Category: Pen & Ink
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Eye Candy for Today: Bloemaert tree studies
Studies of Two Pollard Willows, Abraham Bloemaert Pen and brown ink with watercolor. Roughly 8×12 inches (20x30cm). In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Simple, direct and beautifully economical observation from nature. Not a superfluous line.
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Eye Candy for Today: Paul Sandby ink and wash drawing
View in Windsor Park, Paul Sandby Pen and brown ink, gray wash, over a graphite underdrawing. 13 3/16 x 20 1/4 in. (335 x 515 mm). In the Morgan Library & Museum. Click Zoom, then use Full Screen and zoom controls under image. Info at left.
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My article in the Spring 2014 issue of Drawing Magazine
I’ve written another article for Drawing magazine. This one appears in the new Spring 2014 issue, that is now in bookstores and newsstands. In the article, titled “Fresh Ink”, I profile seven contemporary artists working in ink, in a variety of approaches and styles. This even includes “digital ink”, in the drawings of Marcos Mateu-Mestre,…
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Eye Candy for Today: Gibson ink drawings
Various drawings, Charles Dana Gibson From the Toronto Public Library. Gibson was one of the great masters of pen and ink and a major early figure in “Golden Age” illustration. Look at the head of the “Gibson Girl” the center, and the variety of lines, from the short, fine pen strokes around the eyes and…
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Ben Sack
Benjamin Sack creates wonderfully complex large scale drawings of imaginary cities, often in detailed, map-like projections. There is a fascinating video on YouTube that steps through his process in filling out the drawing shown above, top (with detail). I particularly like his fun take on Van Gogh’s The Starry Night (above, bottom, with detail). In…