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  • Nicolas Delort (update)

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    Nicolas Delort is a Canadian/French illustrator who I wrote about in early 2013, and featured in the article on contemporary ink artists I wrote for the Spring 2014 issue of Drawing Magazine. Since then, Delort has revised and updated his blog and website, adding a number of striking new images done in his beautiful ink…

  • Tim Foley (update)

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    Tim Foley is a long-established freelance illustrator based in Michigan, who I profiled back in 2009. His clients include The Wall Street Journal, Consumer Reports, Barrons, Penguin Books, Harper Collins and Dover Publications, among others. Though he also works in paint, pastel and other drawing media, Foley’s primary medium is colored scratchboard. Scratchboard often invites…

  • My article in the Spring 2014 issue of Drawing Magazine

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    I’ve written another article for Drawing magazine. This one appears in the new Spring 2014 issue, that is now in bookstores and newsstands. In the article, titled “Fresh Ink”, I profile seven contemporary artists working in ink, in a variety of approaches and styles. This even includes “digital ink”, in the drawings of Marcos Mateu-Mestre,…

  • My article for the Summer 2013 issue of Drawing Magazine

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    I was delighted recently to have the opportunity to write a feature article for the Summer 2013 issue of Drawing Magazine. As of this writing the issue is available from the North Light Store, and should be in bookstores and newsstands shortly. The article, Illustrating Imaginary Worlds, highlights four contemporary illustrators who work in the…

  • Patrick Arrasmith (update)

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    Since I first wrote about illustrator Patrick Arrasmith back in 2008, he has become best known as the illustrator of the Last Apprentice series by Joseph Delaney. Arrasmith works in the difficult but rewarding medium of scratchboard, in which line and tone are created by scratching black ink from the surface of clay-coated board on…

  • Douglas Smith

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    There is something special about the appeal of scratchboard. In skilled hands it can combine some of the visual charm of woodcuts or engravings with the best characteristics of pen and ink. The work of Douglas Smith is a prime example of the medium’s strengths. Smith is an illustrator, originally from New York, who established…