Biology Added to the Doodling Art

I've taken the doodling art done over the past several months and added some images from a vintage biology textbook to create some fascinating juxtapositions. Here is one example. The rest can be seen by clicking on the Picasa Web Albums link to the right.

The story with these images is as follows:

I doodle absent-mindedly. Sometimes in bed, sometimes while watching television. I don't think too much about the image I'm drawing. I use fat Lyra colored pencils. I usually do the basic shapes, guided as always by colors first, then geometrical shapes. After I do the initial layout image, I may go back and enhance the colors by layering over more colors, filling in and refining the image and background. Sometimes I will add decorative detail, like the spherical shapes in this image.



At any rate, what is magical is that I put all these doodles away after the last bit of refining, thinking they were finished. Then recently, I pulled out this old biology textbook I got at the thrift store about a year ago. Combing through there for images that matched the colors of my doodles, I found some fascinating additions. Each one has it's own story to tell. What do you think?

(Remember, you can see a lot more detail by clicking on the image itself, and you can see the whole collection of 30 pieces at my Picasa Web Albums site.)