Sketch Book for the Artist

LEONARDO DA VINCI Leonardo devised many artifacts of our modern lives, envisioning machines centuries before their making (helic ...

EARTH AND THE ELEMENTS Nature Profiles THE PROFILE OF A HORIZON is a line we immediately recognize and respond to. Whether land- ...

Scalpel-drawn This book-bound drawing was inspired by the story of a foreign butterfly wrongly introduced to Great Britain in 19 ...

EARTH AND THE ELEMENTS Charcoal CHARCOAL IS PRODUCED from wood baked slowly without exposure to air, so it chars black as oppose ...

ERASING Thickly applied charcoal quickly overcomes a plastic eraser A warm (soft and tacky) putty eraser is more effective, as i ...

Landscapes TREES ALONE OFFER MARVELOUS shapes to draw. They are also good markers of receding space, especially when making firs ...

Exploring the view In my second square I explored a simple view contrasting soft, rounded, dark trees with bright, horizontal re ...

EARTH AND THE ELEMENTS Drawing in the Round WHEN DRAWING IN THE LANDSCAPE, seek places in light shade out of the glare of the su ...

SERIES OF STUDIES This stunning ghost of a boat comes into view twice a day, when the sea recedes. When you have found your subj ...

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THIS STORM DRAWING, made on smooth, hot-pressed drawing paper (see pp.20-21) using a thin stick of willow charcoal, was made wit ...

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Notes of Force THE GREAT FLOWING TIBER RIVER has cut through Rome, shaping the city, since ancient times. On the pages of a smal ...

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Mountains SITTING IN THE SHADE of a tree on the Greek island of Antiparos, I used a dip pen and waterproof India ink with brushe ...

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Abstract Lines ADOLF WOLFLI One of the greatest masters of Art Brut. Wolfli was a Swiss draftsman, poet, writer and composer who ...

ABSTRACT LINES Process and Harmony SOMETIMES A DRAWN LINE sings on the surface of its support. Sometimes it smolders like a deep ...