SketchBooks

Book0

1987-1988
8.5x11 in.

Cover of the earliest sketchbook, mustard yellow and dense with ink doodles: 'RIEA!', 'UTILITY SKETCHBOOK', Japanese characters, spirals, faces, 1989

Sketchbook drawing of a seagull in pencil and crayon, grey wings and orange beak, red legs, faint clouds sketched above Sketchbook fantasy drawing in colored pencil: a pale long-haired figure raising a sword before a sea with a tall ship, a huge face dreaming in the sunset sky Sketchbook drawing of heaven and hell: a bowed figure in black on brown earth, flames at their feet, while a distant figure exults under a cross and red sun Sketchbook pencil portrait of a young man in vest and shirt looking down, arms crossed at the wrists, signed in cursive 'Love Truitt'Sketchbook pencil drawing of an embrace: her hands buried in his hair as he leans into her shoulder, faces hidden Sketchbook spread in blue ballpoint: a large portrait of Martin Luther King Jr. speaking at right, smaller faces, a crown and 'KING' sketches at left Sketchbook page in faint pencil: a domed high church on a cliff above the sea, with ruled text beginning 'The high church of Oorcon looms massively...' Sketchbook ballpoint portrait of a laughing boy in an open jacket, eyes squeezed shut, a flame-like doodle rising beside his shoulder Sketchbook ballpoint page: a big-haired figure gazing sideways, an ear study, a diagram of arrows around a circle, and a small drawing of a girl in a room

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