Examples of sketchbook pages to inspire students who are working on a natural forms theme in their GCSE Art sketchbooks.

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Ernst Haeckel, Acanthophracta

Wood engraving Image size: 50mm x 100mm Edition size: 20

While he waited for Paul Gauguin to join him in the Provençal city of Arles in 1888, Vincent van Gogh painted five audaciously decorative still lifes of sunflowers in simple earthenware jugs. At least two of these canvases decorated Gauguin's bedroom when he reached the city late in October, and the French painter came to admire them greatly. Always defensive about the tragic outcome of his stay, it ended with Van Gogh's self-mutilation and madness, Gauguin later claimed that the sunflower…

Peter Randell-Page I like these drawings because they seem to jump off of the page and I like how he translates these into his sculptures

sculpture made of local granite by Peter Randall Page for "The Core" building at the Eden Project

Posts about contour line written by monica

Posts about drawing written by monica