“Just a sketch Not great by any stretch!
Still it’s something we all can draw at par!
All you need is a open mind then a paper!
Cross the vees and lo! You have a star!”
One of the commonest ‘doodles’ which everyone used to draw was the star! The two V and then joining them! It was a very easy one to draw and anyone could draw them!
Did you know that there is a beach where the sand grains are not only unique but they are all shaped like stars!
Intrigued!?
read on!
So in every painting competition which we used to have every other quarter the morning session was blocked!
I used to love getting the water colours since they were cheap and good and easy to use!
Many of our ‘serious’ painters had their assortments of paints like the oil colours or acrylic and what not!
They even had so many different brushes and ‘palettes’!
I used to use the one with the water colours!
Occasionally I used to paint some cartoons or sometimes it would be some ‘educational’ material till I found out that my paintings were renamed as those done by my art teacher’s son and sent to competitions!
I should feel proud that she used to select only the ‘good’ ones to put her son’s name!
Of course the moment I realised this, I stopped painting seriously and that’s that. Whatever sketch I do right now is pure practice and there is no inbuilt talent there whatsoever…
But I still remember how my friends used to finally fill the spaces with doodles! The most popular ones were the ‘star’ and if the painting was of a landscape then it would be a curved ‘v’ which would look like birds flying in the distant sky!
The stars were also used in posters and cards! Even when we had to decorate a project or art work the stars came to the rescue to fill the page! Another most popular doodle in the later years was the heart! But the star was always a star!
The best thing about it was you can make it any way you want and it will always come out well! No one cares about symmetry which is the best thing about the stars!
Now did you know that there are beaches where the sand colour is green! Well that is another blog! For now read about this amazing beach which is the rarest beach in the world!
The star sand, is both a beautiful sight and a scientific marvel. Found on the Taketomi, Hatoma, and Iriomote islands of Japan, star sand is exactly what the name implies — small, millimeter-sized pieces of sand in the shape of stars!
At first glance, the beaches look like any other. Only when you take a closer look at the beach they stand on does it become clear that this is a unique beach!
Despite the small size of the sand particles,you would have no problem seeing this incredible five-pointed star shape with the naked eye!
Unlike most beaches, the sand on Hoshizuna Beach and other surrounding Japanese beaches is made up not of rocks and minerals, but rather of the remnants of previous organisms. Each little star is the exoskeleton of small, single-celled organisms known as Foraminifera!
As the waves roll in on the beach, the water carries with it the shells and exoskeletons of these tiny organisms, constructing the unique shoreline.
This particular, star-shaped species of Foraminifera, known as Baculogypsina sphaerulata, is found only in the coral reefs of East Asia, making this special sand shape one of the rarest in the world!
Maybe if we doodle star a lot then one fine day would get to see this amazing beach of stars!
A star of a different kind of course is birthday celebrity Matthew McConaughey!
Now try to sketch a star and sleep!
Shubh Ratri!
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