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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Saturday, July 2, 2011

July 2, 2011

    I spent my available sketch time today painting on a portrait. I should be able to post it as my sketch a day (especially since I am doing the face portion a la grisaille which ties in with sketching in a black and white and grey sort of way, don't you think?), but I have decided against posting it in all of the in-between stages since the subject peeks at this blog! That means I'm only going to post this tiny section, which I think keeps within both the spirit and the letter of sketch a dayness, but without revealing too much of the portrait plan too soon... 
    This is oil paint, by the way, thinned a bit with linseed oil, and is shining because it is still wet and I took the photo this evening (so with flash) and very close rather than mess with cropping. I'll still be able to work this tomorrow morning.
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  1. Amy MannJuly 3, 2011 at 5:30 PM

    Nice, Em! It's kind of cool cropped like this, too...

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