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, July 1, 2011

July 30, 2011

    Today I worked a bit on a painting I'd started earlier, but not something I've posted previously so I didn't feel like posting my progress at this time. That means I still needed something - but felt I could make it something very quick - to count as my daily sketch, so I put down the constellations that should be visible in the July night sky, connected them with faint pencil lines, and used a pen to make up a new constellation:  A cook tossing pots, pans and utensils around in the air. I think most people who recognize a few of the constellations imagine completely new and different constellations up there... it's kind of like seeing things in clouds.
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  1. Amy MannJuly 1, 2011 at 6:49 PM

    I love it! It's so great! And it's true - the pictures that our constellations have often are just drawn Around the stars, and don't correspond to the shapes made by the stars - like the way you've drawn the fork around a couple of stars. Although, of course, the dipper Does look like a dipper...

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  2. AnonymousJuly 2, 2011 at 7:01 AM

    The big dipper seems to have over time looked like a dipper to lots of cultures....there must be something deeper than just our association with current constellation maps driving that.

    I always enjoy these combo observation and fantasy pictures!

    cp

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