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, February 18, 2011

Feb. 17th, 2011

       My mother fixes her spaghetti with sausage instead of ground meat, and I tend to like it that way... here was dinner under construction last night. Someone dripped something (like water... or dog drool?) on the paper over the left-hand sausage which had to dry before I could scan it... you can still see the buckled place. Considering the time that goes into the sketches I have begun to think I should go out and purchase a heavier weight of paper so things like this would not ruin the sketch.
Posted by at
Labels: ,

1 comment:

  1. AnonymousFebruary 19, 2011 at 9:50 PM

    When I first read this earlier today I was cooking Italian sausage. Food ESP continues....

    cp

    ReplyDelete

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)