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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and don't forget to check out older posts!


Monday, May 23, 2011

May 21, 2011

     It has been so grey and drizzly the last two or three weeks that even though it hasn't actually been raining most of the time in our particular little patch of the world, the seating has been so perpetually soggy that I haven't found an opportunity until now to finish the pond sketch I started (May 7 title date, May 11 post date).

2 comments:

  1. I like the way you've finished some parts, left some as contours, some as silhouetted negative shapes, some realistic, some stylized. (I love the fish!)

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  2. If we expand it a whole lot will we see mosquitos? Because they are swarming at my house.....

    Love the dark pond against the paler leaves etc....

    cp

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