Tattoos Famili: The Doodles (You Caught Me!)

Drawing has always been a nervous habit for me. My dad got called to school when I was in the fifth grade to discuss this compulsion and its "interruption of my learning" even though I had practically straight A's. The problem was I was (and am) scatter-brained and have to channel the voices so to speak. Teacher thinks I don't listen because I doodle and draw. My notebooks in school would contain illustrations and scribbles throughout. I would often turn in my homework and worksheets with things sketched all over them. This has continued throughout every job I have ever had. If there is paper around and my hands aren't occupied, art happens. My current job involves a lot of talking on the phone and monitoring my employees on their phone calls. During my execution of such managerial marketing duties, idle hands find re-purposed office supplies.

Here is something I brought home from last week...


ball point pen and dry erase markers on chipboard backing from a scratch pad of paper (5in x 3in)

When I first started the job a few years back, I had a bad habit of drawing on sticky notes. Usually, now it's incorporated into my notes and thrown away but sometimes I put to use the cardboard scrap such as is used above. I did have a little stack of the stickies going though and what resulted was this work from my solo exhibit, "Scraps & Motives" at Cafe Coco in 2008...


"The Sticky Incident" Inks on Sticky Notes (2007-08)

ART HAPPENS!

What do you like to doodle on?

01/27/2011

Here's a newer doodle of note (pardon the pun) from this past week.

04/09/11 Ball Point Pen and Highlighter on scrap Chipboard

04/18/11 Ball Point Pen on scrap Chipboard

05/11/11 Ball Point Pen and Highlighter on scrap Chipboard

05/28/11 Ball Point Pen and Dry Erase Marker on Card Stock

06/16/11 Gel Ink Pen on Chipboard

08/06/2011 Hotel Preston (Nashville)

08/16/11 Ball Point pens on Chipboard, taking over a doodle from Cameron McKnight, a co-worker.

09/01-02/2011

09/19/2011 Topsy-Turvy

09/21/2011

10/04/11 Gel Ink Pen on Scrap Printed Card Stock for Titleblocks

10/29/2011

11/09/2011

12/01/2011

12/27/2011

12/28/2011

01/20-22/2012

Gel Ink on Card Stock / 01/27/12

Several months back, we were out of town in a hotel and I put down a couple of doodles which we gave to my wife's friend. To my surprise, she scanned them and used one as the image on her new debit card!