FPN's PEN ART GALLERY

[zemof]

it’s really awesome seeing all these wonderful works…especially those of @MatiasA @lambretta88 and @pictogramax!!

 

i’m trying to pick up sketching as well for a few reasons:

 

- a paper hoarder like me needs to relieve her stocks once every few years

- gotta put those pens and inks to use (for excuses to get more!)

- going on a month-long backpack to Taiwan in April and journaling in calligraphy can get too tedious so some watercolour sketches could be good…

 

albeit late to start learning but i’ve hooked up with an Urban Sketcher friend so i’m pretty excited to start! hope that i can share some doodles here soon too…!

[Tas]

Not much of the old Blandy's Madeira left

http://www.taskyprianou.com/fpn_blandys.jpg

The usual suspects:
Pen - Visconti Homo Sapiens Bronze EF
Ink - 3 parts R&K Sepia, 1 part Diamine Grey, 1 part Noodler's Bulletproof Back

Edited February 4, 2014 by Tas

[phipwood]

Some Doodles whilst I was waiting in Saudi departure lounge at 1:00 am

[amberleadavis]

@Phip - Welcome aboard. Nice doodles.

 

@Tas, the things you can do with Visconti....

[carretera18]

Not much of the old Blandy's Madeira left

 

 

 

The usual suspects:

Pen - Visconti Homo Sapiens Bronze EF

Ink - 3 parts R&K Sepia, 1 part Diamine Grey, 1 part Noodler's Bulletproof Back

 

Amazing sckecth and I love the custom color! Very classy!

 

Some Doodles whilst I was waiting in Saudi departure lounge at 1:00 am

 

Great doodles! Thanks for sharing!

[Nigh Means Near]

this also done decades back ...

 

a copy from a picture, given to my wife when we were courting then ....

Osmiroid sketchpen + Pelikan Brilliant Black + copier paper ...

This is a gorgeous drawing. Thanks for sharing it.

[Nigh Means Near]

Hi,

This is a sketch of an old church in the woods of the Pocono Mountains. I photographed it, sketched it in pencil on a piece of bristol and inked it, and added detail, with a crow quill nib and possibly Daler Rowney India ink.

Not done with a FP...don't know if its a no-no..if so I apologize in advance.

Best,

Paul

Really nice work. Architecture renders so well in pen and ink.

[Nigh Means Near]

Copied from the Clark scrapbook. Merry Christmas and happy new year to all FPNers.

 

This is beautiful work. You've really manged to combine stark readability with an ambiguity of form. That's quite the feat.

[Nigh Means Near]

There are so many beautiful drawings here that to respond to each would be spamming the thread. Over all the quality of work here is excellent. Here's my humble contribution to this excellent collection. I feel that I work in a style that is a bit tighter than many pen and ink artists; my day job is in a tattoo shop, so precision is, obviously, quite important there. All of these are on padding board, which despite it's cheapness, I just love to draw on (partly I love the zeitgheist of drawing on a post consumet material). I hope you enjoy my contribution as much as I've enjoyed yours.

[Just I]

There are so many beautiful drawings here that to respond to each would be spamming the thread. Over all the quality of work here is excellent. Here's my humble contribution to this excellent collection. I feel that I work in a style that is a bit tighter than many pen and ink artists; my day job is in a tattoo shop, so precision is, obviously, quite important there. All of these are on padding board, which despite it's cheapness, I just love to draw on (partly I love the zeitgheist of drawing on a post consumet material). I hope you enjoy my contribution as much as I've enjoyed yours.

Absolutely beautiful work! I love the dramatic shading and line work on the portrait and the fish are exquisite!

[Nigh Means Near]

Glad you like them Just I. Thanks for taking the time to check them out.

