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Category: Pen & Ink

  • Eye Candy for Today: Canaletto drawing

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    Architectural Capriccio, Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal) Pen and brown ink, with gray wash, over graphite and traces of black chalk, 11 1/4 x 8 1/16 inches (286 x 204 mm) Wow, I just love drawings like this — simultaneously loose and gestural and pinned to geometrically solid draftsmanship. What a brilliant use of warm brown…

  • My new post on Virgil Finlay for Tor.com

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    I’m happy to report that I’ve contributed my second post to the Tor.com website. I wrote for them on May on the Fleisher Superman Cartoons. In the new article, The Dark and Light of Virgil Finlay, I give an overview of the great science fiction, fantasy and horror illustrator who had such an impact on…

  • Patrick Arrasmith (update)

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    Since I first wrote about illustrator Patrick Arrasmith back in 2008, he has become best known as the illustrator of the Last Apprentice series by Joseph Delaney. Arrasmith works in the difficult but rewarding medium of scratchboard, in which line and tone are created by scratching black ink from the surface of clay-coated board on…

  • Eric Fraser

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    Eric Fraser was a 20th century British illustrator best known for his illustrations in Radio Times that spanned a run of over 40 years. Fraser also worked in many other venues, from book illustration to commercial art for advertising, His work is the subject of a retrospective at the Chris Beetles Gallery in London, that…

  • Tomislav Tomić

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    Tomislav Tomić is an illustrator from Croatia whose illustrations carry influences of both Golden Age illustration and Renaissance printmaking. Tomić works with technical pens (Rotring Isographs), adding color for some pieces with colored inks, watercolor and occasionally acrylics. There is a recent feature on his tools on The Tools Artists Use, which is where I…

  • Douglas Smith

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    There is something special about the appeal of scratchboard. In skilled hands it can combine some of the visual charm of woodcuts or engravings with the best characteristics of pen and ink. The work of Douglas Smith is a prime example of the medium’s strengths. Smith is an illustrator, originally from New York, who established…