The hard edges of 1920s design were cut out of metal, not drawn by hand. Which is why a straight edge beats a steady hand every time.
Lino does not reward a careful line. It rewards a decision. 109 designs bold enough to survive the first cut, and one sheet to start from tonight.
A printmaker lost 188 sketchbooks in one afternoon and walked straight back out for 102 days. Winter hands over its shapes: here are 53 of them, in pen.
In 1900 the man who wrote Oz published a snowstorm recipe: cotton wool, mica and 4 pounds of goose-down. Fake frost was the product. 93 to trace.
13 people who drew for a living, 1 evening, and 39 cards that will not look like anybody else’s.
The hardest part of wood burning is not the burner. It is owning a line worth transferring — 95 designs, sorted by what tonight actually needs.
A tangle of lines is not a failed drawing. It is the only thing a blank page cannot give you: something for the eye to argue with.
An eraser turns every drawing into an argument. A ballpoint ends it early: the next line simply wins, and the drawing gets on with things.
An Art Nouveau stem moves like a garden hose flicked across a lawn: out wide, then back on itself. 7 artists show exactly where the pen goes.
Museum plant plates were drafted in pencil the way a letter is drafted before the envelope. The ink was always the easy part.