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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Sketching from the Streets
A beggar on Passeo del Prado, Madrid; man seated bent forward in profile to right with head in hands, shopping trolley r. 5 May 1991 Graphite on stiff wove paper taken from a sketchbook. 2004,0929.64,. AN414460. Image source: British Museum. Dept. of Prints and Drawings.

 

 

 

Drawing directly from people on the street, family, and friends, this artist leaves his successful career as an abstract painter out of frustration. His new practice transfers to other media as well, pastel, print, and ink. When he returns to painting, no preliminary drawings are done. He starts and finishes a painting or pastel drawing in one sitting. 1960s onward.

 

Graphite on stiff wove paper and rag paper.

 

Artist: Avigdor Arikha.

Sketching from the Streets
A disabled man in a wheelchair; whole-length geriatric man in a wheelchair in profile to l, tube from nose. 6 June 1994 Graphite on stiff wove paper from a sketchbook. 2004,0929.70, AN414469. Image source: British Museum. Dept. of Prints and Drawings.
Sketching from the Streets
Saxophonist on Rue Mouffetard; musician playing seated in profile to l, shopping bags surrounding. 25 February 1990 Graphite on rag paper from a sketchbook. 2004,0929.57, AN414412. Image source: British Museum. Dept. of Prints and Drawings.