Sketch Book for the Artist

SARAH SIMBLET

I made this drawing (at age 8) in response to

a local bookstore's request for children to draw

their village. It shows how children usually map

large scenes in flat layers one above the other,

including all they recall about the subject.

Children are uninhibited and problems with one

element being obscured by another rarely arise.

Scale Our farmhouse was in the woods. This drawing maps

my experience and understanding of the nearby village; a

logical narrative of memories. Young children typically ignore

issues of scale when making room for important points in

their story. Note the rather large rabbits and pheasants on

the hills, which I saw from home every day.

Breamore Village, New Forest, England

1980

9 x 16 in (228 x 405 mm)

SARAH SIMBLET

GIOVANNI BATTISTA PIRANESI
Italian artist, architect, and designer Piranesi's prolific
architectural drawings, visionary and practical
understanding of ancient Rome, and theoretical
writing strongly influenced neoclassicism.

Two-point perspective Sunlight through this colonnade illuminates

a great example of two-point perspective. Lightly marked vanishing

points are located on either side of the drawing, at the top of each

lateral column base. Mark these points with your pin and follow

the converging lines of the drawing by rotating your thread.

Two Courtyards

c. 1740

51 / 2 x 83 / 8 in (141 x 212 mm)

GIOVANNI BATTISTA PIRANESI