“Drawing is the foundation of my art — my sketchbook
is always at hand”
Susan Dorothea White

DRAWINGS & SKETCHES

A selection from 1958 to present

at work...

"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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Chatting Smokers, Glebe Point Road, 2010, pen drawing by Australian artist Susan Dorothea White

Chatting Smokers, Glebe Point Road
2010, pen

Smasch's Ear and Eva Cox, Glebe Deli Cafe, 2009, pen drawing by Australian artist Susan Dorothea White

Smasch's Ear and Eva Cox, Glebe Deli Cafe
2009, pen

Sketch: King Tide, Rozelle Bay, pen drawing by Australian artist Susan Dorothea White

Sketch: King Tide, Rozelle Bay
2009, pen

Sketch: Low Tide, Rozelle Bay, pen drawing by Australian artist Susan Dorothea White

Sketch: Low Tide, Rozelle Bay
2009, pen

Picking Lilli Pillis, goldpoint and pastel drawing by Australian artist Susan Dorothea White

Picking Lilli Pillis
2010, goldpint & pastel

Imogen Drawing, goldpoint, pencil and conté drawing by Australian artist Susan Dorothea White

Imogen Drawing
2009, goldpint, pencil, black conté

Marking Exams, goldpoint and chalk drawing by Australian artist Susan Dorothea White

Marking Exams
2006, goldpoint, chalk

Feisty 95-year-old Mum, goldpoint, pastel and conté drawing by Australian artist Susan Dorothea White

Feisty 95-year-old Mum
2006, goldpoint, pastel, conté

Four Petal, goldpoint drawing by Australian artist Susan Dorothea White

Four Petal
2008, goldpoint, pastel, conté

Native Pea, goldpoint drawing by Australian artist Susan Dorothea White

Native Pea
2008, goldpoint, conté

Native Flowers, goldpoint drawing by Australian artist Susan Dorothea White

Native Flowers
2008, goldpoint, conté

Gilding the Lily, goldpoint and chalk drawing by Australian artist Susan Dorothea White, published in 'Draw Like da Vinci'

Gilding the Lily
2005, golpoint, chalk

Lilli Pilli, goldpoint drawing by Australian artist Susan Dorothea White

Lilli Pilli: Blossoms and Berries
2006, goldpoint, pastel, conté

Passionfruit and Flower, goldpoint and conté drawing by Australian artist Susan Dorothea White

Passionfruit and Flower
2006, goldpoint, conté

Unregistered Vehicle - Get with the Times! pen and wash drawing by Australian artist Susan Dorothea White; published in 'Draw Like da Vinci'

Unregistered Vehicle - Get with the Times!
2005, pen, wash, ballpoint, coloured pencil, correction fluid

A Pizza on the Wrong Plane in the Wrong Millennium, 2005, pen and sepia ink, coloured pencil drawing by Australian artist Susan Dorothea White; published in 'Draw Like da Vinci'

A Pizza on the Wrong Plane in the Wrong Millennium
2005, pen, coloured pencil

Surgery Reattaching Ginevra de'Benci's Arms and Hands, graphite and coloured pencil drawing by Australian artist Susan Dorothea White; published in 'Draw Like da Vinci'

Surgery Reattaching Ginevra de'Benci's Arms and Hands
2005, graphite underdrawing, coloured pencil and conté

Sex Change for Vitruvian Man, pen, ink and gouache drawing by Australian artist Susan Dorothea White; published in 'Draw Like da Vinci'

Sex Change for Vitruvian Man
2005, pen, ink, gouache

Monochrome Sfumato Tomato, pastel drawing by Australian artist Susan Dorothea White; published in 'Draw Like da Vinci'

Monochrome Sfumato Tomato
2005, pastel

15-Colour Sfumato Tomato, pastel drawing by Australian artist Susan Dorothea White; published in 'Draw Like da Vinci'

15-Colour Sfumato Tomato
2005, pastel

Tinting a Towel in Lilac, chalk drawing by Australian artist Susan Dorothea White; published in 'Draw Like da Vinci'

Tinting a Towel in Lilac
2005, chalk

Musicians Living in Amsterdam, pastel drawing by Australian artist Susan Dorothea White

Musicians Living in Amsterdam
2005, pastel

Young Street from Our Window, patel drawing by Australian artist Susan Dorothea White

Young Street from Our Window
2003, pastel

Due, pastel drawing by Australian artist Susan Dorothea White

Due
2001, pastel

Wounded Tree, pastel drawing by Australian artist Susan Dorothea White

Wounded Tree
2003, pastel

Boiling the Billy, pastel drawing by Australian artist Susan Dorothea White

Boiling the Billy
2001, pastel

Baroque Violinist - Stephen Freeman, pen drawing by Australian artist Susan Dorothea White

Baroque Violinist - Stephen Freeman
2001, pen

Stephen Practising Violin, pastel drawing by Australian artist Susan Dorothea White

