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Fat boy with ice-cream, pen on paper, 10 x 6 cm
The fat boy, absorbed in his ice cream, or occasionally a hamburger, is a sort of Billy Bunter figure. He has appeared in my work over and over, including in some monotypes which I shall try to unearth and photograph this year.
The pleasure of doodles is related to them not mattering. They differ from grafitti, which is necessarily a public declaration. Doodling is very psychologically intimate, a way of talking to oneself.
I've found taking a doodle and trying to "improve it", either by working into it more, or by trying to make more finished drawing from an idea in a doodle is is rarely successful. You end up wih something that lacks the quality of unconscious confession, becoming stiff.
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