Phil Sutters' photos with the keyword: doodle

Just an odd collection of shapes superimposed on each other and manipulated in Photoshop Elements.

A Photoshop Elements doodle made with filters, colour gradients and layers. These abstracts are not planned, they just evolve.

A Photoshop Elements doodle made with filters, colour gradients and layers. These abstracts are not planned, they just evolve.

Four variations from the same starting point.

Four variations from the same starting point.

Four variations from the same starting point.

Four variations from the same starting point.

I have been scanning endless family photos from an album from 1893 to about 1920, to share with my sisters and cousins, but I needed a break. These two doodles started with nothing more than the pencil tool from Adobe Photoshop Elements.

I have been scanning endless family photos from an album from 1893 to about 1920, to share with my sisters and cousins, but I needed a break. These two doodles started with nothing more than the pencil tool from Adobe Photoshop Elements. An experiment in the sense that I rarely draw my own lines. I usually grab a shape and twist it about.

Perhaps this should be the other way up, as the key ingredient was the 'invert' Photoshop filter which turns black into white and colours into their complementary versions.

This reminds me a little of those string and pin sculptures that were the rage in the 1960s, I think. I call it a doodle because I start with a blank sheet, add something like a gradient or a Photoshop fractal brush, use an effect - paint daubs or poster-edges - and play around from there. It's just like sitting in a meeting or lecture and starting off with a square and building it into a fantasy castle or a complex pattern or whatever..... Whether one can do that on your tablet these days, rather than pen and paper, I don't know, but I suppose there are probably several thousand doodling 'apps' out there!