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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and don't forget to check out older posts!
wonderful "eye feel" texture! If there can be mouth feel in food writing why NOT eye feel?
ReplyDeleteMy other geode thought is why, after 60 years of walking around looking at the ground as near sighted people do, have I NEVER found one? I suspect a geode factory somewhere......
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I agree with C, good "eye feel"! And who does find Geodes around here? I always assumed they were from Out West somewhere... did you find this one, or buy it in a museum store?
ReplyDeleteAh, museum store... but there Is a walk we went on when I was a kid where you could just pick up rocks with purple crystals all over them. I think they might/must have been originally geodes which broke... if not, then veins.
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