Friday, May 03, 2024
JOSEPH CLEMENT COLL: THE ENEMY OF CROSS HATCHING
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I've said some unkind things here about cross hatching-- those intersecting lines that are used to add tone to a drawing. Artists who as...
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Monday, April 29, 2024
ONE LOVELY DRAWING, part 73
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I love Frederic Gruger's drawing of a confrontation between a Russian princess and a group of leering Bolshevik invaders. Gruger was fam...
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Monday, April 22, 2024
ONE LOVELY DRAWING, part 72
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This drawing by James Montgomery Flagg is as confident and brash as Flagg himself. The drawing is large-- nearly 30 inches (76 cm) and appea...
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Wednesday, April 17, 2024
ONE LOVELY DRAWING , part 71
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Franklin Booth (1874-1948) learned to draw by studying wood engravings in magazines while he was growing up on a farm in Indiana. He mistak...
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Saturday, April 06, 2024
MEN MUST ADVENTURE AND WOMEN MUST WEEP
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The stories in comics, pulp magazines, science fiction and fantasy were never subtle about the proper roles for men and women. Here is Flas...
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Friday, March 22, 2024
WHAT ALICE MOLLON UNDERSTANDS ABOUT INK
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There's a long tradition of wars with-- and about-- ink: (The Ink Battle by Utagawa Kuniyoshi 1843) Ink has left a trail of rivalry, br...
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