The Blake Society
Find us on Facebook
  • Home
  • About
  • Blake Events
  • Committee
  • Exhibition Space
  • Blog

Oodles of Doodles (Part 1)

10/11/2012

2 Comments

 
Picture
When pondering what to do for this week’s blog, I flicked through the exhibition page of our lovely Blake Society website, craving inspiration.  And needless to say, I was impressed. And then I was a little depressed. The most I’ve been able to contribute to this array of art is some slightly edited holiday pictures, which can only deemed interesting by their content (Nepal) rather than any artistic skill on my part (aka none). The closest things to a painting or collage that I can produce are the intricate scribblings that are found all over my notes. 

Which gave me an idea. 

So quickly abandoning my first pile of essay pre-reading, I went off to procrastinate by finding my previous procrastinations. Pulling out my ring binder of Part IA,  I began to flick through, phone-camera poised and ready to capture any moments of creative distraction that were possibly Blake-worthy.

Picture
A Girtonian black squirrel, a decorated Venetian mask, a fabulous looking gent, broken hearts and an unfurling fern.
Picture
Whose a pretty bird then?
As a geographer, colouring pencil jokes aside, diagrams and drawings are often quite useful in our discipline and my physical notes were a lot less fraught with mustachioed men or squirrels probably because I was supposed to be drawing. However occasionally, as the doodles below demonstrate, I often go beyond the call of duty and any relation to work is just a badly used excuse.

The majority of my doodles however, appear in my human geography essay notes and the surprising intricacy of some did make me question the level of work I did last year. The scariest of all were the complex geometric designs that I discovered on sheets entitled 'Supervision Notes'. Oops.

Picture
The rare moments where coloured pens have made it with me to the lecture theatre -check out those lava fountains!!!!
Picture
Definitely courageous.
Picture
Elementary.
Checking with that oracle of all - Wikipedia - to see their definition of doodles, they described them as...
         'an unfocused drawing made while a person's attention is otherwise occupied'.
...and goes on to describe their frequent presence in school notebooks and margins. Popular doodles include geometric shapes and patterns, landscapes, fictional beings and cartoon versions of teachers (like my striking resemblance to our Methods lecturer Dr Watson*).

Further research into the doodle (instead of the much more depressing global food crises I was supposed to be researching) revealed a surprising nature to this seemingly pointless pastime, but that would be far too much for me to include in one blog post, so you will just have to wait in anticipation for this post's follow-up (aka I want to show you more of my drawings!!!). So keep your eyes peeled for the next installment where I am forced to question my alleged feminism, discuss the deep psychologies of doodling and show pictures of pretty flowers what I did draw.

Georgina Phillips

*No seriously that's her name. I'm not joking. It'll suck if she becomes a Professor. Unless she marries someone called Green. Or Dumbledore.

2 Comments
Shannon
10/13/2012 08:28:17 am

I love you.

Reply
Gabriel link
10/1/2013 02:12:42 pm

Just dropped by to say hello, so, hello mate!

Reply



Leave a Reply.

    Picture

    Author.

    The Blake Society is THE Downing College society for all arts and humanities students and anyone interested in arts-type things.

    Archives

    February 2016
    November 2015
    October 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014
    October 2014
    June 2014
    May 2014
    March 2014
    February 2014
    January 2014
    December 2013
    November 2013
    October 2013
    June 2013
    May 2013
    April 2013
    March 2013
    February 2013
    January 2013
    December 2012
    November 2012
    October 2012
    September 2012
    August 2012

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.