CranberryCloud Laurel Martin

I used to be very intimidated by blank pages, especially if the diary was a beautiful book.  When I was little, I tried so hard to have the neatest printing.  Those diaries are hilarious now, mostly because my spelling was so terrible.  Never mind, the printing was quite passable.  When I got a little older, I filled pages and pages with lists of everything I did and everywhere I went.  Those diaries are incredibly boring!  As a teen, I thought I'd better spice up my diaries with more emotional content.  My diaries became seething raging journals of teen angst.  EEK!  I threw them out!  Now I just keep doodle journals; little 4 by 6 inch books that I doodle away in.  Sometimes I write down strange or funny things that I hear.  I actually enjoy looking back at my doodle journals without embarrassment.  They are fun and relaxing and they give me great art ideas.

The picture above is a watercolor which has been "cartoonified" with GIMP.  I do love GIMP!  Below are some random pages from my doodle diary.  They'll enlarge if you click them.