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Category: Pen & Ink

  • Matty Burnham

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    Matty Burnham is an English artist and illustrator working in ink and watercolor. His subjects are usually architectural, often of modest little cottages and houses. He captures these with varied ink lines drawn with a fude fountain pen, which allows artists to vary the width and character of their line by turning the pen at…

  • Bill Sanderson

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    Bill Sanderson is a freelance illustrator with a long career in editorial and comercial illustration as well as book publishing. Sanderson works in the fascinating method of scratchboard, in which a specially prepared board is coated with ink, and the image is created by scratching white areas out of the ink with sharp tools. While…

  • Horace Knowles

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    Horace J Knowles was a British writer and illustrator active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for his illustrations for fairland and fairy tales, as well as biblical illustrations and pieces to accompany poetry. He worked in black and white, in a style that shows the influence of Art Nouveau as well…

  • Dugald Stewart Walker

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    Dugald Stewart Walker was one of the less well known American illustrators active in the early 20th century, basically in the latter part of the “Golden Age” of illustraion. His style was in keeping with other great illustrators of the time, notably, I think, those from Europe and the UK, like Edmund Dulac, Arthur Rackham,…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Durer ink drawing

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    An Eastern Ruler Seated on His Throne. Albrecht Durer, pen and black ink on paper, 12 x 8 inches (31 x 20 cm), in the collection of the National Gallery of Art, DC. Durer was a master of painting, graphics and, of course, drawing. In this wonderful ink drawing, his command of line, hatching and…

  • Arthur Rackham illustration from The Night Before Christmas

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    The great “Golden Age” British illustrator Arthur Rackham created illustrations for an edition of Clement C. Moore’s beloved poem, The Night Before Christmas in 1915. There is a version of the edition on Wikisource. The illustrations range from brief ink sketches to more fully realized ink and watercolor paintings. In this one, we see The…