Rosalind Franklin, whose contribution to the Double Helix structure of the DNA went unrecognised.

I have depicted her looking at the X-Ray crystallographic image of DNA and the idea of a double helix forming in her mind. (The eventual winners of the Nobel Prize stole her X-Ray films and came up with the structure according to some accounts. Ref: "Double Helix" by Watson and a Biography of Rosalind Franklin by Brenda Maddox, for instance)

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Today's topic is Rosalind Franklin.

25th July was Rosalind Franklin's birthday. More about Rosalind HERE.

Google celebrates DNA scientist Rosalind Franklin's 93rd birthday with a tribute doodle. More HERE.

Thanks to Anil Jagalur for suggesting today's topic.

Happy Drawing! :)

The Tiger Man!

Big  game hunter with a large heart turned conservationist.

For every school kid lucky enough to read his stories, he would be a hero!

The gentleman from Kumaon

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Today's topic is Jim Corbett.

Today is Jim Corbett's birthday. More HERE.

A tiger is a large-hearted gentleman with boundless courage and that when he is exterminated - as exterminated he will be unless public opinion rallies to his support - India will be the poorer by having lost the finest of her fauna.
~ Jim Corbett


Tigers, except when wounded or when man-eaters, are on the whole very good-tempered...Occassionally a tiger will object to too close an approach to its cubs or to a kill that it is guarding. The objection invariably takes the form of growling, and if this does not prove effective itis followed by short rushes accompanied by terrifying roars. If these warnings are disregarded, the blame for any injury inflicted rests entirely with the intruder.
~ Jim Corbett


I had spent many nights in the jungle looking for game, but this was the first time I had ever spent a night looking for a man-eater. The length of road immediately in front of me was brilliantly lit by the moon, but to right and left the overhanging trees cast dark shadows, and when the night wind agitated the branches and the shadows moved, I saw a dozen tigers advancing on me, and bitterly regretted the impulse that had induced me to place myself at the man-eater's mercy. I lacked the courage to return to the village and admit I was too frightened to carry out my self-imposed task, and with teeth chattering, as much from fear as from cold, I sat out the long night. As the grey dawn was lighting up the snowy range which I
was facing, I rested my head on my drawn-up knees, and it was in this position my men an hour later found me fast asleep; of the tiger I had neither heard nor seen anything.
~ Jim Corbett, champawat man-eater 

Happy Drawing! :)

Orion the Hunter

'Hunt'

a character from the medical drama 'Grey's Anatomy' on TV.

he reminds me of Van Gogh

All in d Game in d hunt for US Visa!

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Today's topic is Hunter.

I've always said I want a farmer, not a hunter. Hunters go for the kill and they move on. A farmer nurtures; he watches things grow.
~ Eva Longoria

It is thought that the changeover from hunter to farmer was a slow, gradual process.
~ Stephen Gardiner

I've seen a dead body, I've seen some pretty gruesome fist fights, I've been a hunter since I was a child, though I don't anymore, I've gutted wild game.
~ George Eads

Who gets the bird, the hunter or the dog?
~ John Lewis

In reality, I don't see myself as a man hunter. In fact, when it comes to love, I am rarely the one to make the first move.
~ Carla Bruni

The masculine energy was about survival. The male was the hunter who risked his life and had to be in the fight-flight mode.
~ Deepak Chopra

Vegetarian - that's an old Indian word meaning lousy hunter.
~ Andy Rooney

Happy Drawing! :)

Save the tiger!

Stripey Royal Beasts

I had a chance to visit Ranthambore tiger reserve last december. We didn't get to see any tigers then because of it being off season for tiger spotting. But we came very close to one, we could hear a deer giving warning signals to other animals. Those few moments we waited quietly and gripped in suspense if the tiger would come face to face with us next second. As they say sometimes fantasy is better than the real thing. Hope to see it someday!

Wild tiger

Leave the wildlife alone!

Dont see them, dont hunt, 

dont capture them to eat, wear, cure illness or display in zoos.

Do not show off to your circle that you spotted/didnt spot one.

Dont even try and protect them or they will vanish for sure.

Dont enter the dense forest at all or cut down their tree-cover.

Thats what makes them WILD.

They are off limits...let me repeat OFF-LIMITS.

If you want to see them so desperately, google. 

Tiger in circus

Personally i m against this .how can we b so mean.they look good in jungles .Wht do you say

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Today's topic is Tiger.

Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
~ George Bernard Shaw

In waking a tiger, use a long stick.
~ Mao Zedong

An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.
~ Konrad Adenauer

I was a tiger, a good fighter, in good shape, but I was always nervous before boxing matches.
~ George Foreman

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
~ George Bernard Shaw

Happy Drawing! :)

feet on clay

If they make big clay items, do they 

mix and make it more malleable by using feet?

