Category: Pen & Ink
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Jean-Pierre Gibrat
Jean-Pierre Gibrat is a French comics artist and writer noted for his graphic historical novels set during wartimes in France. He gained the attention of American readers of European comics with the translated version of his 2002-2005 graphic novel, Flight of the Raven, set in Paris during the WWII occupation. The book is beautiful, filled…
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Eye Candy for Today: Jacob de Gheyn pen drawing
Chestnut Tree with some trees around it, Jacob de Gheyn (II) Ink and chalk drawing, roughly 15 x 10 inches (36 x 25 cm), in the collection of the Rijksmuseum, which has a zoomable version on the website. You can download high-res images if you get a free Rijksstudio account. Dutch painter and printmaker jacob…
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Hendrick Goltzius, The Resurrection
The Resurrection, from The Passion of Christ, Hendrik Goltzius, Engraving, roughly 8 x 5 inches (20 x 13 cm), in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Hendrick Goltzius was a German born Dutch printmaker, draftsman and painter active in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. Among his other accomplishments was a folio…
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John Donohue’s “All the Restaurants in New York”
Since 2017, New York based artist and writer John Donohue has been pursuing his — admittedly unlikely — quest to draw all of the restaurants in New York City (estimated to number around 24,000, not counting ongoing closings and openings). He takes this on by sketching on location in pen and ink, without preliminary pencil…
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Eye Candy for Today: Franklin Booth pen and ink advertising illustration
Ad for Etsy Organ in House and Garden, Franklin Booth American artist Franklin Booth, who was active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, was known for his marvelously intricate pen and ink illustrations, a style that came largely from the young artist confusing images in magazines that were done in wood engraving with…
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José Naranja
Among followers of “urban sketching”, there is an often associated practice known as “journaling”, or the keeping of a visual diary of one’s travels, day to day activities or random thoughts and ideas. The idea of visual journals or diaries is nothing new, of course, but the current popularity of the practice, and the ability…