These are little phrases I doodled next to in a terrific Will Oldham article in the New Yorker. I erased everything surrounding and collaged them together. Just a little experiment. Just goofing around…
TAKE ME OUT TO THE BALLGAME (SO I CAN DOODLE)
Had some awesome seats and great weather to see the Rangers spank the Red Sox last night in Arlington, TX: Rangers 15, Boston 8. Ate a jumbo hot dog, a ton of nachos, and my first kolache at the Czech Stop in West, Texas along the way.
There’s a bunch of great stuff you see at a baseball game, so I always try to take my sketchbook and draw a little. Meg had the camera and caught me in action:
HOW-TO DOODLES
So you’ve left your newspapers and book stuff at home, you need to take some notes, and all I you have is this week’s New Yorker, which your wife hasn’t read yet.
What do you do?
Whip out your Sharpie and defile the “Goings On About The Town.” (No one wants to read about all the great stuff they’re missing by living outside of Manhattan anyways.)
BRUSHWORK
I prefer to think I’m just a man, not a poet part time, business man the rest….I’m no different from anyone else, just a run of the mine person. I like painting, books, poems. In my younger days I liked girls. But let’s not stress that. I have a wife.— Wallace Stevens
She said there ought to be one place you thought about and knew about and maybe longed for but never did get to see.— Alice Munro, “The Bear Came Over the Mountain”
I just doodle until I find a character; you go with the one that has a certain little spark of life….After that, I really can’t force them to do anything. They know what they want to do if they’re strong characters. And they surprise you! If they want to do something, there’s nothing I can do to stop them.—James Kochalka
At last I do not know how to draw anymore!— Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) at the end of his life
Some doodles I’ve been doing with a brush and ink.
LYNDA BARRY, “JANUARY MOURNING DOVES AND SPARROWS”
During the (still-in-progress) move, I came across these doodles that Lynda sent me as part of a letter. Everything she does inspires me to create, so I thought I’d share these.