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Sketch a day Mk 2
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I think we all differ in our thoughts about what a sketch is. For me it’s a moment in time I have recorded in my small book, it may become a pan inspure for a painting but it is always a memory.
This I did watching kids playing on a beach…somewhere. If I remember correctly some of them came and drew with me, using my paints and paper….
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Great to see the range of sketches. I think a sketch is whatever you want it to be, a few lines or almost a complete drawing/painting. Sylvia's brilliant drawing above qualifies as both a sketch AND a painting. I do a lot of 'scribble' sketches, mostly trying to visualise ideas, but just don't show them. But I guess this IS the place to show them.
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Like many of us on here I suspect, I have probably a thousand drawings (or scribbles), that will probably never see the light of day! Loose pages but mainly in my dozens of sketchbooks. Not yet up to the almost 300 sketchbooks that Turner bequeathed to the Tate on his death… a staggering number and testament to this great man, and the importance he put on the value of sketching!
I won’t be sharing them on here because they’re too rough…(well I think so), although I suspect that some would be of interest…not everything we post has to be a pristine piece of finished art does it!
But each one was meaningful at the time, and I do refer to my many sketchbooks for reference, generally when I’m constructing an oil painting in the studio - it’s amazing what little gems you can find hidden away amongst the pages!
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To be honest I don’t care what is technically a sketch or a drawing it’s what you the artist decide it is .
I like how this has opened up the discussion of what is and what isn’t and the variety of sketch’s posted from my simple line drawing of a truck to the more complete sketch of Sylvia’s .
I for one would find it interesting seeing some of the scribble more basic sketch’s that people do probably not unlike the one I posted of the Rock of Gibraltar that was a working though for a painting. I also think it would benefit a lot of people who sketch but feel it not a good enough standard to put on here , WELL IT IS SO PUT IT ON.
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I’m afraid I’m one of those who never sketches, I just don’t enjoy it, although I did draw a lot in my schooldays. Probably the nearest I get to it now are the pencil designs I do for my paintings and linocuts, but these are usually worked and reworked, so hardly a quick sketch!
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by Jenny Harris
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It drawing Jenny so it definitely fits in with my view of what we are doing, I call my pre painting layouts a basic sketch .
Interesting as we have been discussing this very think what is a sketch and what is a drawing, it interpreted different by so many people. Don’t know if we will ever get a total agreement on what is and what int a sketch and the words it’s a drawing no it’s a sketch will continue as long as people practice art .
