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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Friday, April 29, 2011

April 25, 2011

    This is a sketch of a clematis I did in the backyard today while the weather turned chill and grey, and the wind picked up - threatening to rain... and, partly at least, while I was talking on the phone to an artist friend. Some of my clematis aren't in bloom yet, but several are loaded with blooms and justify the old "April showers bring May flowers" rhyme.

3 comments:

  1. Wow, none of my clematis is in bloom!

    This is perfectly "illustrates" my preference for your botanical drawings, by the way.

    cp

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  2. Clematis won't bloom here for another couple of months; July, I think. Lucky you! But we do have daffodils, some tulips coming, and hyacinths right now.

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