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. If there is paper around and my hands aren't occupied, art happens... I've been known to make good use of scrap cardboard from the backing of notepads and such!
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...
Third Eye ACTIVATE! 12/10/2012
Here is something I brought home from last week...
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| ball point pen and dry erase markers on chipboard backing from a scratch pad of paper (5in x 3in) |
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| "The Sticky Incident" Inks on Sticky Notes (2007-08) |
ART HAPPENS!
What do you like to doodle on?
01/27/2011
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Here's a newer doodle of note (pardon the pun) from this past week.
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| 04/09/11 Ball Point Pen and Highlighter on scrap Chipboard |
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| 04/18/11 Ball Point Pen on scrap Chipboard |
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| 05/11/11 Ball Point Pen and Highlighter on scrap Chipboard |
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| 05/28/11 Ball Point Pen and Dry Erase Marker on Card Stock |
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| 06/16/11 Gel Ink Pen on Chipboard |
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| 08/06/2011 Hotel Preston (Nashville) |
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| 08/16/11 Ball Point pens on Chipboard, taking over a doodle from Cameron McKnight, a co-worker. |
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| 09/01-02/2011 |
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| 09/19/2011 Topsy-Turvy |
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| 09/21/2011 |
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| 10/04/11 Gel Ink Pen on Scrap Printed Card Stock for Titleblocks |
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| 10/29/2011 |
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| 11/09/2011 |
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| 12/01/2011 |
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| 12/27/2011 |
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| 12/28/2011 |
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| 01/20-22/2012 |
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| Gel Ink on Card Stock / 01/27/12 |
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| 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! |
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| 02/01/2012 |
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| Topsy-Turvy 02/04/2012 |
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| Topsy-Turvy 02/08/2012 |
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| 02/09/2012 |
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| 02/09/2012 |
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| 02/10/2012 |
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| 02/10/2012 |
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| 02/12/2012 |
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| 02/13/2012 |
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| 02/14/2012 |
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| 02/16/2012 |
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| 02/17/2012 |
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| February 2012 |
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| 03/06/2012 |
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| 03/08/2012 |
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| 03/10/2012 |
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| 03/12/2012 |
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| 03/13/2012 |
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| 03/15/2012 |
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| 03/16/2012 |
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| 04/10/2012 / Metallic Sharpie on 1TB External Hard Drive! |
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| 04/18/2012 |
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| 04/19/2012 |
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| 04/27/2012 |
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| Cardboard Packaging from a Roll of Tape |
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| Topsy-Turvy Doodle |
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| Ritz-Carlton in Cancun, Mexico (05/06/2012) |
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| 05/23/2012 |
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| May 2012 |
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| June 2012 |
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| June 2012 |
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| June 2012 |
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| 07/06/2012 |
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| 07/07/2012 (Lexington, KY) |
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| Pen & Dry Erase Marker / July 2012 |
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| Pen & Dry Erase Marker / July 2012 |
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| Pen on Cardboard / 2012 |
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| The KINGmaker (09/2012) |
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| 12/08/2012 (2x Original Size) |
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| Crowning Kings 12/11/12 |
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| Dunce Doodle 12/12/12 |
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| 12/17/12 (Click HERE for BAD ART POPPED OUT!) |
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| UPs and DOWNs - Lightning in a Bottle 12/19/12 |
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| sunSPOT 3in x 3in |
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| December 2012 |
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| December 2012 |
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| Shoot 'Em Up 12/28/12 |
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| Third Eye to the 33rd (red sharpie, highlighter and blue pen on scrap cardboard) |
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| Blue Pen, Red Pen and White Out on Sticky Note 12/12 |
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| Blinded by the Light (found after the fact - Circa 2009?) |
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| 2/11/13 |
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| 02/2013 TASTE WHAT I SEE |
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| 02/2013 THE DEVIL INSIDE |
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| 03/13 Bite Your Tongue |
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| 03/13 |
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| dOOdle in a Blue Dress / March 3013 |
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| To the 9th Power / April 2013 |
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| Zombifying the Stock Girl - April 2013 |
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| A Match Made In... April 2013 |
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| hOOked on a FEELing |
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| Horny Little Doodle |
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| High Five Stayin' Alive |
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| EYESUCK |
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| Holy Batsh*t Batman! |
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| Choking on the Sight of Sound |
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| Mean as Hell Doodle |
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| X-Cited |
WOW! These are great!
ReplyDeleteI really like your style, it's slick. I especially the big eyes and teeth, it's something I like drawing too.
Thanks Joshua! Been drawing goofy faces since it was all over my homework in school.
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