Category: Pen & Ink
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Eye Candy for Today: Franklin Booth ink drawing
Echoes, Franklin Booth From The Golden Age Site blog, where you will find lots more. See my previous posts on Franklin Booth here on Lines and Colors.
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Eye Candy for Today: three Howard Pyle drawings
Today marks the birthday of the great American painter, illustrator and master of pen and ink, Howard Pyle. These three drawings, illustrations for one of Pyle’s own books, are in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which has high-resolution images of them. I’ve provided the titles and links to the images on the…
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Matthew Cook (update)
In many ways, all art is about selection. Whether representational or non-representational, imaginary or abstracted from reality — visual art is about choices of what to show and what not to show. So, for that matter, is writing, music and all other forms of communication and expression. Ever since bottom-line mandates turned “news” into “infotainment”,…
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Otto Björnik
Illustrator Otto Björnik combines a charming drawing style with intricate line work in his whimsical drawings. He contrasts areas of white with areas of texture and detail to lead the viewer’s eye through his compositions. Occasionally, he augments his pen and ink work with color, as in his pieces done for Yahoo (above, bottom). In…
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British Library image trove
The British Library has uploaded to Flickr over one million public domain images from 17th, 18th and 19th century books. Starting next year, they will enlist the participation of the web in describing enough of the images to give the automated cataloguing systems a start. There is an article about the project here. The images…
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Urban Sketchers blog turns 5
The Urban Sketchers blog, which I first wrote about in 2008, just marked its 5th anniversary (the corresponding Flickr group is about a year older). There are sketches from contributors around the world to this blog, the tagline of which is: “See the world one drawing at a time”. In addition to pencils, pens, markers…