Decided to wear my bear claw earrings into the bloody fray of finals week as a badge of my unwavering courage and intensity.
I FOUND A NEW MUG IN OUR CUPBOARD OH MY GOD
a quick self portrait sketchish thing because boredom.
sigh, I wish the quality of these scans would work out better.
quick sketch. thought I’d try out some male anatomy, haven’t done that before…so why not start with faces!
The reason death sticks so closely to life isn’t biological necessity—-it’s envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but a passing shadow of a cloud.
—~Life of Pi
Had an art adventure today with my cousin! colored and painted four posters I got for Christmas and Emma painted the moose! I think he’s adorable.
Another Christmas present I made for Caroline Rose! It’s supposed to be a space nebula, but I was lazy and made it without really using any references sooo…
A Christmas present I made yesterday for a friend of mine!
My contribution to our hall Christmas decorating theme! Had to draw this up on my whiteboard 15 min before orchestra practice so it’s kinda rough but oh well.
Everything in any way beautiful has its beauty of itself, inherent and self-sufficient: praise is not part of it. At any rate, praise does not make anything better or worse. This applies even to the popular conception of beauty, as in material things or works or art. So does the truly beautiful need anything beyond itself? No more than law, no more than truth, no more than kindness or integrity. Which of these things derives its beauty from praise, or withers under criticism? Does an emerald lose its value if it is not praised? And what of gold, ivory, purple, a lyre, a dagger, a flower, a bush?
—An amazing quote on the perception of beauty and self-image. And said by who? Marcus Aurelius….yeah…this dude lived like 2,000 years ago. Freaking beautiful.
