March 31st: Hands Across The Water

Here are some hands I sketched in painting class today. I think that the top two look like they are about to grab a cookie and the second two look like they could be conducting.

March 30th: A Different Perspective

Weekend of March 21st: Blind Contour = Scary Results

Altyn-Eye?

Sar-Ahhh!

This past weekend I got to spend some quality time with my friend Sarah and her past roommate and friend Altynai. Remember contour drawings from art class? Here are some that I did of Sarah and Altynai. Don't worry, they don't really look like this...well not on a good day, anyway (just joking guys!)

March 18th: Brand New Pair of Roller Skates

I went to Florida over spring break...Disney World to be exact. I drove back with my brother and sister-in-law and they introduced me to the song "Brand New Key" by Melanie. It's from the 70's and it's so fun! Here's a little doodle I made while it was stuck in my head.

Monday March 17th: Dodo's Conundrum

There's a song by The Shins called "Australia" which has a line that I just can't get out of my head..."Faced with the dodo's conundrum I felt like I could just fly but nothing happened every time I try." I can't quite pinpoint the exact reason why I'm so caught up on this line, but I definitely am interested in grasping it's deeper meaning.

I think that a lot of people are like the dodo bird or more specifically, like it's wing. Let's just say of the sake of saying "for the sake of" that the dodo bird still existed. Let's take it even further and say that that dodo bird could talk. One more step...and let's say that the dodo bird's wing could talk. If the dodo bird's wing could talk I'd imagine it asking questions very similar to the questions that mankind has asked throughout history: "Why am I here?" and "What is my purpose?" The dodo's wing might see other bird's wings soaring high in the sky...spanning the horizon and it might feel jealous. It looks like it should be able to serve the same purpose, but for whatever reason all that wing can do is look like a wing.

As humans I think that we tend to act a little like the dodo birds wing from time to time. Who hasn't asked why they are here or pondered their purpose? It is so easy to look around us at people who seem to have it all figured out and be envious, but there are no real answers there. Just like if the dodo bird's wing asked an eagle's wing why flight was impossible to him, we cannot figure out our true purpose by asking one another. Of course we can encourage each other to discover our purpose and point one another in the direction that we think will help them, but to know our true purpose we have to look to something greater.

Think about it...you wouldn't ask an invention what it was made for, you'd ask the inventor. In the same way, we have the privilege of asking our Creator what our purpose is. Seems like this "dodo's conundrum" doesn't have to be a permanent state of mind.

Spring Break

March 8th-16th: NO DOODLING FOR SPRING BREAK

Friday March 7th: Packing

Today I packed. My experience was something like this, although I did end up using my suitcase.

Thursday March 6th: Bathing Suit Shopping

I like to consider myself a usually cheerful person, but there are certain things in life that I have a hard time preventing from stealing my joy. One of these things happens to be bathing suit shopping. Maybe it's the process of squeezing my body like a sausage into spandex that gets my blood pressure rising or the 360 degrees of mirrors that help me catch up on the the current condition of parts of your body that are hard to see in front of a normal mirror (i.e. the back side). Whatever it is, bathing suit shopping has been something that I have grown to enjoy less and less as the years go on. Now, I'm not an old maid yet and I do like the beach, but the entire process of shopping for a bathing suit has the ability to tire me out. Today I thought that I'd capture my experience in a doodle.

Wednesday March 5th: Psalm 119:105

I like this Bible verse a lot and I really like pictographs, so why not combine the two?! Behold the result of this blessed union.

Tuesday March 4th: Smiles are contageous...especially when they orbit.

This is my first doodle-a-day and it was inspired by an empty Orbit's box on my desk. I used to have a serious in-class doodling problem...we're talking more doodles than words in my notes. Last semester I tried my best to cut back on my in-class doodling and I like to think that I improved, although I have to give a good portion of the credit to the fact that my classes last semester were harder to follow and interesting enough to make me want to take notes during them. This semester I have mostly art classes...so I like to consider my recent ventures into in-class doodling an extension of my courses.