Sketch A Day 2011: teapot

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, May 22, 2011

May 19, 2011

I've been gone a few days visiting my parents' house. As in the past, I ended up drawing my daily sketch late at night after everyone turned in for the night. This time, the bedroom still held the aftermath of a tea party from my great nephew's last visit. It looked like it had been a rough party - celebrants still keeled over where they sat, crockery strewn about the place... The view is from above, hanging off the foot of the bed.

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

March 23, 2011

This is a pottery teapot I use. It has thick clay peas, leaves and I guess a pea plant flower as decorations in clay. The funny thing is, I never really thought about the flower before drawing this. Here is a teapot I really like, and yet I think I thought (I'm not even sure what I thought) it was an odd cluster of grapes, which shows that I hadn't really Looked at it until I had to draw it!