the idea: start with a line, make a design Creating chaos is one of my favorite things to do in art. By chaos I mean a mess or a problem that you then have to sort out. That’s what is interesting. Often this means splatters of color, strange combinations of design that fill up a …
the idea: combine my doodle designs with my abstract paintings I’ve been a bit blocked lately when it comes to my oil paintings. I’ve gone into the studio and looked around but haven’t been able to make myself actually do anything. And yet my creative energy still needs to go somewhere. I’ve been writing a lot, …
What if I combined my artist signature (an M with an A inside) with the type of spontaneous geometric doodling I do? The idea came at the beginning of a class last fall and was completed by the end of it.
I got some beautiful pens for a project I did for my grandparents while in Michigan and tonight, as my family settled down to watched a movie, I decided to put them to use once again. I’ve never been much of a doodler. The “artistic” kids in school could sketch people while they were sitting …
I was never good at doodling. Not in the way that artists were supposed to be anyway. I had friends in college who could sit down and draw the person across from them in perfect detail while I was drawing the same cartoon dog and always changing patterns all over my notes. When I realized …