doodley
English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]doodley (comparative more doodley, superlative most doodley)
- Alternative spelling of doodly.
- 1968 May 30, Sandy Darlington, “Country Joe and the Fish: An Electric Newspaper”, in Marvin Garson, Robert Novick, editors, San Francisco Express Times, volume 1, number 19, San Francisco, Calif.: The Trystero Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 6, column 1:
- There’s four songs by Chicken. Chicken reminds me of? Well, he’s a drummer and that’s groovy and he has this room full of paintings he made that are his version of Rousseau, all magical jungles and doodley patterns.
- 1971 November 14, Juliet Clough, “Little things”, in Sunday Telegraph, number 560, London: Telegraph Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, “Children’s Books” section, page 22:
- Nice doodley drawings.
- 1984, Gerard Silk, “Cultural Reconstruction, Explosion, and Reflection”, in Automobile and Culture, New York, N.Y.: Harry N. Abrams, Inc.; Los Angeles, Calif.: The Museum of Contemporary Art, →ISBN, “The Automobile in Art” section, page 123:
- [Eduardo] Paolozzi’s work is more closely aligned with the art brut style of Jean Dubuffet’s doodley drawings and scabrous-surfaced paintings and sculpture, or with Pablo Picasso’s sculptures that were constituted from common objects.
- 2005, Cathy Hopkins, Mates, Dates Guide to Life (Mates, Dates; 15)[1], London: Piccadilly Press, →ISBN:
- Thanks to Brenda Gardner, Yasemin Uçar, Jon Appleton and all the fab team at Piccadilly. To Sue Hellard for her fab doodley drawings.
- 2010, Matthew Levesque, “Using Thumbnails for Design Ideas”, in The Revolutionary Yardscape: Ideas for Repurposing Local Materials to Create Containers, Pathways, Lighting, and More, Portland, Ore.; London: Timber Press, →ISBN, chapter 4 (Walk on This), page 69, column 2:
- Make lots of little doodley drawings that give you an idea for the next little doodley thing, and soon enough you will have one little thumbnail-sized squiggley idea that your eye keeps coming back to.