Welcome to a new sub category of MyArtsySide. It is called Outsider Art. The term was invented by french artist Jean Dubuffet in 1948. Here is a little about how he describes it:

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Those works created from solitude and from pure and authentic creative impulses – where the worries of competition, acclaim and social promotion do not interfere – are, because of these very facts, more precious than the productions of professionals. After a certain familiarity with these flourishings of an exalted feverishness, lived so fully and so intensely by their authors, we cannot avoid the feeling that in relation to these works, cultural art in its entirety appears to be the game of a futile society, a fallacious parade.

— Jean Dubuffet

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Here is a little more of how Wikipedia describes Outsider Art:

Outsider Art is art made by self-taught individuals who are untrained and untutored in the traditional arts, with typically little or no contact with the conventions of the art worlds.

– Wikipedia

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As the text in the graphic above says, my Outsider Art breaks all the rules of art, as I don’t even know what rules exist. Nothing I do here on RJsCorner is about worries of competition, acclaim and social promotion. I gave up a long time ago trying to figure out what social promotion is even about. That is what makes RJsCorner uniquely me. Almost everything I have accomplished in my life has been self-taught.

I have been enjoying my travels through doodles, and I suspect that my early art in this new sub-category will evolve from those exercises. But, I’m also sure, it will eventually take on shape, form, tone and texture of its own.