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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Image © the Artist and family. Image source: Scott Rothstein. Used with permission.
Image © the Artist and family. Image source: Scott Rothstein. Used with permission.

Families of artists pass sketchbooks onto the next generation in the town of Nathadwara, Rajasthan, India. Artists’ notes fill the books with drawings on both sides of one sheet of paper and overlap with ideas. Sons and daughters work in the family workshop to learn painting skills from family members. The finished paintings depict scenes from the life of Krishna.

 

Contemporary.

 

Pencil, gouache, and ink.

 

Artists: From Nathadwara a small town in India.

 

See the book, The Artists of Nathadwara: The practice of painting in Rajasthan, Trina Lyons, (google preview).

 

See more sketches at Art Found Out blog.