The style of doodleism emerged in the early 2000's with a painting I did called 'Master of the Margin' based on a doodle from classroom notes, a sort of Mr. Potatoe head clown but without the potatoe. That painting sold quite some time ago, when I was still living in London Ontario. This painting is a commentary on the style itself, in the top left corner is a conveyor belt coming out of a brain, on the belt are abstract doodles falling off into a junkyard of drawings. The title in the notebooks was something like Doodle Brain Refuse, which is where the idea for the junkyard came from. The creature in the background is just hanging out...it is the dinosaurus.
I used a traditional technique for this work, establishing the outlines first (in watercolour, never pencil) and then filled in the colours as I went. Glorified paint by numbers perhaps. The style is 'traditional' now in that it has been nearly ten years since Master of the Margin was completed, and how many doodle paintings since then? Maybe 50 or so. I tried to increase the light/dark contrast and punch it up with more colours in this painting. The objects in the front are strongly lit from below.
22x30" cold press, July 2013
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