Sketchbooks

An important part of my drawing practice is in keeping a sketchbook.

I draw wherever I can – at home, in fields, forests, by the ocean, in museums, zoos, and libraries.

A sketchbook is an intermediary place; it is neither inside your head, nor is it a completed work of art ready to be offered to the world. It is embryonic; it is a place of development where impressions and ideas can be gathered and visual ideas can grow.

A sketchbooks is like a bundle that you open and add to by drawing something you have seen or imagined - perhaps the tracks of a bird, the pattern on the belly of a fish, the curving arc of a fern. You see, you draw, and close the book, having enriched the treasures gathered bundle of the sketchbook.

Rembra's studio (from museum sketchbooks)
Colored pencil, watercolor on paper

Vessel Studies 1(the Portugal sketchbook)
Pencil on paper

Vessel Studies 2(from the Portugal sketchbook)
Colored pencil on paper

Vessel Studies 3 (from the Portugal sketchbooks)

Atlantic coastline #1 (from the Portugal sketchbook)
Watercolor and colored pencil on paper

Atlantic coastline #2 (from the Portugal sketchbook)

Shell studies (from the Portugal sketchbook)
Pencil, colored pencil on paper

Egg studies (from the New York sketchbooks)
Pencil, colored pencil on paper

Light in the hills (from France sketchbook)
Colored pencil on paper

Fern study (from the New York sketchbooks)

Fern studies (from teh New York sketchbooks)
Charcoal, pastel on paper

Pine studies (from the New York sketchbooks)
Pencil, colored pencil on paper

Crow (from the New York sketchbooks_
Pencil, watercolor on paper

Crow (from the New York sketchbooks)
colored pencil, watercolor on paper

Carvings (from the India sketchbook)
pencil, ink on paper

Outside Jaisalmer (from the India sketchbook)
Pencil, colored pencil, watercolor, and ink on paper

Bodhisattva (from the Museum sketchbooks)
Pencil on paper

Mycenaean goddess ( from the museum sketchbooks)
Penci,l colored pencil on paper

From Mesopotamia (from the Museum sketchbooks)
pencil, watercolor, colored pencil, ink on paper

Cyclades dancer (From World Art sketchbooks)
Colored pencil on paper

Ancient Mediterranean (from Museum sketchbooks)
Colored pencil, watercolor on paper

Korean sculptures (from the Museum sketchbooks)
Colored pencil on paper

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