Sketchbook no. 31 (1996-98)
Wide-format sketchbook with black cover; dated 1996-1998 (inside)
188 pages, 14.8 x 21
State Library of Victoria: Howard Arkley collection, MS 14217, series 2, no.31 [F BOX 4259]
Contents: extensive sequence of drawings, mostly in black fibre-tipped pen, including:
- 1st page: 3 cacti (inscribed ‘30th’)
- 2nd page: another cactus, signed and dated ‘HA 31 July 96’
- more cacti, annotated ‘Bad Day’
- stylized crocodile (titled)
- drawing titled ‘Father’ (in pencil) and also inscribed in pen: ’12th’ (reproduced opposite)
- drawing titled ‘Mother / Gren’ (etc.)
- drawing in black, grey and silver fibre-tipped pen titled ‘Jazz Sax’ (reproduced in Carnival Fig.4.14)
- drawing titled ‘Black jazz player’
- cactoid drawing labelled ‘Christ / very bad shit day’
- cactoid form in black and silver fibre-tipped pen, titled ‘Tonal’, s+d ‘HA.96’ (related to ‘Jazz Sax’ sketch)
- head & cactus, signed and dated ‘HA.97’
- stylized box on legs, signed and dated ‘HA.98’
- stylized female nude, signed and dated ‘HA 98’
- quasi-aboriginal composition, signed and dated ‘H.Arkley 97’