Mapping Words

A register of sketchbooks, and of the practice of drawing on the spot.

Section 04 of 07

Sketchbooks

The object itself. 3 entries.

Ink and wash sketch of Zeuxis painting Helen surrounded by nude female models04
Colour names, times and places written beside the marks — a retrieval system, not a caption.Photo: Drawing, Page of a sketchbook; Zeuxis painting Helen; Studies of figures, ca. 1590 (CH 18118013) · Wikimedia Commons

Named in this section

Gabriel Campanario

Founded Urban Sketchers, 2007

Set one condition on the practice — the drawing is made on location — and a private habit became a documented worldwide one.

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