"Susan White is constantly sketching from everyday life and it is from the many sketchbooks that she first extracts the material for her compositions." (A. Wernig, Munich, 1980)

The artist works in a variety of drawing media: pen and ink, ballpoint, brush, crayon, chalk, pastel, conté, and charcoal. Recently she has developed mixed media techniques in silverpoint and goldpoint.

"Capturing the essence in line alone is for me the purest form of expression."

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"Susan White is constantly sketching from everyday life and it is from the many sketchbooks that she first extracts the material for her compositions." (A. Wernig, Munich, 1980)

The artist works in a variety of drawing media: pen and ink, ballpoint, brush, crayon, chalk, pastel, conté, and charcoal. Recently she has developed mixed media techniques in silverpoint and goldpoint.

"Capturing the essence in line alone is for me the purest form of expression."

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THEME: Anatomy
Anatomy
57 Works to view Back
57 Works to view Back

Anatomy: Artworks drawn in the university laboratory from embalmed human dissections (specimens) and from plastinations of human specimens. Anatomical analysis of works by the Masters Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and Rodin.
  • Fetal Skeleton, 2005
    pen
    36 x 28 cm
  • Right Hand: Studies of Gripping Action, 2003
    pastel
    30 x 42 cm
  • Anatomy of Rodin's Andromeda: pelvis, sacrum and coccyx, 2002
    wash and liquid paper
    30 x 20 cm
  • Head and Upper Torso Bisected (both halves, external and internal aspects), 2001
    pencil and conté
    29.5 x 42 cm
  • Upper Limb and Shoulder (left, posterior view): muscles, tendons, fascia, 2001
    pastel
    29.5 x 42 cm
  • Sole of Left Foot and Ankle (left, inferior view), 2001
    brown and black pen
    22 x 27 cm
    (published in Draw Like Da Vinci, 2006)
  • Head and shoulder, abducted arm (left side, superior view), 2001
    pen
    42 x 29.5 cm
  • Mother and Son / Skeletons of adult and child contrasted , 2001
    pastel and conté
    42 x 29.5 cm
  • Dissected Legs / Legs and feet: muscles, fascia, Achilles tendons, 2001
    pastel and conté
    30 x 42 cm
    (published in Draw Like Da Vinci, 2006)
  • Lower Limb and Bisected Pelvis Specimen (right, inferior view), 2000
    pen
    30 x 42 cm
  • Skull Plaster Cast, Julian Ashton Art School, 1960
    charcoal
    51 x 38 cm
  • Model Sleeping, South Australian School of Art, 1960
    charcoal, white and brown conté
    43 x 58.5 cm

DRAWINGS : Anatomy 57 Works Back
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