Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Pen & Ink

  • 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…

  • 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,…

  • 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…

  • Anton Batov

    Anton Batov is a Russian artist and illustrator based in Moscow. He is also a senior lecturer in design and graphic design at D. Mendeleyev University Of Chemical Technology Of Russia. I particularly enjoy Batov’s landscape and cityscape watercolors, many of which are painted on location. Even in his more finished studio watercolors, he carries…

  • Teagan White

    Minnesota based illustrator Teagan White takes her inspiration in animal and plant forms, often arranging them in compositions in which they are both representational images and design elements. White appears to work primarily in ink, applying color digitally in Photoshop, or traditionally with watercolor and gouache. She uses a restrained palette, leaning toward earth colors…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Bruegel pen and ink landscape

    Landscape with the Penitence of Saint Jerome, Pieter Bruegel the Elder In the National Gallery of Art, D.C, with zoomable version (also downloadable if you create a free account). There is an additional zoomable image on the Google Art Project and a smaller downloadable version on Wikimedia Commons. The nominal penitent saint is probably the…