Category: Pen & Ink
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Eye Candy for Today: Canaletto’s Capriccio with monumental staircase
A capriccio with a monumental staircase, Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal) Pen and ink with gray wash, roughly 14 x 21 inches ( 36 x 53 cm). Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Royal Collection, which also has a a zoomable version and a…
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CJ Hendry
I have to say that I’m consistently unimpressed with most of the “amazing photorealist drawings” that seem to proliferate as click-bait around the web, but the large scale pen drawings of Australian artist CJ Hendry are a notable exception. Hendry takes as her primary subjects fashion items — designer shoes and handbags in particular —…
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Yutang Yang (update)
Yutang Yang is an artist from northeastern China who I first wrote about in 2008, and later featured as one of the seven contemporary ink artists I profiled in my article for the Spring 2014 issue of Drawing magazine. He works in dip pen and carbon based ink on paper, using hatching to create beautifully…
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Eye Candy for Today: Karl Friedrich Schinkel pen lithograph
Das Schloss Prediama in Crein XII Stund: von Triest (The Castle of Predjama in Carniola, Twelve Hours from Trieste), Karl Friedrich Schinkel In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Use zoom or download icons below the image. This striking print by the German artist, active in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, is a pen…
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Kent Barton (update)
Kent Barton is an illustrator who works in scratchboard, as well as linocut and woodcut. His images carry echoes of graphic processes used in illustration in the past, while maintaining a very up to date sensibility. At times he adds color to his line work, applied with a light touch and an eye to keeping…
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Eye Candy for Today: John Brown’s Cave of Dionysius
The Cave of Dionysius, Syracuse; John Brown In the Morgan Library and Museum, NY. Use the zoom feature or download link. Pen and brown ink, approximately 18 x 11 inches (46 x 27 cm). A wonderful sense of light and texture is carried throughout the drawing. It’s a fascinating composition in which the subject, though…