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unusual facts about Pen and Ink



Hatching

Twenty-first century artist Larry D. Alexander has created and developed a large body of Pen and Ink Drawings using the crosshatching technique since the early 1990s.

Joseph Clement Coll

He was known for his pen and ink story illustrations that were used to illustrate adventure stories such as Arthur Conan Doyle's Sir Nigel.


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Bal Patil

Bal Patil drew many pen and ink sketches of noted personalities such as George Bernard Shaw, Bertrand Russell, Socrates, Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi and Lata Mangeshkar, Lal Bahadur Shastri and Kamaraj among others.

David Macaulay

His first book, Cathedral (1973), was a history, extensively illustrated with pen-and-ink drawings, of the construction of a fictitious but representative Gothic cathedral.

Figure drawing

A favored method of Watteau and other 17th- and 18th-century artists of the Baroque and Rococo era was to start with a colored ground of tone halfway between white and black, and to add shade in black and highlights in white, using pen and ink or "crayon".

Floyd Sonnier

An internationally acclaimed pen-and-ink artist, he specialized in drawings depicting Cajun culture, lifestyle and family, particularly scenes from the first half of the 20th century.

Joyce Carlson

Carlson created a pen-and-ink portfolio of her sketches several months after she began working at Disney, and presented it to her employers.

Paul Reinman

By his early twenties, he was creating pen-and-ink drawings of such subjects as the Rashi Synagogue, which was shortly afterward destroyed by the Nazis.

Rosemarie Koczy

In 1980, Koczy accepted a fellowship to the MacDowell Colony and had begun to create pen-and-ink drawings memorializing the victims of the Shoah, which numbered over 12,000 at the time of her death from cancer.

The Silent Gondoliers

Paul Giovanopoulos provided 20 pen-and-ink illustrations for the story.

Thomas Geoffry Lucas

By this date he had come under the influence of Percy Dearmer: the frontispiece to the 1907 edition of the latter's The Parson's Handbook was a pen-and-ink drawing by Lucas which showed an English altar of the type promoted by Sir Ninian Comper and Dearmer.

Toby Tyler; or, Ten Weeks with a Circus

The original book contains 30 pen and ink drawings by W. A. Rogers (1854-1931).

Zachary Johnson

In 2009 Johnson completed an alternate poster for The Brothers Bloom which featured his signature pen and ink moleskin drawings.