Through the Sketchbook

What has the sketchbook been in the past and what can it be today? Together this website demonstrates how sketchbooks cross disciplines, skills, cultures, gender, and class etc., to gain a better understanding.

The sketchbooks appear here not necessarily for the 'name' of the artist, but for the different thinking and seeing through the sketchbook.

This web site and all images are for education purposes only.

Visual images on this web site are copyright protected - permissions were sought and received to the best of my knowledge and ability.

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The drawings are done before, during, and after a ship journey to Australian territories in Antarctica by the artist, Nick Hutcheson. His trip involved a class room of students in Victoria, Australia, who journey with him through his web site.

 

For 8 weeks Hutcheson draws from observation, the ship, stations, the people he met, various landscapes of rock, sea ice, and mountain peaks, elephant seals, penguins, and studies of earlier explorers. Drawing South (the web site) provided his visual, and written, observations, and what his work leads to after his trip. 2008.

 

Graphite pencil, coloured pencil and felt pens. Some drawings on acrylic ground.

 

Artist: Nick Hutcheson.

The ship Aurora Australis. Image © Nick Hutcheson. Used with permission.
Davis Station seen from the ship. Image © Nick Hutcheson. Used with permission.
The hydroponic building at Mawson Station. Image © Nick Hutcheson. Used with permission.