Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Pen & Ink

  • Noli Novak

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    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…

  • Kathryn Rathke

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    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…

  • Alice in Wonderland Illustrations

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    “…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…

  • Editorial Drawings of Winsor McCay

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    Even among fans of his comic art masterpiece, Little Nemo in Slumberland (a group of whom I count myself an ardent member), few people are aware of the editorial cartoons of Winsor McCay. During his stints as cartoonist for The Cincinnati Enquirer and The New York Herald, and through syndicated work for the Hearst papers,…

  • Black & White ImageS: The Fifth Special Collection

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    We are jaded by an abundance of color images. Dazzled, distracted and spoiled by color’s overt and often brash appeal, we can easily lose sight of the sublime pleasures to be had in the appreciation of black and white artwork. There is a visual charm and magic to black and white images that is difficult…

  • David Levine

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    David Levine was one of the great caricaturists of the 20th Century. He is best known for his drawings of notable figures published in The New York Review of Books over the course of more than 40 years. The NYRB web site has a gallery of over 2,500 of his drawings that can be browsed…