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, May 20, 2011

May 18, 2011

    There have been two reasons not to work any further on the earlier garden sketch. One has been the weather, which has been so grey as to keep the bench wet even though it never quite rains (mists, kinda sprinkles...). The other has been the odour from the dracunculus vulgaris. It's a very cool plant, like a gigantic maroon (almost black on the 2+ foot central spathe) jack-in-the-pulpit, and adds to the tropical feel of the garden, but it attracts flies. The way it attracts flies is to smell like a mule has died in the back yard. It usually blooms for about a week, and the odour is only intense for about two days (I've experimented with ways to tone it down to no avail), but this cool damp weather has had it in bloom for closer to two weeks and while the odour hasn't peaked yet, it comes on stronger when the mist lifts somewhat. We have an approach-avoidance relationship, Dracunculus and I...
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  1. Amy MannMay 20, 2011 at 3:30 PM

    Brave of you to plant such a stinker in your garden! Nice drawing. Your nature drawings are beautiful, but also anatomically correct and clear. They really could be illustrations in a textbook.

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