Red Region Inferno

I often get asked by people I run into outside of my work what it is I do.

I like to say I doodle.

This of course causes some confusion.

How can that be? You doodle for a living?

That is not a doodle!

According to wikipedia
A doodle is a type of sketch, an unfocused drawing made while a person’s attention is otherwise occupied. Doodles are simple drawings that can have concrete representational meaning or may just be abstract shapes.

Stereotypical examples of doodling are found in school notebooks, often in the margins, drawn by students daydreaming or losing interest during class. Other common examples of doodling are produced during long telephone conversations if a pen and paper are available.

Popular kinds of doodles include cartoon versions of teachers or companions in a school, famous TV or comic characters, invented fictional beings, landscapes, geometric shapes, textures, banners with legends, and animations made by drawing a scene sequence in various pages of a book or notebook.

What is it, if not love? It is love in it's most true form. The storms and seasons of our most heart-felt relationships. The calm in the midsts of fire and the thorns on the vines of our most beautiful emotions. It is what happens when a pencil flows free in the hand while the mind wanders and contemplates such things.

Almost every single painting I do starts like this.

It is just me spacing out and drawing something with a pencil (like in the example above) or with a pen and then way later on if the image has captured my mind I may paint a new version.

Or…. I may not.
Sometimes I just like the drawings and never wish to paint them.
They are just fine as is.

Other times when I start a painting it is directly on canvas with paint…
same process, just skip the sketch portion.
The painting is a sketch.
I just put on some tunes and start painting. It will become what it becomes.

So… there ya have it.
I doodle for a living.