Back in 2006,
a red sketch book started a journey around the world, traveling not through the mail, but from artist to artist. The idea came from
Dice Tsutsumi and
Gérald Guerlais, two animators at
Blue Sky Studios. They compiled a list of 71 artists, personal friends and influential people they would like to have involved in their traveling sketch book. Dice and Gérald thought they could get it done in a year, but the book is now full, five years later. Another component of the project was to
auction off the completed book and 9 reproductions,
which was done in October, 2011, collecting more than 76,000 euros (100,000 US$) for
the Room to Read international library-building organization. You can browse through the past travels on
the Sketchtravel blog, view the participants by
name or
location on
Sketchtravel.tv, along with video interviews and clips with 15 of the 71 artists. There are even more videos in
Curio's Vimeo collection, and
two informative interviews with Gérald Guerlais on NoWatch.net.
[more inside]
posted by filthy light thief
on Nov 26, 2011 -
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Elphenden — elphen things from Sergei Tretiakov, 1967-2003. In between there were big cities, isolated islands, cannabis, oceans, pain and love...
posted by netbros
on Apr 23, 2009 -
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Area 56: Peeing robots, rockin' office workers, engaging panoramas, and even a few sexy girls.
posted by artifarce
on Sep 6, 2008 -
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Seeing the World Sideways: Prunella Clough. 'A private individual who chose to remain out of the limelight and yet was admired so highly by her peers, Prunella Clough, like Edward Burra, lived to paint. Her technique is masterly, her subject matter everyday in origin, her method idiosyncratic, the results atmospheric. She worked with her skill, not her ego, saying: "I like to
paint a small thing edgily." '
Online gallery
here.
posted by plep
on Mar 1, 2004 -
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Subway Passengers: Underground Portraits From Ten Cities António Jorge Gonçalves rides the subway and sketches whoever happens to sit in front of him, from New York to Lisbon to Tokyo. I find his drawings interesting because there's nothing studied or selective about them. You feel you've already seen these people.
Mathowie recently linked to another Portuguese artist's drawings -
Jorge Colombo, who designed
O Independente with me, the newspaper I founded and edited in 1987. It's a small consolation for a small country like mine that urban sketches by fellow citizens are, as of now, practically a staple here on MetaFilter...[
Flash required; download may be slow for dial-ups at busy times and, whatever you do, don't hit your browser's Back button - use only the one provided.]
posted by MiguelCardoso
on Apr 11, 2002 -
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Finally,a home for the Turner bequest : In 1856, nearly five years after Turner's death, his estate was settled by a decree in which the works found in his studio that were considered to be by his own hand were accepted by the nation as the 'Turner Bequest'. This comprises nearly 300 oil paintings and around 30,000 sketches and watercolours (including 300 sketchbooks).
All of this work is now available to view online at the Tate.
If nothing else you can get some beautiful wallpaper for your desktop.
posted by Fat Buddha
on Mar 4, 2002 -
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