Most museums allow sketching with dry media (except pastels) without special permission, and ban liquid materials like ink and watercolor. I use water-soluble graphite pencils, a sink in the museum’s Men’s Room and a brush to blend some of the sketches, sometimes with unexpected results and quizzical looks from other museum visitors.
I find sketching meditative, it slows me down and I connect with specific art pieces. The point is not an accurate replication of the original art, but rather to spend some time focusing on a specific piece of art.
Fragmentary Colossal Head of a Youth - Metropolitan Museum
The Three Graces - Liverpool - Royal Liver Building, The Cunard Building and the Port of Liverpool Building
St. Mary Woolnoth - Hawksmoor
Male Torso - Roman - Toledo Museum of Art
Bust of Alexander the Great by Carlo Albacini Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Thames Foreshore
Duncan Grant by Duncan Grant oil on canvas, circa 1909 NPG 5131 NPG London
Rupert Brooke by Clara Ewald oil on canvas, 1911 NPG 4911 NPG London
National Theatre - Southbank
Millennium Bridge and St. Paul's - London
Torso of an Athlete - Roman - Detroit Institute of the Arts
Cow Sculpture @ Brandywine Museum
The Supper at Emmaus by Caravaggio 1601 National Gallery, London
Karlsplatz Pavilion - Otto Wagner - Wien
Kunsthistorisches Museum - Wien
Broadcasting House/All Soul's Langham - London
St. Paul's London
Upper Belvedere Museum - Vienna
Karlskirche - Vienna
Karlskirche - Vienna
Bitzinger Würstelstand - Wien
St. George's Bloomsbury - Hawksmoor
Kunsthistorisches Museum - Wien
Orangerie - Wien
Mozart - Wien
St. John's Bethnal Green - Sir John Soane
Kunsthistorisches Museum - Wien
James Joyce by Jacques-Emile Blanche oil on canvas, 1935 NPG 3883 NPG London
Albert Memorial and Albert Hall
St. Paul's and Millennium Bridge - London
St. Stephen's - Wien
St. Stephen's - Wien
Karlskirche - Wien
Hercules the Archer by Antoine Bourdelle (1861-1929) Musee Bourdelle, Paris
Self Portrait as Saint Catherine of Alexandria by Artemisia Gentileschi Room 32 National Gallery, London
Trinity Church Boston - Henry Hobson Richardson
Frieze of the Prophets (East) John Singer Sargent - Boston Public Library 12/11/21
John Singer Sargent -Frieze of the Prophets (West) - Boston Public Library
Sargent Gallery - Boston Public Library
Roman Torso - Kunsthistorisches Museum - Wien
Roman Torso - Kunsthistorisches Museum - Wien
Karlskirche, Wien
Somerset House - London
The Liberation of the Source? Wien
Back of the Albertina - Wien
Bandstand - Krems, Austria
John Singer Sargent - The Daughters of Edward Darley Boat - and a Pair of 19th C. Japanese Vases - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Nude study of Thomas McKeller - by John Singer Sargent - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Mississippi, Father of Waters by Larkin Goldsmith Mead Minneapolis City Hall, Minnesota
Pulpit - Trinity Church Boston
Trinity Church Boston - Henry Hobson Richardson
Trinity Church Boston - Henry Hobson Richardson
Glyn Warren Philpot by Glyn Warren Philpot oil on canvas, 1908 NPG 4681 NPG London
Josef Herman by Josef Herman oil on canvas, 1947 NPG 7040 NPG London
The Musicians - Caravaggio - Met Museum
Marble statue of the so-called Apollo Lykeios Metropolitan Museum of Art
Fray Hortensio Félix Paravicino by El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) 1609 MFA Boston
Doryphoros (Spear Bearer) J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild ('Man in a Chair') by Lucien Freud NPG L201 NPG London
Lord RIbblesdale by John Singer Sargent National Gallery London
Venus and Mars (well... Mars) by Sandro Botticelli National Gallery, London
Niccolò Mauruzi da Tolentino at the Battle of San Romano (probably c. 1438–1440) by Paolo Uccello National Gallery, London
Niccolò Mauruzi da Tolentino at the Battle of San Romano (probably c. 1438–1440) by Paolo Uccello National Gallery, London
Key West watercolor 1990
Marble Statue of a Youthful Hercules Metropolitan Museum of Art
Santo Spirito, Florence Brunelleschi
Crucifixion of St. Andrew By Caravaggio Cleveland Museum of Art
The Sacrifice of Isaac by Andrea Del Sarto Cleveland Museum of Art
President Sarmiento by Auguste Rodin Philadelphia Museum of Art
The Burghers of Calais by Auguste Rodin Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Head of Castor Royal Academy of Arts - London
Radclyffe Hall by Charles Buchel (Karl August Büchel) oil on canvas, 1918 NPG 4347 NPG London
Key West watercolor detail 1990
Male torso (Mercury?) Roman- Imperial Period - 1st half of the 1st century A.D. MFA Boston
John Logie Baird by Donald Gilbert bronze bust, 1959, based on a work of 1943 NPG 4125 NPG London
Winston Churchill by Graham Sutherland oil on canvas, 1954 NPG 5332 NPG London
Portrait of Albert Paris von Gütersloh By Egon Schiele Minneapolis Institute of the Arts
Campanile Basilica di Santo Spirito Firenze
Prince Frederick's Barge by William Kent National Maritime Museum - London
San Giobbe Altarpiece Madonna Enthroned with Christ Child and Saints by Giovanni Bellini Gallerie dell'Accademia - Venice
Burrasca di Mare by Jacopo Palma il Vecchio Accademia, Venice
detail, Burrasca di Mare by Jacopo Palma il Vecchio Accademia, Venice
Santissima Annunziata, Firenze
Dacre Beasts Victoria and Albert Museum, London
The Royal Family at Buckingham Palace, 1913 by Sir John Lavery 1913 NPG 1745 NPG London
The Head of Castor Royal Academy of Arts - London