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    With Pen & Ink: Expanded Edition
    With Pen & Ink: Expanded Edition
    With Pen & Ink: Expanded Edition
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    With Pen & Ink: Expanded Edition

    By James Hall and Jeff A. Menges

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    Educator and artist James Hall draws upon his extensive teaching experience to demonstrate how to develop a successful approach to the use of pen and ink. His two-part treatment addresses both decorative and pictorial drawing. Starting with outlines, composing, and the use of solids and hatching, Hall progresses to the renderings for more advanced practitioners of still lifes, architecture, and figures. A great companion for beginners, this volume can help develop a casual interest into a rewarding pastime. The clear, well-illustrated directions offer a "work at your own pace" method that builds in complexity with the reader's progress.
    This expanded edition updates the original publication's century-old materials list, reflecting the currently available products that best support these traditional skills. Also included are additional gallery samples, selected from the author's original list of exemplary sources, for guidance and inspiration to assist in learning from these timeless teachings.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDover Publications
    Release dateJun 17, 2020
    ISBN9780486847467
    With Pen & Ink: Expanded Edition
    Author

    James Hall

    JAMES W. HALL is an Edgar and Shamus Award-winning author whose books have been translated into a dozen languages. He divides his time between South Florida and North Carolina.

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      With Pen & Ink - James Hall

      Copyright

      Copyright © 2020 by Dover Publications, Inc.

      Foreword Copyright © 2020 by Jeff A. Menges

      All rights reserved.

      Bibliographical Note

      This Dover edition, first published in 2020, is an unabridged republication of the work originally published by The Prang Company, New York, in 1913. The present edition has been expanded with a gallery of additional illustrations selected by Jeff A. Menges, who has also written a Foreword for the modern reader.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: Hall, James, 1869–1917, author. | Menges, Jeff A., editor.

      Title: With pen & ink /James Hall; foreword for the modern reader by Jeff A. Menges.

      Other titles: With pen and ink

      Description: Expanded edition. | Mineola, New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 2020. | Includes bibliographical references.

      Identifiers: LCCN 2019054444 | ISBN 9780486841922 (paperback)

      Subjects: LCSH: Pen drawing—Technique.

      Classification: LCC NC905 .H18 2020 | DDC 741.2/6—dc23

      LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019054444

      Manufactured in the United States by LSC Communications

      84192801

      www.doverpublications.com

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      CONTENTS

      FOREWORD FOR THE MODERN READER by Jeff A. Menges

      PREFACE by James Hall

      INTRODUCTION, INCLUDING MATERIALS, by James Hall

      DECORATIVE PEN DRAWINGS

      FIRST PROBLEM

      To draw in pure outline a typical leaf or other nature subject

      SECOND PROBLEM

      To utilize pure outline in decorative arrangements applied to initials, head and foot pieces, and book plates

      THIRD PROBLEM

      To draw plant forms in outline and solid black

      FOURTH PROBLEM

      To apply outline and black to decorative arrangements of the types considered in the second problem

      FIFTH PROBLEM

      To apply outline and black to a simple architectural subject

      SIXTH PROBLEM

      To apply outline and black to a figure subject with accessories

      SEVENTH PROBLEM

      To make a cover design in outline and black, using a decorative floral panel with the necessary lettering

      EIGHTH PROBLEM

      To make a cover design in outline and black by surrounding the panel containing the necessary lettering with a border varying in width to correspond with the margins of the type page

      NINTH PROBLEM

      To draw flowers in outline, black, and middle value

      TENTH PROBLEM

      To render still life or still life with plant forms in several values

      ELEVENTH PROBLEM

      To render typical landscape subjects in several values

      TWELFTH PROBLEM

      To render a figure subject in several values

      PICTORIAL PEN DRAWINGS

      GENERAL STATEMENT

      THIRTEENTH PROBLEM

      To render simple still life forms in light and shade

      FOURTEENTH PROBLEM

      To render still life in a free manner

      FIFTEENTH PROBLEM

      To render plant life pictorially

      SIXTEENTH PROBLEM

      Simple outdoor subjects

      SEVENTEENTH PROBLEM

      The rendering of trees in winter and in summer

      EIGHTEENTH PROBLEM

      The drawing of buildings

      NINETEENTH PROBLEM

      The sketching of figures

      TWENTIETH PROBLEM

      Studies of heads

      TWENTY-FIRST PROBLEM

      Complete figure sketches

      A Short List of Books

      LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS DECORATIVE PEN DRAWINGS

      1.Outlines of plant form

      2.Initials, book plates, and panels in outline

      3.Plant drawings in outline and black

      4.Initials, book plates, and still life compositions in outline and black

      5.Six renderings of an old house in outline and black

      6.Four renderings of a figure composition in outline and black

      7.Cover design embodying a floral panel in outline and black

      8.Cover design embodying a floral border in outline and black

      9.Flowers rendered in outline, black, and gray

      10.Still life and plant form rendered in several values

      11.Landscapes rendered in several values

      12.Figure compositions rendered in several values

      PICTORIAL PEN DRAWINGS

      13.Still life

      14.Still life

      15.Various plant forms

      16.Outdoor subjects

      17.Trees

      18.Buildings

      19.A page of small figure sketches

      20.Typical heads

      21.A young woman

      22.An old lady

      NEW GALLERY OF ILLUSTRATIONS

      (following page 70, see additional source material on pages 69-70)

      23.Summer Morning, F. H. Ball, from Pen, Pencil, and Chalk

      24.The Pirate, Monro Orr, from Pen, Pencil, and Chalk

      25.Love, Youth, and Death, A. Garth Jones, from Modern Pen Drawings

      26.The Vision of St. Agatha, Harold Nelson, from Modern Pen Drawings

      27.Grass Cutting, Lucy Kemp-Welch, from Modern Pen Drawings

      28.Rustum and the Simoorg, Patten Wilson, from Modern Pen Drawings

      29.Are not you he . . . , Arthur Rackham, from A Midsummer-Night's Dream

      30.Portrait of Moffat P. Lindner, Fred Pegram, from Pen Drawing and Pen Draughtsmen

      31.Illustration for Quevedo's Pablo de Ségovie, Daniel Vierge, from Pen Drawing and Pen Draughtsmen

      32.The Modest Rose Puts Forth a Thorn, Louis Fairfax-Muckley, from Pen Drawing and Pen Draughtsmen

      FOREWORD FOR THE MODERN READER

      LINES drawn in ink produce bold statements on paper—they are definitive—their placement on the surface is either black or white. Constructing visual representations from these marks can be refined to a skill, and for some, even be made into an occupation. When James Hall wrote With Pen and Ink in 1913, he had already been teaching Art in New England and New York, and saw ink work as a practical art form to be instructed in schools. Newspapers and magazines were booming—as were books—and the primary method to create illustrations for their use was by drawing with ink.

      The same clear

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