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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Architectural sketches done during a tour of Italy by architect Charles Mackintosh, 1891, contain careful pencil studies of exteriors, and a few interiors, capitals and floor plans. Materials, and sometimes measurements and sculptures, are included in his notes.

 

Pencil.

 

Artist: Charles Rennie Mackintosh

 

The entire sketchbook

 

Source: VADS (www.vads.ac.uk), the Visual Arts Data Service, UK.

Cremona, study of exterior of Baptistery. Image© The Glasgow School of Art.
Charles Rennie Mackintosh
Glasgow, Glasgow Herald Building, perspective drawing of exterior. Image© The Glasgow School of Art.
Charles Rennie Mackintosh
Pavia, San Michele, interior, study of capital and plan. Image© The Glasgow School of Art.