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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Sunday, October 9, 2011

October 9, 2011

     My hand is pretty swollen today from the yellow jacket sting. I don't know why it has reacted so much, but the skin feels uncomfortably tight when I hold small objects like a pencil, so I will finish this tomorrow. I considered drawing my hand (just about every day I consider and reject several things!) but since it looks a bit like Mickey Mouse's hand, it would look fakey no matter what! 
     I had set aside some husk tomato "husks"; the kind that have been reduced to lace cages by insects, but they have been carried off by squirrels or the wind, so while I was wandering around trying to find them I ran across this peach pit. Since I was drawing it outside on a sunny day it seems a bit odd that it has three or four shadows... very alien world.
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  1. AnonymousOctober 10, 2011 at 7:42 AM

    are you soaking the hand in ice water? Did I already ask that? Really helped my hiking sore feet to soak in the cold water.....

    cp

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