Category: Pen & Ink
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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…
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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”,…