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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Friday, June 24, 2011

June 22, 2011

    Yesterday included helping pack a truck to drive to North Carolina for a visit. By the time I got here, I was tired but determined not to get further behind on the drawings, so I selected an item from those in a china cupboard and drew it... then discovered I couldn't get an internet connection on one laptop and couldn't get an image to load on the other. Today, with help via phone from my son, I've gotten the laptop I'm used to connected, but am having to use cropped photos of my sketches for posts. Mainly, that's going to mean the images will have artifact tints from the camera, the lighting, maybe weather dependent (I like to photograph images in indirect sun when possible) etc.
    This is last night's drawing. It is a tiny ceramic elephant found on the beach of the Pamlico Sound in N.C., and it's got those biffs and dings (and out-right chunks missing) that give it character... while still retaining enough of the elephant to catch the beach-combing eye. On the other side the face is intact, but on this side the front is sheared off, leaving the whitish ceramic interior showing. The rest is glazed in a (pitted) translucent blue glaze that collected and made darker runs in the creases. I think the deal with the tail is that it's supposed to be wrapped to this side around the elephant's ample hind quarters. The figurine is hollow with a seam around it. 
    
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  1. AnonymousJune 24, 2011 at 7:59 PM

    what a fabulous beach treasure! Is it one of those little teabag box figures? Can't wait for the colorized version!

    cp

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  2. EmJune 24, 2011 at 10:00 PM

    It is just a little larger than those... but might have been some sort of in-the-product trinket. Although the tea company does that now, lots of companies used to do similar things. It would look much the same colorized - it's all blue!

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