Category: Digital Doodles

DD50 – Wright Bicycle

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While I am in the mood of “rule breaker” I thought I would give you another Wright brother’s “Line Art” RJ’s version. I think most people who even care just a little about history know that the Wright brothers had a bicycle shop before they got interested in flight. As a matter of fact, they had several businesses before that.

This image was inspired by a photo I took in Dayton.

I haven’t given up on doing a more pure version of line art, but I have to get my first attempts out there before I finally attempt to do that.

DD53 – Aflight

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DD53

For those of you who know “line art” you will certainly tell me this is not that. Yes, I admit that I broke many rules in making the image above. But who am I if not a “rules breaker”? I did this piece a few months ago and have been reluctant to show it to you. But I finally decided

What The Heck

This image originated from a photo I took a while back at the Wright Brothers National Museum in Dayton, Ohio.

DD44 – Allergies…

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This is my rendition of what allergies are today. It just seems like many more kids today have serious allergies than they did in my youth. Tongue-in-cheek, I kinda speculate that is because kids now live in a much more sterile environment than I did as a kid..

When I was a kid, we played in the dirt several hours a week and for the most part, if you could afford it, our homes were carpeted.

I can also remember that we didn’t shy away when measles and such happened in our schools. The logic back then was if you got them in normal childhood years, they didn’t give you as much trouble as when you got them as an adult. I know that is kinda convoluted logic, but…

Peanut butter allergies? I never heard of that until I was an adult. But then again, I never heard about autism back then and now they say 4 out of 100 kids have it.

DD29 – Empty Shells

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No, the title of this post is not about me as a person. My shell is always so full it is constantly overflowing. Instead, I am talking about the image above, which is another beginning attempt at line art. I know I am not supposed to add color to line art, but something inside me just insisted I add some to this one. I don’t see any reason to obey rules that don’t make any sense to me, so making changes like this just comes naturally.

The inspiration for the image was a photo I took in a small gulf shore town in Louisiana in the Spring of 2022. During that 6,000 mile trip I was determined to partake of local oysters along the way. I always lived by the rule to only eat oysters when I am within 100 miles of a coast line. Otherwise the freshness, which is critical to a flavorful oyster, is in question. I have to say here that Gulf Coast oysters are good but just not just as flavorful as the Chesapeake Bay version.

During this trip, I did learn something about myself that I hadn’t learned before, and that is

Too many oysters too close together is not a good thing.

Here are a few pictures from that day.

DD37 – Subtle

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DD37

When I am working on finishing up my artsy projects, I am always thinking about what its title should be. I made the work above a couple of weeks ago, and for the life of me, I don’t remember why I gave it the title I did.

Maybe I was just on edge, thinking about something else. I do that somewhat frequently now. Maybe doing this art work calmed me down. Whatever, I give you my latest work entitled:

Subtle

That’s not too subtle, is it?

On a side note, I have decided to call my artsy work that comes to me from many different places, MyMindsEye. It is more complicated than doodles and often starts out from somewhere in the back of my mind instead of from a photo. That name evokes a quirky Shakespearean feeling. I like that.

DD15 – In The Dark

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This is one of the times that my artsy creations are a merger between Doodles and Outsider Art. Figuratively speaking, I am often in the dark when it comes to things social. All those rules for when it is my turn to talk, what I talk about, are totally lost on me. But, to tell you the truth, this is one of the things I really don’t care about anymore.

DD19 – A New Artsy Area.

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In 2022, I traveled almost 6,000 miles trying to more fully discover my artsy side. I visited more than 20 museums in the Southwestern and Northeastern parts of the U.S. One of the results of those trips was my 2024 “Mosaic of Life” project. Another is my currently active 2025 “Clothesline Art”. They both reside in MyArtsySide menu shown above each post.

I have been struggling to include abstract art in my repertoire. For the last six months, I have been studying several books related to the many forms of abstract art, but it seems that the more I read the murkier things become. Maybe I just need to throw away the books and trust my gut feelings!

Finally, getting to the point of this post, Doodles & Such is a new category that is now located in MyArtsySide menu along “Mosaic of Life” and “Clothesline Art”. Part of the “Such” includes abstracts. Don’t ask me which are doodles and which are abstracts, as to me the two are often indistinguishable.

Doodling is where my path to artsy originally started in 2023. But this 2025 version in Doodles & Such is more sophisticated than those early attempts. You might say some of it is almost abstract in nature. 😎