Here is the slice of banana walnut bread I had for breakfast. I wanted to try to portray the different textures and densities; where it's wetter at the bottom and so on...
I moved right up over the plate and tried to draw a circle free-hand. Considering I usually have a hard time with free-hand circles, ovals and straight lines, I didn't do badly though I can see on the scan that I flattened it below the fork. I should do a day of Elements practice... how boring the "shoulds" can be!
The purpose of a sketch a day is just to do it - sketch! It doesn't matter if it is an involved sketch or if it is a simple contour or gesture drawing. There are no rules except to sketch each day.
Life parameters can dictate the time investment, but a sketch a day commitment is designed to elevate the personal priority of sketching ... to enforce sketching. Making it into a "resolution" validates the activity (invests it with a bit of a challenge even!) and defends against competing demands. The sketch a day is designed for practice - to reinforce basic skills, and to provide daily contemplation on the issues of two dimensional representation.
Several of us are doing a sketch a day, and I would enjoy hearing from anyone else who decides to join in. We share our efforts, support each other, keep each other honest and... hopefully we'll have some fun doing this!
Click on any of the sketches to enlarge...
and don't forget to check out older posts!
Life parameters can dictate the time investment, but a sketch a day commitment is designed to elevate the personal priority of sketching ... to enforce sketching. Making it into a "resolution" validates the activity (invests it with a bit of a challenge even!) and defends against competing demands. The sketch a day is designed for practice - to reinforce basic skills, and to provide daily contemplation on the issues of two dimensional representation.
Several of us are doing a sketch a day, and I would enjoy hearing from anyone else who decides to join in. We share our efforts, support each other, keep each other honest and... hopefully we'll have some fun doing this!
Click on any of the sketches to enlarge...
and don't forget to check out older posts!
Thursday, March 31, 2011
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Yummy, good job, I can taste it, and feel the texture, especially the moist, soggy part! And the crunchy nuts. Why don't we get together and I'll set up the circle- and ellipse-drawing exercise I did in my freshman year? Sometimes these torturous activities are best done with others.
ReplyDeleteExcuse me, but your sadism is showing...
ReplyDeleteI think my April 1 resolution will be to not do ANYTHING I "should" do. And to make some banana bread......
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People make April Fool's resolutions? Or is that an April Fool's joke? So confusing!
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