Clay pot

A clay pot..must in my house as we avoid drinking cold water from fridge 

Feet of Clay?

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Today's topic is Clay.

The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay.
~ Martin Luther

I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay.
~ Muhammad Iqbal

The earth is rocky and full of roots; it's clay, and it seems doomed and polluted, but you dig little holes for the ugly shriveled bulbs, throw in a handful of poppy seeds, and cover it all over, and you know you'll never see it again - it's death and clay and shrivel, and your hands are nicked from the rocks, your nails black with soil.
~ Anne Lamott

It is very hard for me to switch from clay to grass.
~ Marat Safin

My mom's the one I look up to for everything. I feel like I'm a lump of clay and she's moulding me into a woman.
~ Chloe Grace Moretz

One has to be able to twist and change and distort characters, play with them like clay, so everything fits together. Real people don't permit you to do that.
~ Peter Carey

I like doing clay work. It's different from drawing on a page because you have something to mold into different shapes. It's quite visual, it's a thing you can hold and feel, and that makes it different from drawing.
~ Bonnie Wright

Happy Drawing! :)

Sculpture

Anil Jagalur's entry for 'Sculpture'.

Bull in a Museum

Pencil jam session today at the Govt. Museum. 

A quick sketch before the guard threw us out.

Scam in a Sculpture?

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Today's topic is Sculpture.

Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.
~ Pablo Picasso

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
~ Joseph Addison

Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.
~ Pablo Picasso

Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.
~ Michelangelo

The skull is nature's sculpture.
~ David Bailey

Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.
~ Damien Hirst

Architecture is inhabited sculpture.
~ Constantin Brancusi

I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very physical.
~ P. J. Harvey

My sculpture is very personal; for years my subjects were family and close, close friends.
~ Gloria Swanson

Happy Drawing! :)

Friend

some best friends

My Best Friend!

One tight slap

a scene from "Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron"

their friendship (the movie too) seems very real even if it is 

just a cine version or that it was made eons ago

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Today's topic is Friend.

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
~ Albert Camus

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.
~ Robert Brault

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
~ Jim Morrison

The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.
~ Henri Nouwen

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.
~ Arnold H. Glasow  

Happy Drawing! :)

Say Cheese Dollar..........:)

In loving memeory of my dog Dollar..........he wasn't Yorkshire ofcourse but i love this breed so .....

Cheesed off

writer/ poet

Mr. Jeyakanthan smiling

(referred to a photo which he has taken with Illayaraja Sir) 

i was tempted to draw Raja sir too but that is namma Parani's territory :P

Say CHEESE pl!

Today's topic was a cake walk for me..Reason: Just yesterday I drew a cartoon on the latest SC ruling about  acid attack on women. Just changed the wordings here as I thought the cartoon is otherwise suitable for the topic CHEESE..What say?

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Today's topic is Cheese.

Right now, I'm as single as a slice of American cheese.
~ Nick Cannon

Age is not important unless you're a cheese.
~ Helen Hayes

Cheese is milk's leap towards immortality.
~ Clifton Fadiman

My idea of heaven used to be relaxing at home with a cheese plate and champagne.
~ Lea Michele

Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures.
~ M. F. K. Fisher

You're this rat in the American maze, working your way towards the cheese, which is a job.
~ Kevin Costner

I like a cheese and pickle. Nice cheese and pickle on a real old-fashioned bread. Ploughman's lunch.
~ Gary Oldman

My whole family is lactose intolerant and when we take pictures we can't say cheese.
~ Jay London

If I had to give up cheese or chocolate, I'd give up chocolate in a heartbeat.
~ Amanda Peet

What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
~ Bertolt Brecht

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
 

Happy Drawing! :)

anti-apartheid hero

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Mandela at 95

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Today's topic is Nelson Mandela.

Today is Mandela Day. More HERE and HERE.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
~ Nelson Mandela

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
~ Nelson Mandela

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
~ Nelson Mandela

Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.
~ Nelson Mandela

A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.
~ Nelson Mandela

I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.
~ Nelson Mandela

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
~ Nelson Mandela

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
~ Nelson Mandela

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.
~ Nelson Mandela 


It always seems impossible until its done.
~ Nelson Mandela
 

Happy Drawing! :)

justice

"Too good" Marshall!

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Patrick Jane

This charming fictional character has a way of getting justice done 

using observation and deduction.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mentalist

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Today's topic is Justice.

