Tag: Pen and Ink

  • The New King

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    Symbolism The New King is a symbolic gestalt. It continues themes I began exploring in A Sprig of Mistletoe, The Family Tree, The Hour Glass of Saturn and a few unpublished drawings. It blends alchemical and  heraldic motifs to create a feeling of nobility. This drawing is another experiment with water color. One of the…

  • Aquatic

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    A Creature Lately I have been captivated by the peculiar. This is part of the reason for the long interim between this and my last project. Some of the things I have been working on in the meantime are too strange to publish. I wanted this drawing to convey a bublbousnous of the optical anatomy.…

  • Under the Sea

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  • Mushroom Cloud

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    The End of the Year What better way is there to end the year than with fireworks? This pen and ink drawing was made in my canson mixed media sketchbook. The thick lines were drawn with a Jin Hao 159 and the thin lines were drawn with a Pilot Metropolitan. I was very nearly done…

  • Deer Skull

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    The Bone Yard When I was a child one of the fist activities my grandparents wanted to show me was hiking. They took me up into the mountains to explore with a cattle bell around my neck to keep track of me and my cousins, whilst scaring away the monstrous creatures lurking in the woods.…

  • Jellyfish Revisited

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    Amorphous Sometimes I spend weeks exploring the same subject. The series of German castles I drew is a good example of this. I tried to draw the same types of lines in different ways with great repetition so that by the end I felt I had some mastery over that method of drawing. Castles are…

  • Drifter

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    An excursion into color Somewhere drifting in an endless abyss there is a creature with an amorphous body and no face . It’s covered in tentacles and its generations extend across the ages. Jellyfish without the innocent context of Bikini Bottom are like Lovecraftian horrors. More like mushrooms than fish. I can remember the first…

  • German Castles

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    Remnants The Castles of Germany have have been witness to some of the greatest moments in European history. They have been present for developments in science, weddings of nobles, and stood the test of time through war and peace. They have been lodges for chivalric orders that exert there influence on world affairs to this…

  • I Like Broad Nibs,

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    Breaking in a new fountain pen is one of the most satisfying experiences in art making. It starts as a stiff unrefined experience as the tines slowly begin to flex at a nearly imperceptable magnitude, and ink flows out onto the paper for the first time. It stops it and sputters the feed needs properly…

  • Waves

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    Prestidigitation “You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup. When you pour water in a bottle, it becomes the bottle. When you pour water in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Water can drip and it can crash. Become like water my friend.” – Bruce…