Day 197: Ballerina

"In life, as in dance, grace glides on blistered feet."

Ballerinas fascinate me. They're artists and athletes at the same time, and probably one of the most disciplines groups of people in the world. The amount of time and physical discomfort that ballerinas must put into what they do is quite amazing.

Day 196: Ballet

"Ballet is sort of a mystery to me. And I don't want to unravel that mystery."

-Robert Caro

Day 195: Clothes

"The finest clothing made is a persons' skin, but, of course, society demands something more of this."

-Mark Twain

During my three hour long calculus class today, I had a little bit of time to do some doodling. I ended up sketching a couple outfits that I wish I owned/ could pull off (and added color when I got home).

Day 194: Green Dress

"Age becomes reality when you hear someone refer to that attractive young woman standing next to the woman in the green dress, and you find that you're the one in the green dress."

Day 193: Gotye

"I guess Surrealism has a draw for me because it's an unknown world. It's a world of subconscious. Some things you can't really get your hands on very easily. Things that are kind of nebulous and they feel like they're not completely formed. You have to feel your way through that."

-Gotye

Day 192

Day 191

Once again, no access to a scanner...

Day 190: More Marilyn

"I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it."

-Marilyn Monroe

Day 189: Sunflower

"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. It's what sunflowers do."

-Helen Keller

Day 188

I hate having to blog when I don't have a scanner. Taking a picture of a 2D picture with a camera always makes it look weird and distorted.

Day 187: Valley

"Ever crag and gnarled tree and lonely valley has its own strange and graceful legend attached to it."

-Douglas Hyde

There's something about this quote that I really like. I'm not sure why; I think I just like the idea behind it.

Anyways, I finally had time to draw today, so I decided to go fully pastel, which usually takes me a bit longer.

Day 186: Lips

"Humans are the only animal that blushes, laughs, has religion, wages war. and kisses with lips. So in a way, the more you kiss with lips, the more human you are. And the more you wage war."

-Jonathan Safran Foer

4th Quarter

This is just an extra sketch from last almost a week ago. On our last day of orgo lecture, my professor had us all trace or hands holding up four fingers, symbolizing something about the 4th quarter being ours (I can't remember what that was a reference to...) and, not surprisingly, but the end of the lecture, my hand tracing turned into this. 

Day 185: Inferiority

Another super quick sketch scribbled down while studying...it'll all be over in about 24 hours, though! Assuming my brain doesn't melt before then. There's only so much organic chemistry that one brain can hold, after all!

Day 184: Happy Mother's Day!

Some quotes about mothers:

"A mother is a person who, seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people. promptly announces she never did care for pie."

Tenneva Jordan

"The phrase 'working mother' is redundant."

-Jane Sellman

"A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary."

-Dorothy Canteir Fisher

Happy Mother's Day, Mom! I love you!

Day 183: Still Studying...

"The bitterness of studying is preferable to the bitterness of ignorance."

Day 182: Finals



I hate not having time to do things well. I'd rather not do them at all. Seeing as I spent most of the day taking a final, and the rest studying for my other finals, I didn't have time for anything but this quick scribble/sketch.

Day 181: Jenny Owen Youngs

"I've been mapping it out.

I don't know what's wrong with me, but I wish that it was something else."

-Jenny Owen Youngs, "Drinking Song"

Day 180: Rain Hat

"I like it when it rains hard. It sounds like white noise everywhere, which is like silence but not empty."

-Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Can you guess how the weather's been in Davidson, NC today? I love rainy weather in the summer (even though I know it's not technically summer yet...it still feels like it)! I also really love this quote about the rain. It makes me want to read the book it's from, in fact. 

Day 179: Marilyn Again

I felt like drawing Marilyn again today, but unfortunately, I don't think it came out looking like her. Actually, I think it looks more like Michelle Williams as Marilyn in My Week with Marilyn than Marilyn herself: