Sketch A Day 2011: marsh

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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Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Jan. 26, 2011

This is a scene from the Julie Metz Wetlands Bank park on the road out to Leesylvania state park. This is a favorite dog walk park for us, and we often see wonderful water birds here. There is also a classic beaver lodge just off shore in this marsh.
I didn't notice when sketching that I was going to end up putting the central mound of reeds quite So central... I suppose for composition's sake I should have moved it to the side some. I also notice that on this image (which I took with a scanner), some of the lightest pencil marks - indicating the prior movements of the frozen water - do not show up. There actually is some pencil work going on in the lower left and right quadrants.