Thinking Through Paintings – Through the Sketchbook

In 1964, Jasper Johns makes notes in his sketchbook for his paintings Watchman and According to What. The sketchbook shows his planning, written thoughts, questions about art and art making, seeing, and how he questions the materials he uses.

Pen or pencil.

Artist: Jasper Johns.

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.