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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Thursday, July 28, 2011

July 27, 2011

     I'm going to be going in a few days for a few days to Woods Hole (what a great name), so I've been busy with things I have to do before then. In the interest of keeping up my sketch a day commitment, but not spending more time than I can afford to on it, I decided to limit myself to about a half an hour. I could do a very simple sketch in 30 minutes, or I could do an installment on a more involved one. I chose to put in the first 30 minutes on a drawing I've been wanting to do, based on a photo I took of a deer skull I found by the shore and placed on a stump with vegetation arching over it almost protectively.
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  1. Amy MannJuly 28, 2011 at 7:09 PM

    I would have brought the deer skull home! I actually have four deer skulls that I bought on eBay, because I've never found one.

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  2. AnonymousJuly 29, 2011 at 5:31 AM

    Daddy and I brought a fox (I think.....) skull home found on a walk in the woods near Salem.

    Some people thought it was an odd thing to do but I thought it was beautiful and it lived in my car for several years before a mysterious disappearance......

    cp

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