What a long week! What with mad bombers and North Korea and taxes and sexy exes and goodness knows what else, I am totally ready to phone in today’s blog post. Fortunately I have the ideal solution for a quick but fun post! This year I forgot to celebrate Ferrebeekeeper’s 3rd anniversary. For our first year celebration I published a group of doodles. These are little drawings which I do at the Monday morning staff meeting at the beginning of every work week. This might sound well…sketchy, but I assure you doodling keeps me alert and allows me to remember what was said at each meeting. As you can see from the strange eclectic subjects, I think the whimsy and freedom of the weekend hasn’t quite worn off when I draw these. Sometimes, during my lunch break I color my little doodles in with highlighters or crayons. So here are 21 weeks’ worth of Monday morning staff meeting doodles. These little throw-away doodles open up a world into the subconscious where our true feelings about the universe can be found. Strangely these doodles reveal that I really like melting Middle Eastern cities of arabesques and angels (?). Less surprisingly I love fantasy beasts, gardens, fish, and mammals. I’m not sure why I love paisleys so much—maybe the sixties had a greater influence on me than I know (though I certainly wasn’t around back then).
My favorite is the little purple pleasure garden where a flamingo watches a phoenix fly away from the ruins of an alien robot (below), but I also like the bat and the geometric widget beast relaxing by a tree at sunset, as well as the underwater city of sharks and biomechanical walking buildings. Which ones do you like? Please leave a comment–I promise I’ll respond next week!
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April 19, 2013 at 10:57 PM
jimannh
Your doodles R swell. Particular fave is star-nosed push-me pull-you with maskadon, (your menagerie delights) but I also love the purple pleasure garten, full of middle-ground action wisely anchored by temple-tree, Christmas t(h)ree and flamingo-flower. I appreciate the goodly wiggles, over all/all over order and general benevolence of your work. Do carry on.
…and thank you kindly for sharing your generous and most splendid blog.
April 22, 2013 at 4:53 PM
Wayne
Ha! Thanks for the kind comments and for the vividly whimsical creature names. I like the poetry of your descriptions quite a lot.