Sketch A Day 2011: August 7, 2011

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!

Friday, August 12, 2011

August 7, 2011

This is a beach scape from two photos taken at Gay Head beach on Martha's Vineyard. Some fellow was porpoising about in the water right behind these stone towers someone had built on a sandy rock, and I took about eight photos trying to get one just as he burst upwards behind the towers. Of course I never did take a photo at just the right second, but I did get one as he splashed in out of the water so I combined that one with one of the towers photos to get a live human next to the humanoid stone piles. Hmm... the figure looks better when you click on him to enlarge him; otherwise it looks like he has a white stripe down his front (not that there weren't plenty of people on the beach with odd red and white markings!).