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Christ at Rest, by Hans Holbein the Younger, 1519, a chiaroscuro drawing using pen, ink, and brush, washes, white heightening, on ochre prepared paper. The term chiaroscuro originated during the Renaissance as drawing on coloured paper, where the artist worked from the paper's base tone toward light using white gouache, and toward dark using ink, bodycolour or watercolour.
Tolkien's illustrations contributed to the effectiveness of his writings, though much of his oeuvre remained unpublished in his lifetime. However, the first British edition of The Hobbit in 1937 was published with ten of his black-and-white drawings. [1] In addition, it had as its frontispiece Tolkien's drawing The Hill: Hobbiton-across-the-Water.
Black and white chalk on paper: 19.5 x 23.4 cm: Nationalmuseum, Stockholm: The drawing is related to the painting W130 : Old Man Leaning on a Stick: 1632–1635: Pen and brown ink: 13.5 x 7.8 cm: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: The drawing is related to the etching B133 : Study for Drunk Lot: 1633: Black chalk on paper: 25.1 x 18.9 cm ...
White often represents purity or innocence in Western culture, [2] particularly as white clothing or objects, can be stained easily. In most Western countries white is the color worn by brides at weddings. Angels are typically depicted as clothed in white robes. In many Hollywood Westerns, bad cowboys wear black hats while the good ones wear white.
Aubrey Vincent Beardsley (/ ˈ b ɪər d z l i / BEERDZ-lee; 21 August 1872 – 16 March 1898) was an English illustrator and author. His black ink drawings were influenced by Japanese woodcuts, and depicted the grotesque, the decadent, and the erotic.
List of drawings by Vincent van Gogh is an incomplete collection of drawings by the Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) that form an important part of his complete body of work. The listing is ordered by year and then by catalogue number. While more accurate dating of Van Gogh's work is often difficult.