SketchBooks

Book40

#planV
2011 april 2011 - 17 Aug 2011
16 x 24.4 cm

Cover of sketchbook 40: plain dark grey woven bookcloth, worn at the corners, no title

Sketchbook 40, 'Plan V': a hand-drawn watercolor map of the Venice trip — the Grande Canal, Lido, flight numbers, hotel notes, two instant photos taped on, 'we sat here + kissed' Sketchbook 40, 'colors list! 2011': swatches of every watercolor named in script — rose madder, cobalt green, new gamboge — beside a rooted tree stump study Sketchbook 40, journal page copying Anne Carson: 'Drawing is quite, quite naked...' with notes on drawing, honesty, and modelling a hand in 3D, a wiry hand sketched above
Sketchbook 40: notes from the Theories of Beauty symposium in Leuven under a blue KASK Cinema flyer, with a pencil drawing of a woman reading beside an hourglass Sketchbook 40, Theories of Beauty continued: notes on the technological sublime and 'Beauty or the Aesthetic', with pencil portraits of speakers and audience Sketchbook 40 spread: Florence from Fiesole in the faintest watercolor — a blue hill line, green olive trees, two golden figures standing at lower left Sketchbook 40, 'Going Forth By Day': Gent to Venice by train — a blue-inked station kiosk, and sleeping passengers in faint pencil — 'every now and then it lets out a high pitched scream' Sketchbook 40, Lido 30 May: beach umbrellas in blue ballpoint, a palm frond, a yellow-lit Venetian facade with flower balconies, watercolor swatches down the edge Sketchbook 40 spread on the game that became Bientôt l'été: door-and-level diagrams, color theory notes on hue value chroma, and the Room 101 passage from Orwell copied out Sketchbook 40 spread planning the Sunset Appreciation Society game: door verbs, bookmark grids, a purple-clouded screen sketch, and lists — sunset alarms, sunset paint by numbers Sketchbook 40, IGS Cologne, Aug 15: pencil portraits of the indie games scene — Brandon Boyer, Michaël Samyn, Douglas Wilson — around the panel title 'Beyond Fun' Sketchbook 40, Köln museums spread: Roman mosaics and hairpins from the Germanicus museum, notes on Käthe Kollwitz's 'Frau mit totem Kind', and inked towers over park trees Sketchbook 40, Schloss notes: a red ribbon whipping between inked topiary and hedges, sketches of chandeliers and a fountain in a room, notes on hidden servant doors Sketchbook 40 spread: bare trees brushed in black ink before a lake, pink clouds scribbled in the sky, a carved trunk with a hollow at right

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