Color Sketch August 26th, 2008

 One of my most basic goals for making art a part of my life is to sketch — every day.

Whether it’s a five minute gesture drawing,  throwing up a color palette that I’ve been thinking about, or throwing down the paper and forcing the pencil to do something – I will be consciously sketching for the unadulterated end of creating a sketch.

Color Sketch August 8th 2008

Lately I’ve been creating daily color sketches in Photoshop.  These take less than 5 minutes.  (Any more than that and it becomes overthought.)  The point of creating and posting these sketches daily is twofold:

  1. Exercise my crappy color (pencil, pen, composition) competence.
  2. Get over myself.

For me, inhibition is the number one reason I am not a regular practicing artist in my own life or in the greater community. Sheesh! Time to get over it, already.

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