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Here are two more little flounder doodles which I make during the spare moments of the day. The one at the top is a garden flounder which makes me think of spring…but with some sort of automated gardening machine that looks like a bug sitting atop of it. Below is a post-apocalyptic fluke in the middle of the desert badlands of the grim future. I have no idea what it means. Maybe these have something to do with that perplexing German flounder fable about what we really want.
Watermelon Slices (Wayne Ferrebee, 2015, colored pencil and ink)
It’s another August day that ineluctably slipped away–so here are some illustrations/doodles from the little book I carry around with me. I drew the garden (?) image above today during lunch (half) hour and then illustrated it on the train and at my desk.I think the little toy ghost is cutting watermelons and peaches held aloft by a penguin, but the real nature of what is going on is uncertain. That many-legged larva is probably not as innocent as it is pretending to be.
Sundry (Wayne Ferrebee, 2015, colored pencil and ink)
Here is some detritus from our culture (and beyond) with sea creatures mixed in to prevent our junk from being boring. The three-eyed being peaks in from the future and the ice cream is the promise of sweetness.
Barnyard Characters (Wayne Ferrebee, 2015, colored pencil and ink)
Finally here is a goofy scene of barnyard follies with Mother Goose, a handy goblin man, and a clownish ghost. As happens on the farm, they are all surrounded by geese, ducks, and sundry birds, while a cat looks on with incredulity. Enjoy the drawings and let me know if you have any ideas for tomorrow’s blog. it is officially the silly season of journalism and even our twenty-four-hour news cycle is not kicking up much new material. We’ll have to make our own bucolic summer fun!
Noodler’s Forest Green Fountain Pen Ink
Today we feature a short post about ink…among other things. The other night I rediscovered my old dip pens and I was doing some doodling (more about that later). It reminded me of how wonderful dip pens, quills, and fountain pens really are. I did some online research and I found a contemporary ink company called “Noodler’s Ink” which is an American company which specializes in fancy inks and pigments for specialty pens. The reason this belongs on this blog is that they are obsessed with catfish—which feature heavily on their marketing and promotional material. Here are some of the endearing and whimsical catfish drawings which Noodler’s puts on their bottles and boxes of ink.
Various boxes of Noodler’s Black Ink
Noodling is a sort of loose word which can be used to describe doodling, but it is also a traditional southern method of fishing for catfish where the angler uses his or her fingers as a lure. The intrepid fisherperson reaches into promising holes and pits in the bottom of the waterway and wiggles his fingers provocatively in hopes that a catfish will mistake them for some sort of prey. If the catfish bites the angler’s hand he then uses brute strength to wrestle the fish bodily from the water. Below is a picture of a Lucy Millsap, a professional (?) noodler landing a monstrous flathead catfish. It sounds like an interesting sport I guess, but I think I’ll stick to noodlin’ with paper and ink.
Lucy Millsap with a Flathead Catfish she captured by “noodling”
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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