Doodles

This is my most recent collection of doodles I completed in Pathways Art therapy class. Each one took around an hour to ninety minutes to complete. We’re talking a damn good 14 hour shift to produce the whole bunch. I’m quite proud I spent that long on an art project. I know they are not jaw-dropping or anything, but they are the only thing that stand between me being defunct and having a bash at something creative. They’re done with simple felt tip pens. I think I would have an interesting time on Photoshop Elements 6.0 with them. I think I would pull off a nice exciting book cover or two if I started enlarging them, reducing them, duplicating them, and all of the other fascinating things you can do on the program. I’ve said this before but I awfully miss that program. I have a few extra quid in the bank coffers this month; I’m thinking about buying a brand new shiny laptop to continue doing some graphic design. What do you think? Or should I vacate to a Scottish Lodge for a summer break? The last chapter of my most recent book, HEADSWAP, took place in a Scottish Lodge. I’d like to go and relive the scene in actual person. It was about a hate mobber (gang stalker: someone involved in a hate campaign), surrounded by a children’s party. The love in the room sent him off his head, because all he knew was hatred. My intention was to involve a bit of humour in the final scene of the book. I enjoyed it, it was one of the most enjoyable things I’ve ever wrote. It was inspired by a detective story in a crime anthology. Basically, everything that can go wrong does.

I might upload HEADSWAP here for you to read yourself. It takes an hour and a half to read. My pretend agent Clint from PAUSE (my local mental health drop-in centre), has left a copy in America. He read it on the plane over there. So my work is getting read in The States. That’s a lovely feeling. Where are you? Are you close by? I’m in the northwest of England, in a large town called Warrington. It’s sandwiched between Liverpool and Manchester. You’ll probably know the football teams, won’t you? They’re both very successful, the most successful teams in the whole of England actually, with 39 league titles between them. I’m a Liverpool fan myself. Their famous anthem, You’ll Never Walk Alone, was used in John Cusack’s Cell (2016) movie. It’s a decent flick, based on a King novel (Bless Stephen Forever). In the book, he torched a pit full of zombies because they were playing a bad remake of a song. Lol. Have you got any funny excuses for misbehaving?

The haunting images of me on Christmas Day last year were taken on my Niece's portable instant-print-off camera. I've just seen her actually. My little darling Rosie x