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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Wednesday, July 6, 2011

July 6, 2011

      The river went down some... not quite as much as yesterday, but I was done with the lower section anyway so that was alright. I dragged my plastic chair out and finished up the tangle of vegetation, the far shoreline and the sky, tweeked the water and that's it! 
      As for the sky, I added the faintest bit of white water color just along the edge of the clouds, which were particularly challenging with just graphite because they were dictated by where the water had dampened the paper and something (my arm?) had crumpled the corner.
      Right next to where I had my seat, someone had written in a large square cement slab (probably from the foundation of an old barn that had been near this location):  "July 25, 1927" so perhaps that's when it was built. 
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  1. AnonymousJuly 7, 2011 at 2:45 PM

    This is so evocative of our visit to MS......I know I said that before, but the beach was such a great feature to walk along. And the far shoreline was just see-able enough but still mysterious, like this. SO can you salvage the stone slab?

    cp

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  2. Amy MannJuly 7, 2011 at 3:27 PM

    This is VERY beautiful, and worthy of framing! What is the size?

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  3. EmJuly 7, 2011 at 9:02 PM

    Thank you. Not big... 9 x 12"... I'm a slow worker. The slab is concrete and it's way too big to cart up, off or even budge. At first we thought it might be stone, in which case it would be a grave marker. Along the rivers in the south they sometime mistook where the river might wander next and graves and stones were swept off as the rivers rose and fell and changed course around harder bits in the land. The same thing happens on islands along the coastline.

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