"Drawing is the foundation of my art -my sketchbook is always at hand" ~ Susan Dorothea White
DRAWINGS:
"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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Beggar in Venice, 2013
pen and spittle wash
13 x 20 cm
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Sidewalk Café, Venice, 2013
pen and spittle wash
13 x 20 cm
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Women in Dubai, 2013
pen
20 x 13 cm
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Russian Busking in Venice, 2013
pen
14 x 20 cm
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Mum at 101, 2012
pen
15 x 21 cm
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Windmill, Murray River, 2011
pen
14 x 21 cm
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Murray River: Cliffs and Bird , 2011
pen
14 x 21 cm
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Imy Reading Harry Potter, 2011
pen
14 x 21 cm
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Imy Reading on Sofa, 2011
pen
21 x 14 cm
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Ngong Ping Garden Restaurant, Hong Kong, 2011
pen
15 x 21 cm
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La Puerta del Vino, 2011
pen
21 x 15 cm
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Toledo by Day (diptych - right), 2011
pen
15 x 21 cm
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Toledo by Day (diptych - left), 2011
pen
15 x 21 cm
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Stephen Freeman, Concertmaster, 2011
pen
15 x 21 cm
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Woman at Beach, Nielsen Park, Sydney, 2010
pen
14 x 21 cm
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Simon Murphy Conducting New Dutch Academy, 2010
pen
21 x 14 cm
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Windmill, Kostverlorenkade, Amsterdam, 2010
pen
21 x 14 cm
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Not a Rothko - pen study for print, 2010
black felt-top pen
21 x 15 cm
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Stephen Freeman, Concertmaster and Nina Bols Lundgren, Soprano, 2010
pen
14 x 21 cm
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Chatting Smokers, Glebe Point Road, 2010
pen and black ink
14 x 18 cm
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Hand and wrist (left), extensor muscles and tendons, 2010
pastel
21 x 29 cm
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Hand and flexed wrist (right), extensor tendons, intrinsic muscles, 2010
pastel
21 x 29 cm
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Imy Drinking Lemonade, 2009 circa
pastel
30 x 42 cm
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Waratah (pen), 2009
pen
18 x 14 cm
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Sketch: Low Tide, Rozelle Bay, 2009
pen
21 x 29.7 cm
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Sketch: King Tide, Rozelle Bay, 2009
pen
21 x 29.7 cm
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Sketch: Smasch's Ear and Eva Cox, Glebe Deli Cafe, 2009
pen and black ink
14 x 18 cm
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Skull, quarter-sectioned, 2008-9
conté and pastel on silicon carbide paper
22 x 28 cm
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Gaia Listening to Grandpa Reading, 2008
pen
20 x 20 cm
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Shoulder and Thorax / Deltoid, pectoralis major, latissimus dorsi and serratus anterior muscles (right shoulder), 2008
pastel
29 x 21 cm
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Head, bisected (right side), medial view: nasal conchae, palate and tongue, 2008
pastel
21 x 29 cm
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Head and neck (right side): muscles, vessels and glands, 2008
pastel
21 x 29 cm
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The Skier / Upper Limb and shoulder muscles (right, anterior view), 2007
pastel
29 x 21 cm
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Anatomy of the Shoulder / Upper Limbs and shoulders over skeleton (anterior view), 2007
pastel and conté
29 x 21 cm
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Pronated Hand and Forearm (right): extensor muscles and bones, 2007
pastel and conté
29 x 21 cm
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My foot! / Foot (right), superior view of extensor tendons, muscles, 2007
pastel and conté
29 x 21 cm
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Lower Limb (left), posterior view: hollow of knee, hamstrings, calf muscles , 2007
pastel and conté
29 x 21 cm
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Pelvis and Thighs: skeleton, ligaments, deep muscles, 2007
pastel and conté
29 x 21 cm
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Anatomy of Gestures in The Last Supper: Simon's Hands, 2007
pastel and conté
29.5 x 42 cm
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Anatomy of Gestures in The Last Supper: Peter's Hand, 2007
pastel and conté
