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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Childhood studies of insects and other animals.

 

“At the age of eight Beatrix Potter was already studying and recording the characteristics of a wide variety of animals, birds and insects in a home-made sketchbook. This habit of spending time observing the form and structure of living things continued throughout her childhood and into adolescence.” – from the Victoria & Albert Museum.

 

Watercolor and pencil on paper.

 

Artist: Beatrix Potter.

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Beatrix Potter, ‘Sketchbook, age 8’ © Frederick Warne & Co. 2006.
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Beatrix Potter, ‘Studies of bees and other insects’, © Frederick Warne & Co. 2006.
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Beatrix Potter, ‘Microscopic studies of a ground beetle’ © Frederick Warne & Co. 2006