Chronologicallyours: over under sideways down

This is basically a new sketchbook
that I started just before Christmas 2020.
Apart from the first few it was geared up
by a conversation I had online with Denise Smith
concerning the direction of travel a doodle can take.

A comfortable project to take on over the festive period.

An introductory figure
who doesn't interfere with information on the right

Turn Turn Turn Turn,
Fitting lyrics for the time we are in.
First page of a new notebook.
12-12-20

12-12-20 previous sketchbook
I didn't realise that I had made this twice!

under pressure
&
as a result
side-step the issue
because the issue is the deal
&
the pressure is the weight
maybe no squiggle room

There is nothing like being conscious of the move/method that you are taking, the way that you are going to approach your flat space of reckoning.

This of course is referring to the humble art of the doodle.

Outside ~ In

Denise Smith
Tile patterns do grow by the edges.

Martin
Its funny, I'm not always aware on which practical direction I am travelling in.
This one went slowly but surely into the middle from the outside!

Denise
Organically grown with whatever movement feels natural and right at the time. It seems to be mixing right to left and left to right and right side up and upside down spirals. What were you exploring with this one?

Martin Humphries
It became right side up in the last third of the process ~ "process" was what I was exploring here I suppose.
Only to find that when I doodle ( compositionally!) I tend not to aim from the centre out.
i.e. base it around one character which is the star of the affair ~ not particularly thinking about "star beings".

Merry Christmas in all its opulence.
I know it was contrived,
but it was stimulated in a "happenstance" kind of way.

I do see them as doodles ~
not the whole plot.

The double
seems I am much looser working left to right
than the other way round.
Maybe this is the big one on which everything else must hang.
So far ~ it certainly is the one which has become the most digital
(although it could be tidied up!)

Upward in stages / layers which turn into different themes.

I have never seen it so wet
on Shipping Hill

All four corners
to the centre.

7/8ths Sun & Ground level
following correspondence & off shoots,
still sticking to a self imposed theme.

I drew it from the middle,
but it looks like
its going in from the out.

Christmas Day 2020
designed on ledges

an individual Christmas tree light

& on a square top
~ directions for continuous usage
(surface for a lap-top)

first the frame
then the picture to fit within

a constant symbolic theme I have used all my art life

Inside Out

This being the previous book which I started just before the spring lockdown but which contains many similarities to my present sketch book. Which I have included, even though they are part of a different large blog from the first lock-down.

entrance to a place to stay
January 2020

reaching out to share 17-3-20

a poppycock escapologist 18-3-20

only a drop
(but complete)

A winter sunrise in two parts

A crown for the spring 25th May


	The water divider 28th September 2020	what with drainage, there is a point on our drive where the water simply goes either left or right.	Whatever, there is a lot of it at the moment. (as of 14-2-21)