Day 169: On Your Toes

"He who tip-toes cannot stand; he who strides cannot walk."

-Jean de la Bruyere

Day 168: Sitting

"Never do anything standing that you can do sitting, or anything sitting that you can do lying down."

-Chinese proverb

Day 167: House, M.D.

Some of my favorite "House-isms":

"Thing is, hope's for sissies."

"I've found that when you want to know the truth about someone, that someone is probably the last person you should ask."

"There's no I in team. There is a me though, if you jumble it up."

"Humanity is overrated."

"There is not a thin line between love and hate. There is, in fact, a Great Wall of China with armed sentries posted every 20 feet between love and hate."

Day 166: Sneaky

"A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts."

-Harold MacMillan

Yesterday's drawing...I swear I hit the publish button but apparently I did not...

Day 165: A Kiss

"A kiss with a fist is better than none."

-Florence and the Machine

I don't know why but nothing that I've been drawing has been working these last couple days. I keep starting new drawings but everying looks like garbage. Which is why I've just done boring, easy things.

Day 164: A Bicycle and a Willow

One bicycles (and other things in life): "It never gets easier, you just go faster."
-Greg LeMond

Today, I really just wanted to sketch anything but a person. Usually it's the opposite case. So, of course, I just did something overloaded with green (my favorite color)!

Day 163: Rainy Day

"I was in love with the whole world and all that lived in its rainy arms."
-Louise Erdrich

"One rainy Sunday when I was in third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered that even though I did not want to, I was reading. I have been a reader ever since."
-Beverly Cleary

"Never count your friends on sunny days for they will all be around, count your friends on rainy days when the clouds are gray, and lightning shakes the ground, it is then you painfully see the kind of friend they really are, when life delivers a sharp blow do they stay and try to heal the scar?"

I love rainy Sundays! And I love quotes about rainy Sundays. The weather here is really making me wish I had the time to curl up in some sweatpants with a good book.

Day 162: Monoliths

 "Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue it likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has."

-Randolph Bourne

I could have sworn that I hit the "publish" button before I closed the window for my post for yesterday. But obviously something went wrong because I went on this morning and it wasn't there. Oops. So the last post was done yesterday. And this is today's post, done completely in pastels. I really wanted to use some color.

Day 161

Day 160: The Way

"The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart."

-Buddah

Day 159: Another portrait

I wasn't feeling very inspired to draw anything creative today, so I just did another portrait. I realize it's boring...

Day 158: Crown of Flowers

"Earth laughs in flowers."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I'd rather have diamonds on my table than diamonds on my neck."

-Emma Goldman

"When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other."

-Chinese Proverb

"Flowers whisper 'Beauty!' to the world, even as they fade, wilt, fall."

-Dr. Sunwolf

Drawing flowers with pastels is a lot of fun! And since it's spring I figure it's the perfect time to draw a lot of them. 

Day 157: Fountain

"Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain."

-Barbara Kingsolver

Despite the fact that some of my favorite sketches are ones that I just scribble down in about 20 minutes, when I feel like I'm rushing, I'm never happy with what I draw. And Mondays are always super busy for me. And I'm not a huge fan of this sketch.

Day 156

I have a pretty busy day and just had time for a quick sketch today. I know this is boring, but it's all I have time for.

Day 155: Clown

"Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away."

-Ben Hecht

Day 154: The Dawn

"A dreamer is one who only makes his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."

-Oscar Wilde

Day 153: Braid

"You make me smile all over my face."

-Ian Hobson, age 5

My recent obsession with pastels continues...the only downside of them is that they're very messy. Messy pastels + messy person = double mess. A pretty, colorful mess, but a mess all the same. It's a good thing that the carpet of my room is a very dark color. (Also, the quote is just something I found on the internet that I thought was adorable, not by somebody I know.)

Day 152: Mime

"'I don't think...' 'Then you shouldn't talk,' said the Hatter."

-Lewis Caroll, Alice in Wonderland

Day 151

Day 150

"Contentment is the only real wealth."

-Alfred Nobel