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Category: Pen & Ink

  • Shitao

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    Shitao (Yuanji Shih T’ao, original name Zhu Rueji) was a Chinese painter of the early Quing period, active in the late 1600’s. Shitao was a member of Ming royalty, and survived the fall of that house to invaders from Manchuria, changed his name and became a Buddhist monk. He is classed as an “individualist” painter.…

  • Bill Watterson

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    I’m not going to attempt to write an appreciation of Calvin and Hobbes here, I don’t have the time or the room. I’ll simply say that if, for some bizarre reason, you’re unfamiliar with the greatest comic strip of the last quarter of the 20th Century (and one of the best for that entire century,…

  • Pen Drawing by Charles Maginnis on Project Gutenberg

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    I love pen and ink drawing. It has a visual charm and character unlike any other medium. I assume that I came by my affection for it from realizing as a teenager that pen and ink drawing was the basis for comic books and cartoons, but I was also exposed at a pretty early age…

  • Walt Reed and Illustration House

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    Illustration House is a venerable gallery, repository and auction house in New York that specializes in great illustration. It is the province of Walt Reed, who is probably the foremost expert on illustration that we have. Reed is also the author of numerous definitive books on the subject, including The Illustrator in America, 1860-2000, Visions…

  • Patrick Arrasmith

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    There is something particularly appealing about images created by an artist who is strongly skilled in the medium of scratchboard. This slightly arcane and quite demanding medium is the through-the-looking-glass version of pen and ink; in which black ink is taken away from the coating on a clay-surfaced board, and the image is built from…

  • The Vadeboncoeur Collection of ImageS

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    I’ll let you in on a little secret. Some of you may be under the impression from my posts on the subject that I’m an expert on the field and history of illustration, but that’s not the case. I simply know a little bit about some terrific illustrators that I’ve come across over the years.…