Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Pen & Ink

  • Otto Björnik

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    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…

  • British Library image trove

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    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…

  • Urban Sketchers blog turns 5

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    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…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Canaletto drawing

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    Architectural Capriccio, Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal) Pen and brown ink, with gray wash, over graphite and traces of black chalk, 11 1/4 x 8 1/16 inches (286 x 204 mm) Wow, I just love drawings like this — simultaneously loose and gestural and pinned to geometrically solid draftsmanship. What a brilliant use of warm brown…

  • My new post on Virgil Finlay for Tor.com

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    I’m happy to report that I’ve contributed my second post to the Tor.com website. I wrote for them on May on the Fleisher Superman Cartoons. In the new article, The Dark and Light of Virgil Finlay, I give an overview of the great science fiction, fantasy and horror illustrator who had such an impact on…

  • Patrick Arrasmith (update)

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    Since I first wrote about illustrator Patrick Arrasmith back in 2008, he has become best known as the illustrator of the Last Apprentice series by Joseph Delaney. Arrasmith works in the difficult but rewarding medium of scratchboard, in which line and tone are created by scratching black ink from the surface of clay-coated board on…