Section 02 of 07
Materials
What survives being carried. 4 entries.
02- 02.1The pocket bookFormat decides use: a book that fits a coat pocket gets filled, and one that needs a bag gets left behind.Read →
- 02.2
Waterbrush and pansA brush with a water reservoir and a tin of dry pans is the smallest complete colour kit that works standing up.Read → - 02.3
Toned paperStarting on grey lets you work in both directions — dark line and white gouache — which is why Turner used it.Read → - 02.4
What fadesFugitive pigments and cheap paper are why some notebooks read wrongly two centuries on.Read →
Elsewhere in the register
01
On Location
Drawing where the thing is.
4 entries →03Looking
What twenty minutes buys.
4 entries →04Sketchbooks
The object itself.
3 entries →05Witness
Drawing where a camera was not welcome.
3 entries →06The Page
Composition under time pressure.
3 entries →07Collections
Where the notebooks are held.
2 entries →