Category: Pen & Ink
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Ali Cavanaugh
In a process similar to traditional fresco-secco — a method of painting with water based paints on a dry plaster surface that has been moistened — St. Louis based painter Ali Cavanaugh works by applying layers of watercolor to a prepared clay ground that has been wet. The resulting images have been described as luminous…
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Eye Candy for Today: Rembrandt townscape drawing
Stadspoort, Rembrandt Harmenz van Rijn In the collection of the Rijksmuseum; pen and brown ink, with wash; roughly 5 x 7 inches (138×196 mm). You will sometimes hear those writing about art, myself included, use the phrase economy of notation. If you were to look up that phrase in my personal dictionary, the definition would…
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Randy Glass
Randy Glass is a well-known illustrator who specializes in the pen and ink technique of stipple, in which a multitude of carefully placed dots — sometimes of varying size — coalesce visually to create tone. It’s a technique adapted to the relatively low resolution of newspaper printing, in which the artist has more control over…
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Eye candy for Today: Jan de Beijer ink and wash drawing
Grebbesluis, Jan de Beijer Ink and wash, roughly 4 1/2 x 12 (120x30cm). In the Rijksmuseum. With clear observation, economical delineation and a few simple tones, 18th century draftsmana nd painter Jan de Beijer gives us an evocative semi-panoramic scene. It looks to me like the right side of the drawing may have been cut…
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Luigi Loir
I’ve written previously about three of the four late 19th and early 20th century painters whose styles are sometimes called “Parisianism”, or more simply “Painters of Paris”, Eugéne Galien Laloue, Edouard-Léon Cortès and Antoine Blanchard. Never a formal group, these were just painters working in slightly different times, with similar intentions and shared influences. They…
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Olivia Knapp
Olivia Knapp is an artist based in Washington State who transitioned from work as a textile designer to full time pursuit of her pen and ink drawing. Knapp takes inspiration for her engraving-like approach to pen and ink —often done with Pigma Micron markers — from the classical styles of the baroque masters ink drawing…