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 8, 2011

July 8, 2011

      Color... at least some colors... mainly tomato colors. I decided not to finish the little cherry tomatoes today when it started to look like rain. It's not important to have them be exactly the same bunch of cherry tomatoes since they all seem to grow in bunches with about the same configuration and I can move any bunch about to get the same angle on each one. 
      The squirrels have been seen carrying whole (though not the largest) tomatoes up into the trees. As I sat on the bench drawing this, I heard the scrabble of tiny toe nails behind me and when I turned there was a young squirrel just out of reaching distance - but surprisingly close - on the trunk of a tree. Did he/she really think it could steal the tomatoes from me? I made a point of placing several tomatoes with bad spots at the base of the tree later as an apology for being stingy with these...
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  1. AnonymousJuly 8, 2011 at 10:46 PM

    So many people neglect these little courtesies like apologizing to squirrels.....love the wood grain bench texture & contrast with the smooth tomatoes.

    cp

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  2. Amy MannJuly 8, 2011 at 11:01 PM

    Yes, great wood texture... love the rusty nail heads. Are you back home now?

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