[henkm]

There are so many beautiful drawings here that to respond to each would be spamming the thread. Over all the quality of work here is excellent. Here's my humble contribution to this excellent collection. I feel that I work in a style that is a bit tighter than many pen and ink artists; my day job is in a tattoo shop, so precision is, obviously, quite important there. All of these are on padding board, which despite it's cheapness, I just love to draw on (partly I love the zeitgheist of drawing on a post consumet material). I hope you enjoy my contribution as much as I've enjoyed yours.

 

They're all nice but, being a trumpet player myself, I really like the Chet Baker.

[Nigh Means Near]

I used to play as well, though not lately. He just has such an amazing face to draw. So many textures and convolutions. I've oil painted him as well. Musically, I think Chet Baker is superb, but my all time favourite trumpet player has to be Kenny Wheeler.

[Inkydinkydog]

This is my first pen and ink drawing, so it is not going to be any where near Mattias's work but...............................

 

Much of the text was inserted thru OpenOffice editing, and doing the "coloring book" thing then filling, other parts were free-hand, the tomb and cross, and blood drop.

 

CROSS_AND_TOMB.jpg

 

 

Doc

Nicely done concerning an important message.

[Tasmith]

Here are some recent ones of mine. A bit of one-perspective work. My own work is taking on a bit of a flair from Schinkel and I have included a drawing of one of my favorite works of his, die Neue Wache.

http://i1287.photobucket.com/albums/a629/Kevin_Keller/SCAN0021_zps1388febf.jpg

http://i1287.photobucket.com/albums/a629/Kevin_Keller/SCAN0019_zpsdaf2d97d.jpg

http://i1287.photobucket.com/albums/a629/Kevin_Keller/SCAN0020_zps7207e121.jpg

http://i1287.photobucket.com/albums/a629/Kevin_Keller/photo_zps633e2ada.jpg

Very nice!

[camoandconcrete]

Thank you Tasmith, I appreciate it!

[TMLee]

Thanks "Nigh Means Near' ,

 

I like your drawings of them fishes.

Very crisp.

Well delineated.

 

Is there a reason for the mouth of one of them fishes?

It looks stylised - like metal ?

 

There seems to be this rendition repeated in some of your fishes...

 

I dunno , maybe i am looking at it wrong

 

But keep posting,

nice work.

 

And what is the brown paper medium they were drawn on?

seems very dark.

What is it?

 

[Nigh Means Near]

I've always liked the faceted kind of look. It's not necessarily realistic, but it reads in 3 dimensions well, so it integrates really effectively. They're actually not on paper at all. It's just on padding board (the same card material on the back of a rhodia dot pad and the like). I like the texture of it for drawing, and I like the zeitgeist of drawing on a post consumer material. Thanks for taking an interest.

[vikrmbedi]

here are a few of my attempts at fountain pen art.

http://i.imgur.com/TaPfMLU.jpg

 

http://i.imgur.com/MbJBdw4.jpg

 

http://i.imgur.com/h0Z6xsL.jpg

 

http://i.imgur.com/lseQKLC.jpg

[Guest Ray Cornett]

If you have Facebook PLEASE join my fountain pen art group. All art is done strictly with fountain pens. What you fill the pens with is up to you. Some do water colors and such even.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1473881566164337/

I was sitting here at about 4:30 am and lately I had this basic idea for a drawing. All that came to mine was a triangle and swirl lines. I took out my pens and just decided to see what happens. Starting with the triangle. Everything else just sort of happened as it wanted. I ended up having 4 eyes in the drawing. Two of them are very small and hard to see(top inside the loop). 3 ink colors, 5 pens.Not sure if it is finished or not........

Paper: Georgia Pacific 24 pound premium inkjet&laser paper.

Inks: Diamine Rustic Red, Noodler's Black Eel, and Rohrer and Klingner blau permanent.
Pens: Sheaffer Touchdown Statesman fine nib, Esterbrook dollar pen fine or extra fine nib?, Sheaffer Fineline medium nib, Sheaffer 550 with inlaid medium 14k nib, Baoer 707 with medium nib.

Edited March 20, 2014 by Ray Cornett