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INK DRAWING IMPLEMENTS

Reed Pens

Bamboo

FeatherQuill Pen

Brass “Dip” PenBrush

Papyrus

Mulberry Paper

Traditional PAPERS used for ink drawing:

PAPYRUS (plant leaf), MULBERRY ( tree bark) SILK (insect cocoons) COTTON RAG VELLUM (animal skin)

Modern WOOD PULP paper dates from the 19th c.

Silk

Victor Hugo (sepia)

Traditional Inks:

•Lamp black: soot or burned bone with animal hide glue or shellac binder

•Sepia: ink from cuttlefish, chemically melanin

•Iron gall: iron salts with tannin from gall nuts

Drawing INK has been used in Egypt from @ 2500 BC, in China from 1700 BC or earlier and inIndia at least since 4th c. BC.

Albrecht Durer (sepia ink)

Vincent Van Gogh (iron gall ink)

PEN AND INK TECHNIQUESPEN AND INK TECHNIQUES

Alice Neel

CONTOURLINEDRAWING

Philip Guston

Moriceau and Mrzyk

HATCHING/ CROSS HATCHING

Pablo Picasso

Rick Lyon

STIPPLING

Scientific Illustrations

Frank Lobdel PEN AND INK WITH INK WASH

RobertLongo

(charcoal, graphite and ink)

Peter Wentworth-Sheilds

Jonathan Borofsky

RESERVED WHITE

StevenCerio

Leonardo DaVinciink and chalk

Ink andColor

Gala Bent

Ink and color

How can

SPACESPACEbe portrayed in a

2-dimensional drawing?*

*overlapping shapes, diminishing sizes of shapes, perspective, foreshortening, aerial perspective, shading for volume, value contrast

Mark Kostabi

SPACE: OVERLAPPING SHAPES

Alberto Gomez Pereira

Ernesto Caivano

detail ofJapanese scroll,brush and ink

SPACE:diminishingsizes of objects in the distance

Noteforeground,middle-ground,background.

William T. Wiley pen/ ink and watercolor

SPACE: (linear) perspective

“Mars Architecture” by Stefan Davidovici

RobertAdam

SPACE: Atmospheric (aerial) perspective(distant objects are lighter in value and lack detail)

SPACE:shading for volume /dimension (hatching, cross-hatching, stippling)

Tom Otternesssketch for sculpture

Robert Brackman

Toyin Odutola

Leonard Baskin

James Abbey

SPACE:value contrast

Nicholas Di Genova

Raymond Pettibone ink drawing

SPACE: foreshortening

BruceConner Ink-blot drawing