Pretty hair

Pretty girls

Hello! Happy 4th of July to folks who celebrate that kind of thing, and happy Saturday to those who don’t care.

This is a picture inspired by the very first piece in our MUS120A anthology, the Epitaph of Seikolos, one of less than 50 Greek musical pieces that have been found, and one of the more complete ones. Can you believe it was on two little pillars and some idiot filed off the bottom of one at some point so they would be the same height? No, I can’t either. Some people are just ignorant jerks.

Anyway, I really like the piece; it’s really pretty on the CD, even if we don’t know exactly how it was performed, so I drew a picture of a girl singing it. Maybe someone she knows just died and this is the song that was written for them. Perspective is awful on the lutist, but I like the dresses. And there’s some sort of background.

The upper head was drawn on the top margin of my linguistics notes. It’s actually better than the full drawing, but that always happens. I’m still pretty content with the big drawing.

Went for a short run this morning. Am somehow 5 pounds lighter than last night but felt slower. It’s very mysterious.