Early Doodles... So many doodles.
So few refridgerators... Although my Dad once helped
my brother David carve out a race car for a Boyscouts "Pine Box Derby" entry,
when it came to my "doodling", he pretty much left me to my own devices
- except he did let me use his electric pencil sharpener and usually had
plenty of 8 1/2 x 11" paper I could scrounge. One time, when I was
going to do a large scale drawing for a major school art project, he suggested
that - before I started - I should produce a "rough
draft" of my best idea. I thought he said "rough graft"! He didn't tell me at the
time, but he really struggled with trying to clue me that the the word was "draft", not
"graft". He didn't want to discourage me or hurt my feelings.
Anyway, I understood the concept. He also told me that I should save
my work in a "portfolio" so that I would be able to see and appreciate
improvement over time. I think he was also trying to encourage me
to work in a consistent format; especially where the size of my
drawings were concerned. He liked to be able to three-hole punch
things so he could keep them in a binder he called "Daddy's Treasures".
It was the place things went after Mom took them down off the refridgerator
door. Over the years, he had to thin out the "Daddy's Treasures" binder
from time to time. He has since told me how difficult that was for
him as well, and admitted that he didn't always save my best work,
but saved room for some of my other doodles that were certainly less than
perfect. Maybe he thought he could use them to keep me humble later in life. I don't think he has to worry about that now, at least where my doodle art is concerned. But come to think about it, I bet he has some other items in that binder that he could hit me over the head with if I get too upitty. I suppose that's all part of being a Dad and doodling is all part of being a little girl. But that doesn't explain why I still
like to doodle? My Dad suggested that I not worry about it, because - to him - I will probably always be his little girl, "Cheri Doodles"...
Though the Seattle King
Dome is now gone (demolished early in the year 2000), I'm still here! A self portrait, circa
1991.
My "rough graft
draft" for the 1989/90 "Where Does The Sky End"
ArtTheme/Project
Just another doodle - July
1st, 1991
My finished work for "The
Sky Ends" theme... My Dad saved the 2x 3 foot
poster board in the garage for over seven years and then scanned it on
his flatbed scanner (so I'd have it for my grade school "portfolio".