21 x 29 cm
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Anatomy of Gestures in The Last Supper: Matthew's Hands, 2007
pastel and conté
37.5 x 55 cm
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Anatomy of Gestures in The Last Supper: Judas' Hand, 2007
pastel and conté
21 x 29 cm
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Anatomy of Gestures in The Last Supper: Christ's Left Hand, 2007
pastel and conté
21 x 29 cm
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Anatomy of Gestures in The Last Supper: Bartholomew's Left Hand, 2007
pastel and conté
21 x 29 cm
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Anatomy of Gestures in The Last Supper: Andrew's Hands, 2007
pastel and conté
21 x 29 cm
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Spinal cord in vertebral canal, spinal nerves, membranes, cerebellum, 2007
pastel
29 x 21 cm
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Brain (right): cerebral cortex and cerebellum, 2007
pastel
21 x 29 cm
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Posterior Thigh Muscles / Lower Limbs and pelvis, posterior view, reflected gluteal muscles, 2007
pastel
29 x 21 cm
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Deep Hip Muscles / Hip (left), lateral view, deep muscles (gluteus maximus removed), 2007
pastel
29 x 21 cm
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Shoulder (left), posterior view: tendon attachments (above), muscles (below), 2007
pastel
29 x 21 cm
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Back, neck and shoulder muscles, window dissections, 2007
pastel
29 x 21 cm
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Back Muscles and Shiny Mirror Tendons / Back, neck and shoulder muscles, fascia, 2007
pastel
29 x 21 cm
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Simon Murphy (viola), New Dutch Academy Soloists, 2006
pen
14 x 20 cm
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Eduard Wesley (oboe), New Dutch Academy Soloists, 2006
pen
14 x 20 cm
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Stephen Freeman (violin), New Dutch Academy Soloists, 2006
pen
14 x 20 cm
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Georgia Brown (flute), New Dutch Academy Soloists, 2006
pen
14 x 20 cm
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Gluteus Maximus / Hip (right), lateral view: window cut in gluteus maximus, sciatic nerve, 2006
pastel and conté
29 x 21 cm
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Abducted Lower Limb / Thigh muscles, femoral arteries, external genitalia, 2006
pastel
29 x 21 cm
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The Cyclist and Tennis Player / Back: spine, ribs, scapulae, neck muscles, 2006
pastel
21 x 29 cm
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Upper Limb Actions: Finger lifting (top), flexing with precision grip, extending to point , 2006
chalk on blackboard
116 x 86 cm
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Back of the Blade / Shoulder (left), posterior view of muscles, spine of scapula, 2006
pastel
29 x 21 cm
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Drawing the Bow / Muscle Action of an Archer (anterior view), 2006
pastel
21 x 29 cm
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Anatomy of Michelangelo's David: Proportion and Contrapposto (posterior view), 2006
chalk on blackboard
116 x 86 cm
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Anatomy of Michelangelo's David: Proportion and Contrapposto (anterior view), 2006
chalk on blackboard
116 x 86 cm
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Neck (right side): deep muscles and levator scapulae, 2006
pastel
29 x 21 cm
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Half Skull, Half Face / Head and neck: face muscles, skull, orbit, and clavicles, 2006
pastel
29 x 21 cm
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Chin up! / Neck and lower jaw (right side): muscles, glands, inferior view, 2006
pastel
29 x 21 cm
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Face and neck muscles (left side), lateral view, 2006
pastel
29 x 21 cm
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Insight / Facial muscles and eye, 2006
pastel
29 x 21 cm
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Fetal Skeleton, 2005
pen
36 x 28 cm
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Musicians Living in Amsterdam, 2005
pastel
29.7 x 42 cm
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Tinting a Towel in Lilac, 2005
violet, black and white chalk on grey pastel paper
30 x 21 cm
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15-colour Sfumato Tomato, 2005
pastel chalks on red-ochre ingres paper
32.5 x 24.5 cm
(published in Draw Like Da Vinci, 2006) -
Monochrome Sfumato Tomato, 2005
pencil and white chalk on blue-toned paper
37.5 x 27.5 cm
(published in Draw Like Da Vinci, 2006) -
Sex Change for Vitruvian Man, 2005
drafting pen, black ink and gouache
24.5 x 21 cm
(published in Draw Like Da Vinci, 2006)