All artists and creative folk eventually come face-to-face with the nightmarish scenario of a blank page and no thoughts to fill it with. A solution to this lack of timely inspiration, that I came up with many years ago, is the geometric analysis doodle. Basically, you just look around, and start drawing everything you see in the room you're in. Electrical wires, lamps, dressers, stereo components...anything will do. Just get yourself drawing, and feel the pen on the page. The trick to this stream of conscious doodling, is to reduce everything down to it's basic forms, patterns, and shapes. Try to keep most of your lines straight, using only the occasional curve. It turns out to be a bit of a lesson in industrial design. With layering different shapes on top of each other, you add depth and visual interest, and produce some intriguing results.

I always thought some of these doodles would make a cool painting, transferring them over from line art, to colour fills. Though painting flat colours in hard-edged shapes, is a far-cry from something I would list as fun for me, after years of procrastination, I finally sat down and painted one.