Category: Pen & Ink
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Paul Madonna: All Over Coffee
“Predictable” is a word that, sadly, often applies to the contents of modern newspaper comics pages (what remains of them). In February of 2004 readers of the San Francisco Chronicle suddenly found themselves confronted with a new feature on the comics page, “All Over Coffee” by Paul Madonna, that set that notion nicely askew. As…
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Mary Sprague
Aside from the human figure, trees are some of the natural forms artists find most interesting, and they have been drawn and painted in a myriad ways. St Louis artist Mary Sprague creates ink drawings, sometimes in colors, often monochromatic, in which delicate sprays of line and hatching coalesce to create her tree forms. When…
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William Stout: Hallucinations
Long time readers of Lines and Colors will know that I have long been an admirer of the work of William Stout. Stout is well know as a paleontological artist, film concept designer, illustrator and comics artist. His style ranges as widely as his areas of endeavor, but I take particular pleasure in his ink…
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Noli Novak
In drawing, particularly pen and ink drawing, stipple refers to the painstaking technique of creating tones by laying down areas of dots, the density of which creates areas of varying tone. It’s almost a handmade analog to the pre-printing screening of photographs, though the technique long preceded photography. Stipple was important to classic illustrators, such…
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Kathryn Rathke
I’m just guessing, but I have a notion that Seattle based illustrator Kathryn Rathke’s early fascination with art may have coincided with an interest in hand calligraphy. Her drawings, both black and white and color, are based on wonderfully calligraphic lines — dancing, looping and jogging across the page; at times almost seeming to construct…
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Alice in Wonderland Illustrations
“…and what is the use of a book,” thought Alice, “without pictures or conversations?” I used the quote above, from the first paragraph of Lewis Carroll’s classic and newly popular story, as a preface to the “Dead Tree Edition” of my webcomic, ArgonZark! when it was published in 1997. I felt it was a perfect…