The Story Behind My Daily Doodles
Introduction
The best thing about abstract art is the fact that it seems a bit mysterious and it can mean just about anything to anyone. I’m not kidding. As far as I am concerned, that’s the big selling point. People don’t like to admit this, because owning up to the possibility that one’s art could be meaningless without someone else’s interpretation or a puffed-up artist statement is a big taboo. Being a fearless visual artist, I not only accept the possibility that my abstract art is personally meaningless, but I embrace it.
My abstract pieces are usually the result of me doodling on a graphics program or destroying comic art that went horribly wrong. When I first started sharing them, I rarely gave any of these pieces proper titles. More often than not, I would identify them with a single word or color, followed by a series of numbers. I give them names now, but it’s not something I think about too much. These images are just games of color where I distort and abstract (read: simplify) things that I see within my line of sight. Doodles for the sheer fun of it, and I offer nothing more beyond that.
Why I Started Posting The Doodles Online
Before I started posting my Daily Doodles, I used to regard them as disposable color studies. In general, I’m not a fan of abstract art. I’ve always been kind of embarrassed by mine — even the pretty stuff . I believe that a lot of that resentment started in college. I remember how deeply unsatisfying it was to get accepted into a Juried Art Exhibit in college after I vandalized one of my worst drawings. I gave it a clever title and submitted it as a joke. The judge ignored what I considered to be a much better piece. Folks desperately wanted to buy the vandalized abstract art, but I burnt it. In retrospect, that was a huge mistake on my part.
My husband Loki convinced me to post my doodles online. He felt that what I consider to be creative lollygagging, might strike a deep chord with other individuals who are hungry for artistic expression. He hasn’t been the only one who has mentioned this and, as it turned out, he was right. People really seem to enjoy my abstract pieces.
This Is Now
Folks’ reactions and interpretations inspired by my color studies often puzzle me, yet are deeply gratifying to me. If my abstract pieces are a treasure to others, it seems rather pointless and selfish of me to deprive them of such joy. After all, artists create art with the ultimate goal of it being seen.
My comics are deeply personal extensions of me, and I consider them to be my art. They are a glimpse into things that matter to me. They tell concrete stories and I understand them. My abstract pieces and their appeal are a mystery to me. Perhaps, that’s what people like about these pieces, the fact they hold an element of the unknown within them. I share these Daily Doodles, so people have a riddle to unwrap that’s actually pretty to look that.
If you’d like enjoy my abstract art in its physical form, consider buying my Daily Doodle postcards at the VAS Littlecrow shop. Otherwise, stop by every day to enjoy my latest creations!
