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, October 14, 2011

October 13, 2011

    The last three drawings made me want to draw just shadows... the peach pit had three shadows despite one sun (reflected light, I guess), the tomatillo had a delicate lattice-work shadow and was almost as airy as a shadow itself, and the wool tassel I posted earlier today was mainly ivory but solid and it cast a very dark shadow, so the shadow had more presence, from a distance, than the tassel itself. 
    I set up a clear plastic cup (with handle) and filled it with paint brushes and placed one across the rim, put a light over it and behind it, and there are ambient lights in the room. I drew just the very bottom front edge of the cup, and the shadows it cast.

1 comment:

  1. very Zen, and I like the hint of the more substantial at the top......maybe a series of shadows, displaced air (here you could do displaced airborne dust motes.....?), perhaps that's how those one sheet of smooth color paintings got started...?

    cp

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