All I want to do is draw!

All of my 'spare' time has been going to drawing these past too weeks. And when I say 'all of my time' I mean..... several hours a day, during the week. Good thing all of my other classes are not all that hard this semester! Instead of doing homework or reading  assignments for my other classes, I've been watching movies and drawing. I'm at least taking a drawing class, though. Drawing 2. It's more difficult than drawing 1 (obviously), so it's only natural to spend more time practicing, right? I'm excited that I'm getting a lot better at techniques and becoming more comfortable with the material (mostly charcoal).

There's just my Chemistry class that I pretty much have everyday of the week that is bumming me out! Ever since I've started studying art I've become addicted to being more right brained. Math/science classes don't even make it to my top 10 of favorite subjects any more. Reaching into my left hemisphere has become painful and, for some concepts, very hard to reach! 

Back to my drawing class, though! We're working on self portraits. 

Here are a few sketches 

I've done...... I know, they aren't very good. 

The one on the left I drew from a photograph of myself (this one didn't turn out too bad), but the one on the right is just down right HIDEOUS! I drew it from looking at myself in the mirror! I guess what I REALLY look like is a dead person with no eyelashes and very little hair!

Outer Banks, North Carolina

I spent the week of Christmas in North Carolina instead of Myrtle Beach. That's where I thought is was.... but we really went to the Outer Banks on the North Carolina coast. Oh, well! This was just as good if not better! My Uncle Joe never spares any expense when it comes to vacations! We were all very spoiled! This picture to the right was taken at Ocracoke island (the southern tip of the strip of the islands). This is my first experience with the Atlantic Ocean! It was rather cold, however, but I didn't care! There were lots of cool shells to pick up, too!

These birds were EVERYWHERE! It was funny 'cuz when a person started to get close to them, they would start waddling away, then fly to the other side of you. Like you had an invisible bubble around you. What do you call these birds? Annoying-poop machine birds?

Our condo. Do you see 2 little people waving on the top floor? 

That's my brother

 and I. Our party had enough people to fill 2 condos. Ours had me, Jay, my dad, my Aunt Angela, Uncle Gill, Cousins Ali and Jordan. The

 other condo had my Uncle Joe, Aunt Beth,

 Beth's parents, my grandma, and my half-cousin Aiken. 

This is the Cousin-gang that went: (from left) Aiken, Jordan, me, Jay, Ali (Alex) We are at the ferry waiting to get on. This is the day we went to Ocracoke

 Island. This trip took all day... it was a long day. At least we had a kiddie car with no adults. 

The view from my room (on the 4th floor), the "suit" including a jacuzzi and king size bed! Apparently this was the 

premium spot to be (ocean fron

t view) only 2 minute walking distance to the beach. I love the beach now! 

Alex (or Ali as she goes by now, I'm used to calling her Alex), Aiken, and me on the beach right before they left (everyone else left on Christmas day but me, Jay and my dad didn't leave 'till the 27th).

Can you see the Dalphins in the water?!? There were tons of them! 

Just cruisin along by the shore! Too bad none of them actually came out of the water further than just their fins.

 Then, we all decided to played ballerina on the beach! Alex is a ballerina in Texas (she teaches kids at a dance studio) so, we all decided to join in! Jay, with is "nice line" as Alex put it.

 Aiken lifting Alex (he was the only man able to do it, from the men that were there anyway). 

And me....

The exciting thing o

f the week was when we went Hang Gliding! It was so FUN! I was only one that landed on my knees or face all 5 flights (we each got 5 tries). But that's okay! My dad wanted to buy my brother and I t-shirts so, I picked the funny t-shirt. It says "Fly Naked- Feel the wind on your cheeks" Of course my dad thought that was too inappropriate, so the comprimise to buy it was that I can only wear the shirt when I'm at home (whatever!) "Okay dad!" **wink, wink** (Left) This is the cousin clan getting suited up.

 Next, me all strapped in and ready to go! "Clear" you say when you're ready to go. You walk, jog, run and float away! 

Next is Alex flying off the dune. We didn't fly very far, but for our first time, it was pretty exciting! It was very windy, so for some of the girls in the other group they didn't even have to do anything, they just floated straight up they were so light! 1 instructor was on each side of each glider and they ran down with us to tell us what to do to fly and land properly.