A new work in progress….

doodle on my desk

I’ve always been slow, so this is ridiculous how slow I think these days. Too many interests and pointless worries. I do circular walks from one work area to another, checking through the layers. I have a sewing machine, storage shelves, drawers and boxes. The layers of content include: tree bark, old drawings, old journals, unused writing paper, scraps of cloth, and old objects from yard sales, one lego character, thread, twine, beads, amulets, various wires, ribbons, tools, paints, brushes…electronics, robotics and yarn.

While my remote high school art students draw, I doodle. I think they might show up just for the 20 - 30 minutes of class. My class is doodle and sketch time. Do I know what they are drawing? No, they rarely want to share out and that is okay. It’s okay because:

1) I do not give grades, officially.

2) there’s a pandemic on.

3) private time on line with permission to just do art, know other people are doing art - that no one will see - is kind of nice; kind of a gift. We are very lucky to be able to secure such a head space for each other.

Speaking for myself, it is often an Assignment that catapults me into action. The fact that others may be interested in what I might come up with next, gives me a reason. So, I have been cooking up ideas and tinkering. Because, something will gel. Then there is that last paper sculpture that I have new plans for…

The photo above is of one of my doodles that may preclude the structure of my next 2 pieces. Try this: take a line for a walk (like Paul Klee) while you are talking on a zoom call - but not the same old same old. Go somewhere new with your doodling habit.