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, February 16, 2011

Feb. 16th, 2011

    This is a chess set made of malachite and some sort of white stone. Between trying to depict marbled three-dimensional pieces on a flat marbled background, with shadows, this drawing was well on the way to being another one of those rather miserable "what the heck was I thinking!?", and "what have I gotten myself into?!" sketches when "it" (seemingly independent of me!) started "working out" more nicely and I could just relax and enjoy playing with the wild stone patterns. Once I hit that point, it was pure Fun!
      I have a painting where I simply played with the foam on the waves and it was much the same kind of thing; abstract pattern play within a work of realism, and I enjoyed it immensely! In fact, I think I will post it here for the time being to show what I mean, although it isn't a Sketch A Day! Where it is currently posted, it cannot be blown up, and I wanted to show the silly, goofy, playful detail. I can always replace it with a link when that web site allows a bit more magnification, so please forgive my departure from the Sketching post! 
     Move in and look at the white foam and you'll see I just had a grand old time playing with the wiggles! Hopefully I'll find more opportunities in the future to play while I work...
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  1. Amy MannFebruary 16, 2011 at 3:02 PM

    Pure Fun after misery! I think that just about describes the art-making experience! --And I love the wave painting. I would never have the patience to do the foam. Brava!

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