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 15, 2011

April 8, 2011

     This line of dolls and stuffed animals is sitting along the top of some bookcases in a bedroom in my parents' house. The dolls and some of the stuffed animals date back to when my sister and I were children and played with them, and some date "only" back to my own, now grown, children. For instance, the tall dog "Patches" was loved by several of my parents' grandchildren... my own kids and my siblings' kids. The Raggedy Anne and the little blonde doll on the end were my sister's. There they all still sit, lending the room a feel like a patchwork of generations of bedtime stories and tea parties.  

1 comment:

  1. How sweet! Like the movie "Toy Story" - I'm sure these toys are happy to still be seen, remembered, and appreciated. Now they're immortal...

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