“Hope is the thing with feathe…
“Hope is the thing with feathers/ That perches in the soul/ And sings the song without the words/ And never stops at all.” – Emily Dickinson #blindcontours
A blind contour is a drawing exercise done with the artist attempting to not look at the paper. Every evening I do an image search of a subject and research a quote, and then try to draw them in as few lines as possible without glancing down. I meet with varying levels of success, both with the recognizability of the subjects, and my ability to resist looking at the drawing pad!
“Hope is the thing with feathers/ That perches in the soul/ And sings the song without the words/ And never stops at all.” – Emily Dickinson #blindcontours
“Listen; there’s a hell of a good universe next door: let’s go.” – e. e. cummings #blindcontours
Something new: I was inspired to blind contour illustrate this quote by Joy Harjo, the new US poet laureate. “The heart is the smaller cousin of the sun.” #blindcontours
“I am not nearly so interested in what monkey man was derived from as I am in what kind of monkey he is to become.” – Loren Eiseley #blindcontours
“The monkey is an organized sarcasm upon the human race.” – Henry Ward Beecher #blindcontours
“The higher the monkey climb, the more his tail does expose.” – Bahamian proverb #blindcontours .
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I just want to note here that spider monkeys are kinda creepy looking and not at all easy to draw in blind contour! They don’t look real in actual photos 😳 that’s my excuse 😂
“The problem is to keep the monkey mind from running into all kinds of thoughts.” – Lee Kuan Yew #blindcontours
“I learned the way a monkey learns – by watching its parents.” – Prince Charles #blindcontours
“If you had a million Shakespeares, could they write like a monkey?” – Steven Wright #blindcontours
“Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.” – Malcolm de Chazal #blindcontours
“Mirror that lies, mirror that lies, that can’t be me in the gorilla disguise.” – Jimmy Buffett #blindcontours