SketchBooks

Book41

BELGIË/BELGIQUE
18 Aug 2011 - 17 feb 2012
25.5 x 20 cm

Cover of sketchbook 41: grey-blue board stenciled with curling vines, a moth sealed under a round window, a blue tape stripe and a Belgian lion patch

Sketchbook 41 opening spread on grey paper: attempts at painting the moon in gouache — 'clouds hiding her face' — waves in white ink, and a figure in a red-pink cloak on a dark thorned hill Sketchbook 41 spread on grey paper: a blue circle with traced hands, and portraits of grandmother in a blue headscarf, hooded mourners, roses, and publishing-platform notes below Sketchbook 41 spread: Sunset Appreciation Society notes with a lighthouse lamp drawn in ballpoint, a turreted house, and below, gouache studies of a fountain and an ultramarine stair tower with the persons of the play (Salomé) listed Sketchbook 41, page 33: ballpoint family scene — a woman with long dark hair, a toddler seen from behind, and a bearded man in glasses reclining with one socked foot forward Sketchbook 41 spread of figure-drawing sessions: pencil studies of a standing model bending forward above, quicker red ballpoint crouching and kneeling nudes below Sketchbook 41, page 43: charcoal seascape — two dark headlands flanking open water, a small buoy mid-channel, gulls scratched into a pale sky Sketchbook 41 spread: pencil and red ballpoint life-drawing studies of crouching and reclining nudes, with a handwritten list of painters — Morot, Shishkin, Carlsen, Mancini, Prud'hon, Vibert, Bonnat, Ribera Sketchbook 41 spread: a wall of ballpoint portraits from a games conference in Montréal, labeled with names — Darren Wershler, Brian Greenspan, Jim Bizzocchi, Nick Montfort, Bernard Perron — and 'I cannot draw Thomas Grip' Sketchbook 41 café spread: ballpoint sketches of a coffee cup, kettle, and a long-haired bearded man, with conference notes on Silent Hill 3, spatiality, the uncanny, and games as creative writing tools Sketchbook 41 spread: charcoal studies of noses and lips, a seated figure, perspective primitives, a red-draped column, and a blue gouache nude marked 'after Carracci' Sketchbook 41, page 92: layered ballpoint study of a seated figure with rolled sleeves, hands clasping reins or cords, with small thumbnails noting 'full scene VR view' and jump points

Bookbinding in progress: a hand steadies a cardboard book cover with a circular window cut out, exposed cords at the raw spine

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