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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Tuesday, October 11, 2011

October 10, 2011

     For today's sketch I finished the drawing of a peach pit. I should have backed down some on the edge line at the left end of the pit, to reduce the outline there, but I'm too darned tired so I won't... 
     Last night I snuggled down in a bed where the antique style of real metal springs make the mattress feel like jello, under an old quilt between open windows with a breeze rustling the leaves of a huge old oak branch stretching out over the roof. The particularly close roof... the kind of room where the edges of the ceiling slope so the room can be Particularly close up under the roof. The roof where the Golf Ball sized Acorns that Blam against it every five minutes then roll blumbeda blumbeda blumbeda down to the edge sound like you are under fire from crazy squirrel cannons and they just might break through... 
     I was extra tired today. I'm going to get a bit more sleep tonight, back home, where horns and sirens are the loudest things going on at night. 
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  1. Amy MannOctober 11, 2011 at 7:37 PM

    This drawing turned out great! I wish I had known you had Golf Ball sized Acorns - I would have asked you to bring me back some for my A painting. I've been looking around, but haven't found any good ones...

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