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!

Click on any of the sketches to enlarge...
and don't forget to check out older posts!

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

August 20, 2011

    Yesterday I did not make much progress on the painting I started a few days ago! I was juggling with such a terrible physical set up for painting that, as my son put it, I was "cursing the darkness" until I'd developed a headache, scrubbed off much of what I'd done, and turned in without posting my poor progress. 
     Cursing the darkness indeed - for one thing my lighting was so awful that my own hand kept casting a hard dark shadow on the exact spot I was working (and of course it Stayed with me, the dumb thing...) and the glare elsewhere was terrible. The canvas was too wobbly to be able to steady my hand. Curse! Whine!
     I set up in a different location to start off again tomorrow, although I have so many different commitments I expect to be able to devote only a small chunk of time to the paints... but it will be a more Pleasant (and less whiny) chunk of time!
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