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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Sunday, June 5, 2011

June 1, 2011

    Being very tired, I'll end tonight's catch-up postings with this one. I probably spent the most time on it of the three posted tonight... 
    It's my favourite of the three, and only partly because I took my time with it. Partly it's simply because I am so fond of this little leather change purse. The little pink bow and playing-card heart features really make it! 
    Mainly though, it's because I am always so tickled when a sketch just serendipitously turns out to seem to have some subtle message or symbolic contrast... more so than when I deliberately attempt to include something of the sort. It just feels like a little gift! The change next to the unzipped skull was intended to "square out" the composition and provide some other circular shapes in other sizes, but during the sketching I realised I liked the many associations one could come up with around the images.  
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3 comments:

  1. Amy MannJune 5, 2011 at 7:34 PM

    This really is a great drawing. It feels just like the buttery leather it is. And the zipper! Fantastic! Everything is just perfect. I love this happy little skull purse!

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  2. AnonymousJune 5, 2011 at 9:19 PM

    amazing amazing zipper. and she looks so pleased with herself (an excellent thing to be......)

    cp

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  3. Helen OJune 6, 2011 at 8:20 AM

    Those coins also give us a sense of scale; it is a tiny thing - and so whimsical.

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