Sketch A Day 2011: March 21, 2011

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!

Monday, March 28, 2011

March 21, 2011

Okay - so this isn't a new sketch... but I'm so far behind right now that I'm allowing myself to post the colored version of this previous drawing as a sketch for a day. I decided to try coloring this one, and in keeping with the child-like drawing, I wanted to try using crayons. I had a box of 64 I'd picked up as a whim somewhere because the colors grabbed me (no wonder kids eat these things). I knew the paper wouldn't take water color, but I decided to color it with crayon and wash over it with water color since it would resist - which it did; and beaded up nicely, which you can see if you click on the image to enlarge it. Ignore the buckles - they're from the paper being for sketching and not water media. I'll plan ahead better next time, but an experiment is an experiment and play is just that!