I always have a full pantry full of food and paper and cleaning products so we did not have to make a mad dash to the store to stock up. We will be okay for a long time.
Since we retired we have filled our time with our hobbies so we continue to do the same. I have not done a new painting in over a month but I have created over 50 pieces of art in that time. On Valentines day I decided to do a heart doodle to post on Facebook. I had forgotten how much I enjoyed doodling in the past. I used to doodle when we were traveling and have filled a number of books but since we moved to NC almost 2 years ago I have only done a few. I made us for lost time this past month . All of my new doodles are done in only black on white. I decided not to use color on the originals. I can scan them and make my own "coloring book" if I fill the urge to color.
I will not post all 50 that I did recently. I chose 10 to show you starting with the one I did on Valentines Day.
I have never sold any of my doodles. I just do them for fun. I have used a few for inspiration for paintings and may do so again in the future.
Since I haven't done a painting for a month I am in the mood to do one. Roger suggested I do a southwest painting so I will take that suggestion and do a "Surreal Saguaro". The funny thing is that I came up with the idea for that painting long before I started doodling. I was at an art opening and a lady came up to me and said I see you are a Zentangle artist. I said I had no idea what that was and she told me that it was a form of doodling. I looked it up when I went home a realized she was right. I just so happened we were leaving on a cross county trip the next day so I took a sharpie and sketch pad with me and doodled in the car. By the way, I don't call what I do Zentangle any more because that is a copyright name so I just call it what it is, doodling.
Wishing everyone well and keep safe at home.
