SketchBooks

Book42

GLAMOUR
December 20, 2011 - February 29, 2012
12 x 18.5

Cover of sketchbook 42: olive-green board embossed with a crackle pattern, a strip of yellowed cloth tape along the stitched spine and a bent wire clip at top

Sketchbook 42, page 3: ballpoint interior — a television on a carved dresser, a figure in a patterned robe behind it, and someone sleeping under blankets in the foreground Sketchbook 42 spread: ballpoint profile studies — a face with pursed lips filling the left page, overlapping fragments of eyes, noses, lips and small hands on the right Sketchbook 42 spread: ballpoint portraits on tan paper of a sleeping woman with braided hair, eyes closed, and a baby looking down, mouth open mid-babble Sketchbook 42, page 11: ballpoint still life on tan paper — a two-liter Sprite bottle, glass mugs, eyeglasses, a crumpled wrapper, and a TV remote Sketchbook 42 spread on tan paper: ballpoint café portraits — a man's face cropped at the glasses, and a woman with an updo, round earring and choker glancing back over her shoulder Sketchbook 42, page 14: ballpoint portrait on tan paper of a woman with a ponytail seen in profile, eyes lowered, her seated body trailing off into light contour lines Sketchbook 42, page 24: pencil still life — a canning jar and a stack of magazines topped by a Glamour 'New Year's Special' issue with three laughing faces on the cover Sketchbook 42 spread: layered ballpoint and blue pencil sketches of sleepers — a face sunk into a pillow at left, a bald man asleep against his raised arm at right Sketchbook 42 spread: ballpoint Christmas stocking hung from a switch plate, a basket of dried flowers, and studies of a toddler — walking away in a dress, laughing face, sulking mouth Sketchbook 42 spread: ballpoint figures on tan paper — a dark-haired woman embracing a bald figure from behind at left, faces and a clasped arm layered over blue washes at right Sketchbook 42, page 66: watercolor and pencil of a sleeper's face resting on a yellow-washed arm, the head faint graphite, the raised forearm a wedge of gold Sketchbook 42 spread: graphite copy of a muscular bearded figure biting his knuckles, after a Sistine ignudo or slave, above a faint pencil tangle of folded limbs Sketchbook 42, page 69: small gouache of a nude with a purple headwrap crouching against a dark brown ground, seen from behind, beside faint pencil thumbnails Sketchbook 42, page 88: ballpoint domestic still life — a stereo tower and tissue box on a table, a game controller resting on a bed, snacks and a glass on a striped cloth Sketchbook 42 spread: inked fantasy landscape — a cypress and tower at left, windswept trees with ribboning branches at right, and two small girls standing beneath them Sketchbook 42 closing spread: crayon figure studies — a standing figure in hot pink, yellow and green with rainbow scribbles beside it, and a fainter second figure dissolving into color bars Sketchbook 42 spread: notes for a talk on designing from emotional experiences — The Graveyard, The Path, The Endless Forest — beside a gouache castle tower with flags and pencil portraits, with 'we draw on the dead body of the world' in red ink

42b - Rome, supplement

Sketchbook 42b: charcoal study from the cast or original of a standing classical nude — torso and legs of an Apollo, drapery falling behind the extended arm Sketchbook 42b: dark charcoal study of the Belvedere Torso from behind, the muscled back twisting above the truncated thighs against heavy hatching Sketchbook 42b: second charcoal study of the Belvedere Torso, seen from the front with the chest collapsing toward the cut thighs, a small profile sketched above Sketchbook 42b spread: soft pencil studies of sculpted horse heads in the Vatican, one bridled head in profile at right, a second head and neck emerging at left

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