"Sketches" is an artist's book with thoughts and ideas about day-to-day life. It combines witty, thought provoking text with black-and-white line drawings of women.
The result? A fun read that will bring many smiles and laughs.
It's not just an art book of sketch drawings, but one also filled with captions and quick-witted text that will make you laugh.
The characters in the drawings always have a comment or insight about themselves or their sketch:
"I didn't want to pose like this".
"I preferred roses, but the artist chose cacti"
"We hung out at art museums hoping to be painted by famous artists".
"I was once offered a part in a best-selling novel".
"Sketches" is easy to enjoy - One can open it to any page and start reading....over and over and over again.
This 240-page book contains over 220 sketches drawn by international artist Charles Kaufman. Kaufman combined his drawings with a bit of clever, humorous text to create a fun book to view and read.
Charles Kaufman is an American artist with art studios in the U.S. and Germany.
After creating freelance cartoons & illustrations for many years and working as the Creative Director in an ad agency, Kaufman picked up the paintbrush to start painting. He has been painting and exhibiting his work full time since 1995.
Kaufman's original paintings and other works of art are exhibited in galleries and other venues in the United States and in Europe.
From the introduction of the book Sketches:
"Every day I draw in my sketchbooks in search of ideas for new paintings. Over the years I have created a library of over a hundred different sketchbooks. Thousands of drawings with all sorts of different characters and ideas. From all the sketches maybe one out of every couple hundred sketch ideas becomes a painting.
A while back I was looking through some old sketchbooks for painting ideas and I noticed that for the last few years I had been adding text, a sentence, a few words on many of the sketches. The sentences I had added were just random thoughts. Since there were so many sketches with text I got the idea to put them together in a book to share with others.
This book contains sketches taken from over 25 different sketchbooks, plus a few digital sketches.
The sketches in this book are all of women - that is what I mostly paint.
What do I use to draw? Whatever is handy; but mostly a simple ball point pen. A couple of sketches in this book were done digitally via my iPad.
All the sketches in this book were drawn between 2012 and 2015.
I hope you enjoy the book, I had fun creating it.
Charles"
About the Author: Charles Kaufman is an American artist with art studios in the U.S. and Germany. After many years of creating freelance cartoons & illustrations plus working as the ad agency Creative Director, Kaufman picked up the paintbrush to start painting. He has been painting and exhibiting his work fulltime since 1995. His original paintings and other works of art are exhibited in galleries and other venues in the United States and in Europe. Charles Kaufman´s creative work has been in over 100 publications around the world. He has created illustrations and comics for McDonalds, Wall Street Journal, Hewlett-Packard, MacAddict (wrote How-to animation article, created art and animations for CD), Wall Street Journal-Europe, Cover of Focus magazine, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Five to Nine, Idea Fixa, "Göooo 7", "Mail Me Art", 2004 New Pop Music Festival, Psychologie Heute, PC Professionell, MacFormat, Finanztest, Manager Magazin, Tchibo Magazin, TOPHAIR, abendture & reisen, pablo, Neue Medien, CineChart, MacMagazine, Zeichentrickfilm, Psychologie Heute, Punsch, PC Professionell, MacFormat, Finanztest, Manager Magazin, Familie & Computer, Eltern für Familien, Computer-Künstler, Digital Video, Schöner Wohnen, Zuhause Wohnen, Der Kunst Händel, Rip Off Comix, U-Comix, Werben & Verkauf, Meier, einstein magazin, Rhein-Neckar Zeitung, Stadtblatt, Heidelberg Aktuell, Kultur Kaleidiskop, Neue Wohnen, CARtoons, British humor magazine Punch, The Stars and Stripes, Overseas!, Willamette Week, Passagen, Heidelberg Journal, Hamburger Abendblatt, Editor & Publisher, The Portland Enquirer, Downtowner, Oregon Business, Car Review, Art Shop International, Auto Week, The Oregonian and many more. He has illustrated and written over five books including his recent collection of women paintings titled, "Five Hundred and Forty Women". Detail Views, The Land of the Giant Toasters, The First Collection of Fred and Frank comics. Plus illustrated several books: Flash 5 Cartooning, Art Nürnberg, Financial Accounting Theory, Ski Europe (6 annual books), Whole Europe Escape Manual: England, Whole Europe Escape Manual: Germany, Whole Europe Escape Manual: France. Rekken En Strekken - Netherland's Cartoon Festival Winner's Book . "Literature, Grade 10" from Houghton, Mifflin, Harcourt Publishers Charles Kaufman's colorful paintings and other art is in collections worldwide.
