Picking Lilli Pillis, Piper St, Annandale, 2010
goldpoint & pastel on silicon carbide paper
21 x 28 cm

"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."
Grid view
List view
conté
56 Works to view
56 Works to view
  • Betraying Chalk for Conté 2005
    conté pencil and conté sticks, damp brush wash, paper toned with conté stick and finger
    21 x 16 cm
    T-2005
  • Jelly Bush (Leptospermum polygalifolium) 2021
    (September 2021)
    pastel and conté
    21 x 29.7 cm
    D-2021
  • Chorizema cordatum - Native Pea Flower 2020
    pastel and conté on silicon carbide paper
    28 x 21.5 cm
    D-2020
  • Native Frangipani Flowers 2020
    pastel and conté
    21 x 29.7 cm
    D-2020
  • Scribbly Gum Blossom with Flies 2020
    pastel and conté on silicon carbide paper
    21 x 28 cm
    D-2020
  • Scribbly Gum Blossom with Teddy-bear Bees 2020
    pastel and conté on silicon carbide paper
    21 x 28 cm
    D-2020
  • Paul (face study) 1992
    conté
    51.1 x 38 cm
    D-1992
  • Paul (looking ahead) 1992
    conté
    51.1 x 38 cm
    D-1992
  • Paul (reading, leg on knee) 1992
    conté
    51.1 x 38 cm
    D-1992
  • The Ghost of Kabbarli, Daisy Bates (drawing) 1983
    conté
    54.5 x 75 cm
    D-1983
  • Squiggles 1980
    conté, red
    17 x 23.5 cm
    D-1980
  • Sleeping Child, Head turned to right 1965
    conté
    28 x 38 cm
    D-1965
  • Sleeping Child, Foreshortened view 1965
    conté
    28 x 38 cm
    D-1965
  • Wide-eyed Baby, Michaela 1965
    conté
    36 x 25 cm
    D-1965
  • Andy Asleep 1965
    conté
    28 x 38 cm
    D-1965
  • Girl at YWCA Hostel, Kirribilli 1961
    conté
    38 x 27 cm
    D-1961-6
  • Male Nude, Back View, Julian Ashton Art School 1961
    conté
    38 x 28 cm
    D-1961-21
  • Skull, quarter-sectioned 2008
    conté and pastel on silicon carbide paper
    22.1 x 28.3 cm
    A-2008
  • Female lower limbs 2 2007
    pastel and conté
    21 x 29.7 cm
    A-2007
  • Female lower limbs 1 2007
    pastel and conté
    21 x 29.7 cm
    A-2007
  • Fetus submerged in formalin fluid 2007
    pastel and conté
    29.7 x 21 cm
    A-2007
  • Left shoulder: deep dissection with muscle attachments, clavicle and scapula and deltoid window dissection 2007
    pastel and conté
    29.7 x 21 cm
    A-2007
  • Organs (liver, gallbladder, stomach, pancreas, duodenum, kidneys) 2007
    pastel and conté
    29.7 x 21 cm
    A-2007
  • Abdomen, pelvis and thighs (female) 2007
    pastel and conté
    29.7 x 21 cm
    A-2007
  • Right thigh in cross-section (viewed from below) 2007
    pastel and conté
    21 x 29.7 cm
    A-2007
  • Skin and subcutaneous fat (thigh) 2007
    pastel and conté
    21 x 29.7 cm
    A-2007
  • Brain in situ 2007
    pastel and conté
    29.7 x 21 cm
    A-2007
  • Brain with cerebral convolutions 2007
    pastel and conté
    21 x 29.7 cm
    A-2007
  • Deep dissection of right hip (exploded view of joint) 2007
    pastel and conté
    29.7 x 21 cm
    A-2007
  • Thigh with bisected pelvis (left, medial view) 2007
    pastel and conté
    29.7 x 21 cm
    A-2007
  • Forceps holding muscle of left forearm 2007
    pastel and conté
    29.7 x 21 cm
    A-2007
  • Muscles and tendons of right elbow and forearm (pronated) 2007
    pastel and conté
    29.7 x 21 cm
    A-2007
  • Muscles and tendons of right hand (supinated) 2007
    pastel and conté
    29.7 x 21 cm
    A-2007
  • Anatomy of the Shoulder / Upper Limbs and shoulders over skeleton (anterior view) 2007
    pastel and conté
    29.7 x 21 cm
    A-2007
  • Pronated Hand and Forearm (right): extensor muscles and bones 2007
    pastel and conté
    29.7 x 21 cm
    A-2007
  • My foot! 2007
    Foot (right), superior view of extensor tendons, muscles
    pastel and conté
    29.7 x 21 cm
    A-2007
  • Lower Limb (left), posterior view: hollow of knee, hamstrings, calf muscles 2007
    pastel and conté
    29.7 x 21 cm
    A-2007
  • Pelvis and Thighs: skeleton, ligaments, deep muscles 2007
    pastel and conté
    29.7 x 21 cm
    A-2007
  • Anatomy of Gestures in 'The Last Supper': Simon's Hands 2007
    pastel and conté
    29.5 x 42 cm
    A-2007
  • Anatomy of Gestures in 'The Last Supper': Peter's Hand 2007
    pastel and conté
    21 x 29.7 cm
    A-2007
  • Anatomy of Gestures in 'The Last Supper': Matthew's Hands 2007
    pastel and conté
    37.5 x 55 cm
    A-2007
  • Anatomy of Gestures in 'The Last Supper': Judas' Hand 2007
    pastel and conté
    21 x 29.7 cm
    A-2007
  • Anatomy of Gestures in 'The Last Supper': Christ's Left Hand 2007
    pastel and conté
    21 x 29.7 cm
    A-2007
  • Anatomy of Gestures in 'The Last Supper': Bartholomew's Left Hand 2007
    pastel and conté
    21 x 29.7 cm
    A-2007
  • Anatomy of Gestures in 'The Last Supper': Andrew's Hands 2007
    pastel and conté
    21 x 29.7 cm
    A-2007
  • Face of embalmed head 2006
    pastel and conté
    21 x 29.7 cm
    A-2006
  • Embalmed head (right profile) 2006
    pastel and conté
    21 x 29.7 cm
    A-2006
  • Parotid gland and head muscles (right profile) 2006
    pastel and conté
    29.7 x 21 cm
    A-2006
  • Muscles and tendons, palm of right hand 2006
    pastel and conté
    29.7 x 21 cm
    A-2006
  • Superficial muscles and fascia (male figure) 2006
    pastel and conté
    29.7 x 21 cm
    A-2006
  • Gluteus Maximus / Hip (right), lateral view: window cut in gluteus maximus, sciatic nerve 2006
    pastel and conté
    29.7 x 21 cm
    A-2006
  • Muscles of Disgust 2005
    (after Leonardo da Vinci's Study of a man's head in profile to right c. 1503-4)
    black chalk and coloured conté on buff paper
    26 x 19 cm
    A-2005
  • Mother and Son 2001
    Skeletons of adult and child contrasted
    pastel and conté
    42 x 29.5 cm
    A-2001
  • Dissected Legs 2001
    Legs and feet: muscles, fascia, Achilles tendons
    pastel and conté
    30 x 42 cm
    A-2001
  • Queensland Silver Wattle (Acacia podalyriifolia) and Seedpods 2014
    pastel and contéon silicon carbide paper
    28 x 22 cm
    2014
  • Surgery Reattaching Ginevra de 'Benci's Arms and Hands 2005
    graphite underdrawing, coloured pencil and conté with giclée
    29 x 21 cm
    2005

Drawings : conté 56 Works
Drawings : conté 56 Works

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