
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Photo painting–a form of doodling
Every so often, I will relax and just paint on top of photos. It’s mindless. However, it can produce subtle and sometimes startling, results. I like the flatness it produces…
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Wiggly Man with Hat and Umbrella
First came Wiggly Man. Then he cleaned up his act and acquired a hat and umbrella.
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A Croak and a Roar
A croak and a roar popped out of my iPad last night. The croak came first, in the spirit of a rather complex, geometric-looking frog. The roar came second. I…
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“You are your own AI.”
That thought occurred to me as I struggled with the incoming storm surge of yet another technical evolution. There are really no answers to all the questions. It will rain…
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Serendipity
One day there was not a thought in mind, but randomness. I looked at the mess confronting me and faces began to look out. The style called “Expressionism” floated through…
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Sweet Nature.
I like to abstract and stylize, but I have to admit, it was very satisfying to doodle through this normal scene, as I played with Procreate brushes. It was done…
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A Gothic Parody
The doodle portrait below was the inspiration for “Wall Street Gothic”–a parody on Grant Wood’s “American Gothic.” I tend to think of Illustrations as cleaned up doodles–they go through a…
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Tracing: how I use it occasionally
Yesterday, I ran across a photo of a woman whose head was tilted at an interesting angle. It gave her a sense of intrigue, and I traced her features to…
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I saw the bull immediately.
I had finished developing some geometric shapes into a compact design and was in the midst of rotating my iPad, when I saw him. A bulbous, snorting nose. At first…
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Continuing with the tea theme:
I try for different digital styles when I doodle. A designer might refer to that approach as “variations on a theme.” Personally, I think of it as visual adventure, since…
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“It’s always teatime…”
Says the Mad Hatter in Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland. And the best thing to do with tea is to let it steep. It’s the same with a hot new…