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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Tuesday, April 12, 2011

April 4, 2011

     We dug up this little (about one inch long) toy in the back yard while putting in a pump. It is some kind of metal, with no rust and no paint, and the top is yellow plastic with a fairly involved pale (faded) red plastic something up under the roof indicating something had once been attached there. It's a Mattel, but it must have been in the ground for at least 20 to 30 years given how long we've had this house and the age of the "youngster" who lived here before us. I wonder if it might have been a circus calliope.
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  1. Helen OpieApril 13, 2011 at 10:05 AM

    If it is that old, it might be lead alloy - or tin? It certainly has character! It's cute!

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