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.
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.
A Girtonian black squirrel, a decorated Venetian mask, a fabulous looking gent, broken hearts and an unfurling fern.
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.
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.
The rare moments where coloured pens have made it with me to the lecture theatre -check out those lava fountains!!!!
Definitely courageous.
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.
'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.
