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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Goya records the birth of his children in his Italian sketchbook from the 1770s, and baptisms with a sketch of the priest who officiates. This is along side his observations, and satirical illustrations of life in Spain.

 

Charcoal, sanguine and ink.

 

Artist: Francisco Goya

 

Museo del Prado – Exhibit with links and descriptions of work in sketchbooks by Goya.

 

Birth - Goya
Baptism - Goya