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Category: Pen & Ink

  • David Johnson portraits

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    I wrote about illustrator David Johnson in June of last year. At the time I particularly admired his portraits, wonderfully composed of contrasting areas of intricate line and carefully arranged open shapes. Johnson has launched a Tumblr blog on which he is posting a series of the portraits, titled A Portrait a Day Keeps Myself…

  • Mathew Borrett

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    Mathew Borrett is a Canadian illustrator and visual effects artist who works with architectural illustration and also creates wild and sometimes elaborate imagined structures, some underground, some in cityscapes. His underground structures, with their maze-like and Escher influenced explorations of divided space, may have grown out of his more traditional architectural subjects, some of which…

  • Whistler’s etchings (round 2)

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    Etchings, for me, have a kind of visual magic. There is something about the character of etched lines that is entrancing in a way quite distinct from other forms of drawing or graphics. I find it hard to isolate exactly why. Partly, I suppose, it’s the fine line available with an etching needle and carefully…

  • Aaron Horkey

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    Aaron Horkey is an artist and designer from Minnesota whose intricate, richly detailed images can be both beautiful and disconcerting simultaneously. Horkey has designed and illustrated posters, album covers, skateboard graphics, magazine covers and clothing designs as well as creating graphics for reproduction as limited edition prints. Unfortunately, he doesn’t seem to have a dedicated…

  • Franklin Booth (update)

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    Franklin Booth was a great American Illustrator and one of art history’s masters of the medium of pen and ink. Booth grew up on a farm in Indiana in the late 1800’s. Innocently misunderstanding the printing technology of the time, he developed his style by copying what he thought were pen and ink illustrations in…

  • Ricardo Martinez

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    As I’ve pointed out in several previous posts, scratchboard, despite its close relationship to pen and ink, is a medium with its own distinct characteristics, and to my eye a particular visual charm. There’s just something about a well done scratchboard drawing, the patterns of white lines against black, that grabs my attention and lends…