So much so that, after his father's death, he read through his father's precious sketchbooks, decided they were a bit namby-pamby and burnt them. |
The lightness of touch and the freshness of observation found in the sketchbooks now animate oil paintings of scale and substance. |
He enjoyed drawing, and filled several sketchbooks in the course of his lifetime. |
Examples are scrapbooks for clippings, sticker books, sketchbooks, and albums for photographs, stamps or coins. |
Drawings of architectural metalwork, candlesticks, andirons, and plasterwork of the same earlier centuries fill his sketchbooks. |
Throughout, students note class comments in their sketchbooks for future reference. |