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Here is this week's doodle, such as it is. I thought about not posting one this week. Last week was a bad doodle week. Nothing was interesting.
This doodle is not completely without charm. It has a looseness about it. I like the medallion that appears to be emerging from the carpet. I like that the medallions are rising from the carpet like balloons floating free.
I am a day late and a dollar short, but here I am.
This doodle has something that I think no other doodle I have done has ever had: a repeating medallion. I have always doodled repeating elements, but I thinkI have always treated medallions, half circles and fan shapes (quarter rounds) as individual units.
I also like the way I have stacked the pod/leaf shapes as well.
I am off to do a bit of gallery hopping and will report on it later.
This week's doodle is one of those long ones. Last week's doodle had a change in scale of one element, but this week's has many elements that have grown larger.
It is especially obvious if you look at the circles. Not the medallions, but the rows of circles. The circles towards the top are much smaller than the ones on the bottom. The triangles at the bottom are much stronger, a bolder graphic than before. The square shapes are bigger as well. Even the medallions themselves get bigger towards the bottom.
But, since it is me, there is one glaring exception to the rule. The wave elements are smaller at the bottom than they were at the top. Go figure.
So now we are back to the bold doodling that I think of as my "doodling style".
Can you really have a style if all you are doing is doodling? I think you can. It has to do with the way you make a line, and the subject matter.
I picked this doodle because of the change in scale in the wave motif. Usually I make them smaller, like this. I guess that the surf is up, so get out your boards.
