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Paul Mennea Hello, my name is Paul Mennea,
and I'm a doodle addict.

Drawing is the activity that most directly records my kind of inspiration and individuality. Considering the range of my drawing styles, I have experienced the qualities of more detailed drawings versus quick doodles, and I note that because of the time constraints and/or rapid gestures of the latter, they have become more simplified and linear. The challenge for my art is finding a good midpoint, where the finished drawing is solid and unmistakable in form, but still retains some of the "oomph" of the action doodle. My single pieces are in fact the product of a lifetime of practice: the actual moment of production lasts just a few seconds, constructed with very fast gestures. Drawings which take longer than two minutes cannot usually be considered gestures: inevitably, they allow the artist more time to measure and plan the drawing, or to begin to define the form with modelling. And once an artist begins measuring, erasing, shading or otherwise improving the drawing with a second pass, he or she has ceased to "˜gesture-draw', and has begun rendering. To work over a drawing, to try to polish it, is no longer practicing the ability to draw an instant impression, and it is this ability to draw with something approaching the speed of the unconscious gesture in a pure emotional analytical eye, that I most highly value.

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made one for the other

collage on vintage magazine

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sketch

collage and sketch

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Fixing Fox

2 pieces collage

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Freeze

biro sketch

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cera una volta

collage

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3 of us

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Outside the glass

sketches collage on vintage paper

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Planners

digital sketch gestures and lines

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stormy weather stormy nightmare

digiitale sketch stormy weather stormy nightmare

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me like many much very a lot the bridge

pencil sketch on paper Salvini

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runner

runner feltpen sketch

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springtime

sketch on adesive paper on a bridge pilar

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daily routine

pencil sketch

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the x debate

another debate about clima, war, refugees and more

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is she her?

is she her? biro on paper

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daily readings recall memories

digital and analogical sketch

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kisses

ballpoint sketch on paper

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CO² what?

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lamp shield FLORA 27

ballpoint pen drawing for cover lamp shield

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the answer is in the wind

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