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!

Thursday, March 10, 2011

March 7, 2011

   Here is a pencil sketch of four tiny cherry tomatoes (Max's Wild Cherry) and a wee little Indian bitter melon from plants in my son's window. It's going to be a long time before he can subsist on what he's growing... but it has been interesting to see whether tomatoes and bitter melons could be more than annual if not for the winter weather. The bitter melons are succumbing to scale bug, but the wild cherry is attempting to take over the window area - true to it's summer habits.
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