Today is International Justice Day. More HERE.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.
~ Thomas Jefferson

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
~ Abraham Lincoln

Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.
~ Mahatma Gandhi

I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against.
~ Malcolm X

Parents are not interested in justice, they're interested in peace and quiet.
~ Bill Cosby

The administration of justice is the firmest pillar of government.
~ George Washington

We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.
~ Mahatma Gandhi

Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.
~ Helen Keller
 

Happy Drawing! :)

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Rembrandt Remembered

407th birthday!

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Today's topic is Rembrandt.

15th  July was Rembrandt's birthday.

I don't think there's an illustrator who's as good as a Titian or a Rembrandt... but then, Rembrandt was a bit of an illustrator on the quiet, you know?
~ Quentin Blake

Rembrandt is so deeply mysterious that he says things for which there are no words in any language. Rembrandt is truly called a magician... that's not an easy calling.
~ Vincent van Gogh, letter to Theo van Gogh

He can blend, like no one else, reality with mystery, the bestial with the divine, the most subtle and powerful craftsmanship with the greatest, the loneliest depths of feeling that painting has ever expressed.
~ Paul Valéry,
 

Happy Drawing! :)

shield

TANK bund

Electric Guitar

Population

my computer is protected

Shield Removed?

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Today's topic is Shield.

Your spirit is the true shield.
~ Morihei Ueshiba

Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.
~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

A press card does not provide you with an invisible shield. You're flesh and blood.
~ Jessica Savitch

Humor has always been important to me. If there is a shield of faith that you can keep up against difficulties, humor is the Teflon coating.
~ Laurel Lea

The guitar was my weapon, my shield to hide behind.
~ Brian May
 

Happy Drawing! :)

Tank with Tank Top?

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Today's topic is Tank.

I'm not exaggerating when I say that the 761st was Patton's best tank unit and nobody knew about it.
~ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

No aquarium, no tank in a marine land, however spacious it may be, can begin to duplicate the conditions of the sea. And no dolphin who inhabits one of those aquariums or one of those marine lands can be considered normal.
~ Jacques Yves Cousteau 


An actor's popularity is fleeting. His success has the life expectancy of a small boy who is about to look into a gas tank with a lighted match.
~ Fred Allen

I used to have some fish, some nice little carp, but they got too big for the tank. I don't have any pets now.
~ Tom Felton

At the after-party of the Indy 500, I'm usually wearing jeans and a tank top.
~ Danica Patrick
 

Happy Drawing! :)

What a shocking performance!

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Today's topic is Electric Guitar.

I went to my friend's house one day, and he had an electric guitar he had just bought with a tiny little amp. I turned the volume up to 10 and I hit one chord, and I said, I'm in love.
~ Ace Frehley

Being 16 years old and getting an electric guitar is never going to get old. There's always going to be kids making music. There's always going to be kids in bands.
~ Dan Auerbach

As much as I love acoustic Neil Young - and I do deeply - I may be more passionate about the electric. Luckily it's not a contest, and we never have to make that choice. But Neil Young on an electric guitar - I feel like I've never seen or heard anything like it.
~ Jonathan Demme

Once I picked up an electric guitar, I lost interest in piano, and I just wanted to rock. I studied piano for so long, I got burned out on it.
~ Juliana Hatfield

 

Happy Drawing! :)

Heard of Malthusian Theory of Population?

Densel populated Flower

Can somebody help me v d name of this flower?

Booth aka Mr. Bones

i am a part of the population that ooh-aahs over this guy!

sorry, got carried away by the topic :P

More here

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Today's topic is Population.

11 July, 2013 was World Population Day. More HERE.



Instead of controlling the environment for the benefit of the population, maybe we should control the population to ensure the survival of our environment.
-- Sir David Attenborough


"The point of population stabilization is to reduce or minimize misery."
--Roger Bengston, founding board member, World Population Balance


Basically, then, there are only two kinds of solutions to the population problem. One is a "birth rate solution," in which we find ways to lower the birth rate. The other is a "death rate solution," in which ways to raise the death rate - war, famine, pestilence - find us.
-- Paul Ehrlich The Population Bomb


In the last 200 years the population of our planet has grown exponentially, at a rate of 1.9% per year. If it continued at this rate, with the population doubling every 40 years, by 2600 we would all be standing literally shoulder to shoulder.
-- Prof Stephen Hawking


"When the family is small, whatever little they have they are able to share. There is peace."
--Philip Njuguna, pastor, Nairobi, Kenya


Either a species learns to control its own population, or something like disease, famine, war, will take care of the issue."
-- Chuck Palahniuk
 

Happy Drawing! :)