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!

Sunday, April 17, 2011

April 11, 2011

    It was raining today so I dashed outside and picked these soggy dandelions. I really wanted an open yellow dandelion, but apparently they close in the rain or dim light... I never knew. Instead, I got the three other stages; a spent flower, an unopened puff and a seed head. The seed head was a bit clumpy due to the rain which gave it a different look from the earlier sketches, but by the time I got to it, it had dried out.
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  1. Amy MannApril 17, 2011 at 11:19 AM

    Your nature drawings are both beautiful as drawings, and accurate as science. You could get work as a botanical illustrator, no kidding!

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