New Ventures

Jeanette, Stacy and I have discussed the future for VSD. While we all enjoyed being a part of it, the time has come for us to let it go. We are all moving in new directions and need to focus on those.

So, thank you to everyone who has ever participated in the VSD! I thoroughly enjoyed it. You were all an encouragement to me. I hope you all keep drawing and enjoying yourselves.

For those who want to continue having a monthly challenge, I'd encourage you to start your own group. VSD started with a simple email and then just snowballed on its own.

Happy Sketching!

Rose

Summer Hiatus

Hello VSDers!

Jeanette, Stacy, and I have decided to take a little break for the summer. We plan for it to be a 3 month break. This should help with everyone's busy summer schedules.

We'll see you in September!

May 2009 VSD Reference

OK gang, here is the reference photo, taken by a friend of mine - her beautiful daughters at a hoedown. Remember that the goal of this group is to create something from this reference. Everyone's entry will be different - which is great, just be sure to use this photo as your starting place.

Your entry should be posted on your blog and/or on the VSD Flickr group. If you are posting your entry on Flickr please use the tag VSD_MAY2009.

What you need to know...

• After you have posted your entry on your blog, come here and enter your name and the URL for your VSD blog post into the Mr. Linky widget. Then press enter. As always, please link directly to your specific VSD post and not to your blog's main page.
• The Mr. Linky widget will be removed on the following Sunday, June 7th.
  

When you enter your information into the Mr. Linky widget, it will automatically create the link list. Please come back and check the entries of your fellow VSDers. One of the best things about VSD is the support amongst our participants.

Dates for May

Just to let everyone know, we'll be posting the reference image on Friday May 22nd (this Friday!) Then everyone will have until Sunday the 31st to post their link with the widget.

Check back on Friday!

Virtual Sketch Date April reference

Rhododendron bud

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Welcome to the April Virtual Sketch Date! This month's reference is supplied by Jeanette Jobson. This is a rhododendron bud on an ancient bush outside my window. The bud opens up into a pale lavender pink bloom and is so beautiful and never lasts long enough it seems.

Following the normal schedule, all entries are due by Saturday, April 24th and should be posted on your blog and/or on the VSD Flickr group. If you are posting your entry on Flickr please use the tag VSD_Apr2009.

What you need to know...

• The results post will be posted on Sunday, April 25th.
• After you have posted your entry on your blog, come here and enter your name and the URL for your VSD blog post into the Mr. Linky widget. Then press enter. (As always, please link directly to your specific VSD post and not to your blog's main page.)
• The Mr. Linky widget will be removed from the results page on the following Sunday, May 2nd.

When you enter your information into the Mr. Linky widget, it will automatically create the link list. Please check back here in the middle of the week if you post your result during the first couple of days.

1. DS Whitney2. Liz Steel3. Alissa4. christine pierce5. Nancy Eaton6. Lori Forester7. Debbie Later8. Kiana Fecteau9. Peggy Fonseca10. Mary Jane Muir11. Victoria Culbertson12. Elias Garcia Ortiz13. Alicia Markey14. Paulette15. Sherry Thurner16. Carolyn Pappas17. Florence Morris18. sketchbookbuttons19. sketchbookbuttons
20. Joanie Springer21. Rose Welty22. Lynn23. Cathy Bockel24. vfm425. leigh26. Ann Thompson Nemcosky27. Priti Lathia28. Leslie D' Allesandro hawes29. Jeanette Jobson30. Denise31. Rachel 32. Eileenpostlethwaite33. Eileenpostlethwaite34. Olga Wagner35. Olga Wagner36. Rhonda Bartoe Tucker37. laura starrett38. Ruth Bodycott
39. Sydney Harper40. Jennifer Rose41. Sherrie Roberts42. Karen Officer43. Nithya Swaminathan44. Mary Beth Nardy45. Sarah Michaelson46. Jonathan " Blade" Manning47. Jonathan " Blade" Manning48. Mary Ann Cleary49. Claudia50. Carol Ottaway51. ffyrebird52. Teresa W53. Ramana KV

March 2009 Virtual Sketch Date Results

Thank you everyone for taking your time to participate in this month's Virtual Sketch Date.

Please enter your name and the link to your March VSD entry in the boxes provided below. There is no need to comment after leaving your link (despite what it says in the link box). All links need to be entered by Sunday, March 29th. (Update: Entries for March are no longer being accepted. See you in April!)

Also, feel free to add your entry to the Virtual Sketch Date Flickr Group. Please remember to use the tag VSD_Mar2009.

And keep checking back so you don't miss any of the great entries.

Elias Garcia 2. Rose Welty 4. Nancy Eaton 5. sketchbookbuttons
6. Liz Steel 7. Jonathan " Blade" Manning 8. Christy
9. christine pierce 10. Sylviane Le Cann 11. Nithya Swaminathan
12. laura starrett 13. Ruth Bodycott 14. Sherrie Roberts 16. Lynn
17. Belinda Lindhardt 18. Alicia Markey 19. Alissa
20. Joanie Springer 21. Lisa 22. Anna Van Skike 23. ffyrebird
24. Miel 25. Kaushal Sapre 26. Leigh 27. Rachel 28. Ruth
29. Stacy Rowan 30. vfm4 31. Kim Saxe 32. Jeanette Jobson
33. Sydney Harper 34. Debbie Later 35. Kaushal Sapre 36. Lfwats 37. Marianne Ginsberg 38. Judybec 39. mary Tibbs

March 2009 Virtual Sketch Date Reference

This month's reference was supplied by Stacy Rowan. These birds showed up for a meal at the feeder just in time to become our subject for March. A larger version of the reference can be found here.

Following the normal schedule, all entries are due by Saturday, March 28th and should be posted on your blog and/or on the VSD Flickr group. If you are posting your entry on Flickr please use the tag VSD_Mar2009.

In a continuing effort to find the best way to provide links to each and every VSD entry, we are going to try something new this month for the results post. Several participants mentioned "Mr. Linky" as a way for each of you to enter your own links on the results page. So we decided to give it a shot.

What you need to know...

• The results post will be posted on Monday, March 23rd.
• After you have posted your entry on your blog, come here and enter your name and the URL for your VSD blog post into the Mr. Linky widget. Then press enter. (As always, please link directly to your specific VSD post and not to your blog's main page.)
• The Mr. Linky widget will be removed from the results page on Sunday, March 29th.

When you enter your information into the Mr. Linky widget, it will automatically create the link list. (Keeping our fingers crossed here.)

Please check back here in the middle of the week if you post your result during the first couple of days. If for some reason the Mr. Linky widget does not work as expected, we will update the Results post with further instructions.

Again, thank you for your patience as we experiment to find the best process for running the Virtual Sketch Date. Happy sketching!

(My apologies to all subscribers who received the post before it was completed. I was trying to start a new line of text and managed to publish the post instead. Sorry for any inconvenience it caused!)