Category: Pen & Ink
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Eye Candy for Today: Frederico Zuccaro ink and wash drawing
Taddeo Copying Raphael’s Frescoes in the Loggia of the Villa Farnesina, Where He is Also Represented Asleep, Frederico Zuccaro Pen and brown ink with brown wash; roughly 17×8″ (42×17 cm). Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Getty Museum which also has a much…
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Eye Candy for Today: Franklin Booth pen and ink landscape drawing
Landscape drawing (untitled), Franklin Booth Link is to Outside Logic, from this page of Franklin Booth drawings. I don’t know of a reference to the title or use of this drawing as an illustration. Golden Age American illustrator Franklin Booth developed his brilliant and unique style of pen and ink illustration from the mistaken assumption…
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Eye Candy for Today: Titian pen drawing
Trees Near a Pool of Water, Titian (Tiziano Vecellio) Pen and brown ink, roughly 8×10″ (21x24cm). Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; original is in the Harvard Art Museums, which also has a zoomable image — as well as a version here. 16th century Venetian Master Tiziano Vecellio, commonly known as Titian,…
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Eye Candy for Today: Peter Birmann’s The Devil’s Bridge
The Devil’s Bridge in the Schöllenen Gorge on the Way across the St. Gotthard Pass with a Mule Train, Peter Birmann Pen, brush, gray and brown inks. Link is to zoomable version on the Google Art Project; downloadable version on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Albertina, Vienna. Though the rendering is distinctly european, the…
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Eye Candy for Today: Tenniel’s Cheshire Cat
Cheshire Cat in the Tree Above Alice, illustration for for Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, John Tenniel Several museums are all atwitter today with images for something called “National Cat Day”, apparently a day when the Ancient Egyptian tradition of cat worship takes over the internet — even more than usual. As a cat person myself,…
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Mark A. Nelson
Mark A. Nelson is an illustrator, comics artist, concept artist and art director. He has worked for Dark Horse Comics, Marvel Comics, DC Comics, Kitchen Sink Press, Wizards of the Coast, TSR and many other publishers, as well as gaming and visual development companies like Raven Software, Sega Games and Pure Imagination Studios. Nelson has…