Doodles

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.- Anais Nin

  

I think Anais Nin hits it on the head. I certainly don't realize that is what I am doing most times, but none-the-less I think it is true. The first thing I remember drawing was in Kindergarten. I divided a piece of paper by folding it in half long ways and short ways, then corner to corner. For a long time I colored the areas created by doing this right around the rainbow, mind you there were only 6 colors that I understood then. I  remember coloring all the areas, just not sure exactly what I did about those two extra areas. 

By the time I was in 6th grade, I was aware I could draw, and that I enjoyed being creative and moved away from the pure geometry to drawing what I saw, or interpreting what I saw.

The geometric designs are doodles from sitting listening to the phone ring when I call farmers and ranchers at work. As simple as they are, when you divide them into 30 second blocks they take about a week. The first one, begat the second one, and it is easy to see the similarity. The third design, which is much more organic, is based on what bled through the paper from the second one. It took a while to create, but again, 30 seconds at a time and drawing on breaks. Black ink and felt tip pens.

The two landscape drawings are from Two Day Town In Livermore at the end of April. Drawing and listening to music. For an artist there are few things better. The first one is pencil and ink, the second is just pencil. The orange kitty is for my friend Patrica who has kindly taken me to doctors appointments, picked me up for church. and listened to me bitch about the Drivers License situation. This is a mixed media piece of Black ink, felt tip pens and colored pencil. As you can tell it combines geometric design with rendering. 

How does this tie into the quote? Well, I tend to look at the world and see patterns, and patterns use geometry for cohesive repetition. Doing the same thing over and over and expecting a predictable result. I try to be creative in a somewhat predictable way.