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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Tuesday, March 15, 2011

March 12, 2011

    This stump is on the way to one of the overlooks at Leesylvania Park. It must have once had burls around the base. I stood - for too long - in order to get it from the top down (more natural) view so the sketch could include the tiny nut shells on top. I always like these little signs of someone having had a woodland picnic.

1 comment:

  1. Beautiful! And all the more since you stood there and drew it... Were the nut shells left by a human picnicker, or a squirrel, I wonder?

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