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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Thursday, March 10, 2011

March 8, 2011

      Three wine bottles - I took four (optimistic? pessimistic?) to our art guild board meeting, but they only drank one. The remaining three, determined to serve art, sat very still for me while I drew them for my sketch a day. In case you're wondering, the yummiest is quite cheap; Duplin's Scuppernong Blush, made in Rose Hill NC, which tastes just like scuppernong grapes... And also in case you're wondering, no - the wine had nothing to do with the left side of the right hand bottle being slightly bowed. It's just a wobble of the hand...
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  1. Amy MannMarch 12, 2011 at 10:04 PM

    Wow, we never had wine at our board meetings... maybe our guild would still be together if we had...

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