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Cover of sketchbook 43: white gessoed cloth painted with a large marbled sphere in red, gold and green, a small silver moon circle set into its lower edge Sketchbook 46 spread: orchid buds barely open, purple and green against a brown wash — 'things that are not, that cannot, but must be' — beside a chalk study of a weathered column and rooftop Cover of sketchbook 27: a cream string-tie envelope with red button closures, bordered in blue-and-orange Japanese fan paper, a faint face sketched at top Still life of small art objects on grey: a glass egg with suspended yolk, a black bird, an orange yolk, a turquoise egg, a tiny figure and a white bird pull-toy on a string Annotated guide to the Japanese social network mixi: orange navigation bars broken down row by row into kanji, kana, and English definitions Cover of sketchbook 49: dark green cloth with a pasted photograph of a granite Egyptian head on its museum pedestal Hero-machine comic cover: 'The Mighty Splintery Splinter' — a red-wrapped figure with a stick over its shoulder against a night skyline Hand-tinted Meiji-era photograph of two women and an older man gathered around a game of Go on a low board, tea things beside them Bookbinding in progress: a hand steadies a cardboard book cover with a circular window cut out, exposed cords at the raw spine Roma sketchbook: an umbrella pine in terracotta pencil with a dark inked sculpture head resting at its base Two cartoon theme-park map details: the Cobra loop coaster marked 48, and the wooden Weerwolf/Loup Garou coaster marked 6 Mac OS X Finder window titled the universe: fifty-one thumbnails of cosmological diagrams — Ptolemaic spheres, moon photos, orreries, and golden spirals Sketchbook 5: ballpoint self-portrait close-up, face filling the right of the page with lips parted, a chair and window line-drawn behind Sketchbook 45 opening: a grisaille gouache self-portrait, eyes glancing sideways under a dark fringe, facing a black brushstroke and the inscription '45, Mars Black, 13 Nov 2012' Sketchbook 43 spread: peonies in a ribbed vase in silvery graphite at left; loose pink colored-pencil peonies at right with notes on Keats, Rousseau, and looking deeper Tekken doujinshi page: a boy reads happily about Paul Phoenix's towering flattop while grandfatherly Heihachi looks on, headed So what if I'm a Paul fan! Five studio views of the Fauna head circling from front to back: the long-eared child's face, the horn bud, and the gold-filled fissures crossing the white skull Caravaggio's Judith Beheading Holofernes: Judith in white drives the sword through the roaring general's neck, blood jetting, an old maidservant waiting with the sack Cover of sketchbook 28: swirling marbled paper in sage, rust and cream, held shut by four pale elastic bands Ornate gallery with The Graveyard(?) on a flatscreen — a blue underwater scene — a woman mugging wildly for the camera while a man gazes up Poster for In the Kingdom #19: layered blackletter cascading down black — works by Auriea Harvey, baykiddead and Alex Myers, December 13 at Project Project, 1818 Vinton Diptych: looking up through an olive tree's branches at blue sky; below, a woman with dreadlocks and a smiling grey-bearded man lying in the grass New watercolor tin open on a plaid lap: two rows of half-pans from reds through blues to ochres, a water brush laid across Tale of Tales lettered on a banner amid extravagant Spencerian pen flourishes that swirl into a long-tailed bird, in black ink on cream Sketchbook 32, Mediaterra Athens, session 1 'Gaming Society': ballpoint portraits of seven speakers as busts on plinths — Julian Dibbell, Daniel Pargman in a Magic Circle trophy, and others Back cover of sketchbook 26: waxed book pages printed with dark palm fronds and crosshatched shadows, amber and sepia Sketchbook 49 spread: ballpoint choir singers of the Berliner Domkantorei mid-phrase, with a pasted ticket for Bach's Matthäuspassion at the Berliner Dom, 12 April 2014 Two Path scenes: the misty forest with the small white shrine among trunks, and the girl at a picket fence gate before the house glowing purple Sketchbook 48 spread in pink and sanguine pencil: two soft studies of portrait busts in the Louvre's shadows, notes on Marie Antoinette-era hand fans — 'it's easier to draw what you can touch' Cover of sketchbook 39: half marbled paper veined in red, half grey felt with visible stitching, a pen clipped into the top edge Illustrated chart of ten knots with handwritten labels: overhand, figure-8, reef, sheet bend, carrick bend, bowline, clove hitch, timber hitch, taut-line hitch, sheepshank Polaroid of a foot in a bright red-orange stocking and black strappy sandal, dark skirt hem swinging above speckled lino Hand holding a sketchbook: blue ink wash landscape of icy light with a small dark girl in a white dress standing at right Sketchbook 46 spread titled 'The Audience': overlapping colored-pencil studies of a group of nudes in graphite, brown and wine red — standing, crouching and turning as if watching something Body scan, 2002: a horizontal abdominal incision closed with a row of metal staples, stained gauze pads resting above it Blurred black-and-white frame: pale hands and limbs smeared in motion against darkness Roma sketchbook: a weeping face drawn in red pencil beside a Palazzo Barberini ticket dated 10/05/2006 and postcards of Canova's Pauline Borghese and Caravaggio's Narcissus Theatrical scene lit against black: a bald monk figure peers over a carved stone chest across a floor of purple tangles toward a shoji screen with a shadowed silhouette ThinkPad X201 tablet open, keyboard in the foreground; the glossy screen reflects the photographer instead of showing anything — the Eureka Maru Old mattress and new, side by side in black and white: the sagging striped one leaning, the taut white Sultan standing straight 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 Metope's radial palette, opened over the work: a ring of wedges for view, paint, glaze, texture, set, colour, tools and display, with the current tool named in the centre. Sketchbook 43 spread from a hospital room, 1 June 2012: pencil studies of the draped bedside table, IV drip lines, a faucet, and a hand cradling a heart-rate clip — 'Oh Venus, where did I go wrong?' Night photo of Kit Halsted, cigarette in mouth, leaning on a loaded Triumph motorcycle at a Manhattan curb, lit billboards down the street Sketchbook 44 spread from a private model session: pencil crouching nudes at left; at right three heads on a grey gouache ground — a pink-cheeked profile facing a bald man, a shaved nape beyond A finished dessert plate: strawberry-red smears, one strawberry crown left, spoon and fork crossed Digital charcoal studies of two Michelangelo figures: a twisting bound slave washed in yellow, and a second figure with arm raised overhead Sketchbook 46 spread: flowers in black ballpoint on the tan page — an open peony, a bud, a dark rose — continuing onto blue-white paper as chrysanthemums tinted violet, orange and a pink rose in colored pencil EarthBound ('The War Against Giygas!') running in an SNES emulator on a Nintendo DS, menu on the lower screen Early game avatar: a low-poly nude brown-skinned woman with black bobbed hair, arms at her sides, texture seams still showing, on a purple base

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