Ears to you: EDM Challenge #79

This week’s Every Day Matters challenge is “Draw an Ear.” I tried drawing my own, but as it turns out, my ears can’t be seen by my eyes so I had to wait for innocent victims to venture into my web. Today was the day. First Cody came over to pick up laundry he’d left in the dryer so I charged a small equipment usage fee: sit while I draw your ear. He obliged by lying down on the couch and napping with ear nicely exposed. I had time to do it in ink first and then in pencil, which worked better. Watercolor would have been even more fun, but nap time was soon over. (His are the two bottom ears.)

Tonight Michael and I went out to dinner at Saul’s Deli in North Berkeley and then we watched a movie–well he watched the movie and I watched his ear and drew it. His ear was more interesting than the movie–some bank heist/hostage thing by Spike Lee with Jodie Foster and Denzel Washington with sub texts about Nazi war loot and the evils of violent video games and racial profiling. I didn’t stay up to watch the whole thing–sleep sounded a lot more appealing than finding out whether the good guys or bad guys win. But I did feel like a winner with his ear drawing. I like how it turned out, including the little hole from where he used to wear an earring back in the day.