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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Sunday, August 7, 2011

August 1, 2011

    This sketch of the interior of Captain Kidd's in Woods Hole was done from the corner booth. There was a local band in the far back corner and a palm and pirate mural on the wall. 
    Someone had told us the Kidd had been written into Herman Melville's Moby Dick, but Wikipedia says the Kidd has been around for (only!) 100 years, while the novel was written over 50 years before that, so it would have been a neat trick...  

     
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  1. AnonymousAugust 8, 2011 at 5:42 AM

    Well, its SO PAINFUL to consider a reread of "Moby DIck" that we shall probably never know for sure. Perhaps at this point I might be better placed to appreciate the great novel-ness of it all, but I'm not going to find out. Dumb thing to assign to highschool kids, I always wonder if such assignments aren't intended to discourage reading for pleasure?

    Nice atmospheric picture, however..

    cp

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  2. Amy MannAugust 8, 2011 at 7:12 PM

    I have started, but failed to finish, Moby Dick. This is a nice drawing!

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