Stephen Freeman - Baroque Violin
2000, pastel

Genevieve Lacey (Recorder Player), pen drawing by Australian artist Susan Dorothea White

Genevieve Lacey (Recorder Player)
2000, pen

Storytime for Grandchildren, pen drawing by Australian artist Susan Dorothea White

Storytime for Grandchildren
1998, pen

Jordi Savall at Martigny, pen drawing by Australian artist Susan Dorothea White

Jordi Savall at Martigny
1998, pen

Columbia University Medical Center Cafeteria, New York, pen drawing by Australian artist Susan Dorothea White

Columbia University Medical Center Cafeteria, New York
1998, pen

Pepper's Snout and Paws, pen and wash drawing by Australian artist Susan Dorothea White

Pepper's Snout and Paws
1997, pen, wash

Leichhardt Mall Food Court, pen drawing by Australian artist Susan Dorothea White

Leichhardt Mall Food Court
1997, pen

Dug Talking, pen drawing by Australian artist Susan Dorothea White

Dug Talking
1996, pen

Cauliflower Brain, pen drawing by Australian artist Susan Dorothea White

Cauliflower Brain
1986, pen

Women Waiting, pencil drawing by Australian artist Susan Dorothea White

Women Waiting
1981, pencil

Parents at a School Concert, pen drawing by Australian artist Susan Dorothea White

Parents at a School Concert
1981, pen

Stephen Playing Violin, 1980, pen drawing by Australian artist Susan Dorothea White

Stephen Playing Violin
1980, pen

Pensive Scientist, pen drawing by Australian artist Susan Dorothea White; published in 'Draw Like da Vinci'

Pensive Scientist
1978, pen

Paul Playing Cello, pen drawing by Australian artist Susan Dorothea White

Paul Playing Cello
1977, pen

Michaela in Profile
1977, charcoal

Uncle Ted Telling a Joke, pen drawing by Australian artist Susan Dorothea White

Uncle Ted Telling a Joke
1975, pen

Uncle Ted Eating Breakfast, pen drawing by Australian artist Susan Dorothea White

Uncle Ted Eating Breakfast
1975, pen

Nick Origlass, Mayor of Leichhardt, ballpoint sketch by Australian artist Susan Dorothea White

Nick Origlass, Mayor of Leichhardt Council
1972, ballpoint

Izzy Wyner, Leichhardt Alderman, ballpoint sketch by Australian artist Susan Dorothea White

Izzy Wyner, Leichhardt Council Alderman
1972, ballpoint

Paul: Six Years, pastel drawing by Australian artist Susan Dorothea White

Paul: Six Years
1971, pastel

3-year-old Stephen, pencil drawing by Australian artist Susan Dorothea White

3-year-old Stephen
1971, pencil

Stephen: One Year, brush and wash drawing by Australian artist Susan Dorothea White

Stephen: One Year
1969, brush & wash

Michaela, brush and wash drawing by Australian artist Susan Dorothea White

Michaela
1967, brush & wash

Michaela Sleeping, ballpoint drawing by Australian artist Susan Dorothea White

Michaela Sleeping
1966, ballpoint

Drawing of Baby Paul, ballpoint drawing by Australian artist Susan Dorothea White

Drawing of Baby Paul
1965, ballpoint

Michaela at 3 Weeks, brush and wash drawing by Australian artist Susan Dorothea White

Michaela at 3 Weeks
1964, brush & wash

Jagged Outback Rocks, crayon drawing by Australian artist Susan Dorothea White

Jagged Outback Rocks
1961, crayon

Rocky Ridge, Broken Hill, pen drawing by Australian artist Susan Dorothea White; published in 'Draw Like da Vinci'

Rocky Ridge, Broken Hill
1961, pen

Black Velvet, charcoal drawing by Australian artist Susan Dorothea White; published in 'Draw Like da Vinci'

Black Velvet
1961, charcoal

Peter Creet, Julian Ashton's Art School, charcoal drawing by Australian artist Susan Dorothea White

Peter Creet, Julian Ashton Art School
1961, charcoal

Henry Gibbons, Principal at Julian Ashton's Art School, pen drawing by Australian artist Susan Dorothea White

Henry Gibbons, Principal, Julian Ashton Art School
1960, pen

Marg the Cook at the Girls Friendly Society Lodge Adelaide, crayon drawing by Australian artist Susan Dorothea White

Marg the Cook at the Girls Friendly Society Lodge
1960, crayon

Student Writing: Dickensian Conditions at the Girls Friendly Society Lodge Adelaide, crayon drawing by Australian artist Susan Dorothea White

Student Writing: Dickensian Conditions at....,
1960, crayon

Hindley Street, Adelaide, pen drawing by Australian artist Susan Dorothea White

Trolley Bus and Workmen, Hindley Street, Adelaide
1959, pen

Yvonne Gilford, pencil drawing by Australian artist Susan Dorothea White

Yvonne Gilford
1958, pencil

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