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, September 7, 2011

September 6, 2011

    Four (one opened) persimmons on a plate. Persimmons are another native fruit. They leave the inside of your mouth furry feeling until after the first frost, and I don't know if freezing them has the same de-fuzzi-feeling effect. They are usually used in preserves and cooked foods since they're mushy by the time they've frozen, but they are sweet and rich eaten raw. I'm going to try to sprout these.
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  1. Amy MannSeptember 8, 2011 at 4:11 PM

    I thought our native persimmons were so sour (or bitter?) that you couldn't eat them raw, that only the possums liked them...

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  2. EmSeptember 10, 2011 at 2:21 AM

    No no... you just have to apply the right (freezing) magic treatment.

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