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!

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Wednesday, April 27, 2011

April 23, 2011

     This is a simple pen drawing done as a plan for a painting at Julie Metz wetland bank park. I found the spot I want to try painting from, and I sketched the path at that point in order to try out some compositional plans. I didn't plan on changing  anything, exactly, but just by becoming aware of the value areas and shapes I think one ends up adjusting things subtly to affect composition. It relates to how difficult it is to draw something you cannot see well, even if you really are trying to simply draw it exactly the (visually incomplete) way you see it.
     Regardless, I did end up changing something:  I had felt like the lower left was lacking something, and then on the way back I found a nicely formed New Jersey Tea in bloom, so I sketched it in over top in that corner. I think I'll like the texture it will add. 
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  1. Amy MannApril 27, 2011 at 9:37 PM

    This will make a nice painting (what is a New Jersey Tea?)

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