Doodling in the Margins

I used to fill the margins of my high school papers with doodles—patterns, shapes, lines, whatever came out while my mind wandered somewhere else.

Doodling in the Margins takes me back to that version of myself: creating instinctively, without worrying about where it was going or whether it was any good.

Looking at this painting now, I wonder what I was daydreaming about back then. Maybe some version of the life I have now—a life filled with color, creativity, a studio of my own, paintings everywhere, and people gathering around them.

There was no grand plan.

Just little marks in the margins.

And maybe I was drawing my way here all along.

Mixed Media on Canvas

30 x 40 inches, framed in pine