My dipsy doodles

Almost everyone doodles when they have a pen and paper. I wonder if it says anything about the person.
Whenever I find a pencil (or a pen) at hand, I doodle. This means I have the opportunity at least nine hours a day, since my desk has at least 36 pens and pencils. I am an architect. We draw, though in my case, anything I put on paper shall never be retained for posterity. And yes, I know we live in the digital age but we never got the memo on that one. As a result , most of our practice exists in the digital world, but I know colleagues who will print out and file all hundred emails they receive in a day. Can you imagine how many copies there are of precious drawings? Literally, thousands.
But let me schlep back to the beginning. I doodle flowers.Like these.

Very basic no frill flowers, which can sometimes have painfully detailed leaves. I’ve noticed that the more bored I am, the more detailed the leaves. When I’m happy, I tend to draw draw absolute tons of a hundred different-sized flowers. My notebooks are a real study of this. You will mostly find things like design ideas for a canopy right next to tons of flowers. This is because I also tend to doodle when I think. Many a post-it on my desk has perished without fulfilling its destiny of being a sticky note denoting something simply because I covered it with flowers and then was forced to throw it away. And this becomes even more fun when I have various colours to play with. So there are a hundred flowers, each of different colours.

When I was in high school, it used to be stars. Five pointy stars, not like the star of David. So I had stars all over my notebooks. I still remember the time I got into trouble with sister Edwina. She saw them upside down and I got whooped for potential pentagrams. I’d circled the best ones.

Recently I find myself drawing a brick type hatch or squares. Many times just random lines doing nothing more than lying around the paper.

So I guess if doodles say anything about a person, here’s one way of looking at it. I used to want the stars (the unattainable) got older and wiser and want flowers (not so easy to get, not counting buying them yourself) and am now headed to settle for the bottom line.

~ by summerlightning on March 13, 2007.