Courtshoetrainers

Michael sent me these. Thanks Michael...apparently Michael drew these while he was on the phone. They're great... look like a Nike design for court shoe/trainer... I wonder where that hairy leg goes to... does it signify uncertainty...or is that me know nothing about psychology and making things up?... Michaels lack of sketchy lines means he must be a very good artist - line drawings are often the key to technically solid artwork.

The classic motifs

So my friend Nicola has given me some of her doodles... and they are the classic flower/butterfly ones. What does it mean when are doodles are all differnt? Why are they sometimes considered (copied from something be it memory or sight) compared to unconsidered like Alex's boxes....which end up with an order anyway. I wonder if you got 20 people in a room and told them to doodle through a lecture, how many flowers there would be, compared to eyes..another classic...and boxes or swirls. Are people that draw flowers the people that think less or think more? Do people that draw boxes have more imagination than flower drawers??

Let the psychoanalysis begin!!!

Brilliant - my friend Alex has given me some real corkers. Proper stream of consciousness shit - this is the real deal....Alex admits he is mildly 'obsessive compulsive'... I think the boxes demonstrate this ... there are a lot interesting letters in boxes...why?

This is proper Tracy Emin stuff though... check out the hardcore pen marks in the boxes - obsessive filling in. The boxes remind me of Hitchcocks's 'The Birds'.... thanks Alex!

Weird Deer

I just found this in the back of one of my work notebooks.... I remember drawing the deer because I was in a meeting room with a fake taxidermy deer on the wall... I got the horns all wrong. But WHAT is the weird woman in the frame???? I can't remember drawing it... a classic ghost from the past? woooo spooky weirdo alert!!!

Doodles....thousands of them!

Actually only 4 - some more that I came across in my Uni notes....

Firstly this weird sketch of something I guess going on in my sub con when studying Lacan's deconstruction of Poe's 'The Purloined Letter' - Clealry I was only half listening to the lecture.... actually since Lacan is all about deconstruction, hopefully he would be proud.



Secondly a picture of Freud...I reckon I was reading 'On Sexuality' ...









Next a picture of some kids climbing a railway line - I have no idea what I copied this from - maybe a picture hanging in the classroom or something..........












And finally these two girls, who were actually randomly the Princesses of Lichenstein and Luxembourg. They were in my art business course and all they did was whisper to each other....I should have paid more attention to their faces and sold the sketches to Hello Magazine Luxembourg... oh well

Singer

I just did this for someone I love cos they asked me to. He sent me a photo to copy so its more a sketch than a doodle... Also the sketch is singing... so it's not unsung.... does that even make sense???

American Teacher

These are some sketches of one of my favourite American Literature teachers. He always really stunk of booze - crazy dude that he was... but the way he taught was poetic. In fact, he sounded and behaved like Morgan Freeman when he is acting "the wise man". I remember shedding a tear when he was teaching us about Toni Morrison, especially when he read passages from 'Beloved'....I must have been hungover as well :) I hope he is ok these days...