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!

Click on any of the sketches to enlarge...
and don't forget to check out older posts!

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

December 4, 2011

    Here's the last of the tiny three - it's a paperweight made out of ammonite stone. Apparently, ammonites were so numerous in some places that the ocean floor piled up with their shells after they died. Some matrix material worked it's way in between and after everything got pressed into stone it became an elaborately detailed pale beige, peach, translucent grey and charcoal stone that takes a nice polish and ends up in museum gift shops.
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  1. AnonymousDecember 8, 2011 at 5:25 AM

    My earlier incarnation working with stone makes me wonder if it is soft hence the polish/carving into a shape ease....like soap stone......this is very tactile, isn't it?

    cp

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