The Jayme Sketchbook

Any teenage male artist is going to dedicate sketchbooks to girlfriends and lovers. This one is an early, experimental sketchbook in common ballpoint ink, begun after my senior year in high school. It was lost during college years, resurfacing in the mid-1990s. I filled the small sketchpad with pencil and ink portraits, all of the pencil portraits lost due to carrying the pad around often. The ink sketches survive and mostly illustrate the evolution of my figure drawing skills. Patrick Nagel strongly influenced the early drawings, something that fades long before rediscovery of the sketchbook.

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Stylized Ink Drawing of Jayme

This sketchbook began in 1988, I was enthralled with Nagel and it shows.

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Styized Ink Drawing of Julia

Another 1998 Nagel-esque drawing of a friend

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Rediscovered Sketchbook and Musings on the Passage of Time

The left eye was drawn in 1988, but finished in 1996.

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Sketch of “Kaisone”

Drawing of a lady met at the Literacy Council, where I was a tutor in 1996

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Catfish Sculpture at the Meeting of the Waters

My friend John B. and I went sketching; a common practice was having my sketchbooks signed; this was signed by architect Fumihiko Maki.

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“Icarus and Camélia”

Recollection in the arms of a girlfriend.

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“Icarus” Viene a Disegnare

Self-portrait entering Cafe Philippe to sketch.

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Figure Drawing of Model Terry

A pen sketch made at the St. Louis Artists Guild Thursday Night Figure Drawing Club.

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Aðilyrâ (“Fair Laura”)

This is a drawing of my wife Laura shortly before our marriage. The man who married us, Archbishop Joseph P. Naumann, signed this drawing after Pre-Cana.

This page last modified Monday 7 May 2012.


a00 Stylized Ink Drawing of Jayme This sketchbook began in 1988, I was enthralled with Nagel and it shows.	a01 Styized Ink Drawing of Julia Another 1998 Nagel-esque drawing of a friend	a02 Rediscovered Sketchbook and Musings on the Passage of Time The left eye was drawn in 1988, but finished in 1996.	a04 Sketch of “Kaisone” Drawing of a lady met at the Literacy Council, where I was a tutor in 1996

a05 Catfish Sculpture at the Meeting of the Waters My friend John B. and I went sketching; a common practice was having my sketchbooks signed; this was signed by architect Fumihiko Maki.	a06 “Icarus and Camélia” Recollection in the arms of a girlfriend.	a07 “Icarus” Viene a Disegnare Self-portrait entering Cafe Philippe to sketch.	a12 Figure Drawing of Model Terry A pen sketch made at the St. Louis Artists Guild Thursday Night Figure Drawing Club.

a13 Aðilyrâ (“Fair Laura”) This is a drawing of my wife Laura shortly before our marriage. The man who married us, Archbishop Joseph P. Naumann, signed this drawing after Pre-Cana.

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The Jayme Sketchbook