Today I thought I’d share something my friend Linda once shared with me. Linda Hottel  used to doodle on her calendar while working the phones of a 9-5 job. Linda is a talented  professional artist with a wonderfully creative imagination. Combine that talent with a little work-related frustration, and the results here are just gold.

Linda’s art may be found on http://www.originalartonline.com/buyers/index/content/artwork/ArtistID/677. I asked her to tell me a little about these pieces, what she was doing, and what she was thinking when she made them. She has the following to say…

“Most of the time I was drawing whatever popped into my mind because I was on hold making collection calls (because I was the First Food representative for Accounts Receivables), sometimes the work was very frustrating (from my employers & from the customers) & sometimes I drew things out of anger at both my employers & the customers, & sometimes I drew things that I was teaching my grandsons to draw (like turning numbers into drawings).”

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