PEN DRAWING
AN ILLUSTRATED TREATISE
BY CHARLES D. MAGINNIS
1921 - 144 Pages.

CONTENTS
Page
Chapter I. Style in Pen Drawing..........1
Chapter II. Materials ...................12
Chapter III. Technique...................19
Chapter IV. Values.......................45
Chapter V. Practical Problems............60
Chapter VI.Architectural Drawing.........71
Chapter VII. Decorative Drawing..........106

CHAPTER I

STYLE IN PEN DRAWING

Art, with its finite means, cannot hope to record
the infinite variety and complexity of
Nature, and so contents itself with a partial
statement, addressing this to the imagination
for the full and perfect meaning. This inadequation,
and the artificial adjustments which
it involves, are tolerated by right of what is
known as artistic convention ; and as each art
has its own particular limitations, so each has
its own particular conventions. Sculpture reproduces
the forms of Nature, but discards the
color without any shock to our ideas of verity;
Painting gives us the color, but not the third
dimension, and we are satisfied ; and Architecture
is purely conventional, since it does
not even aim at the imitation of natural form.
Of the kindred arts which group themselves
under the head of Painting, none is based on
such broad conventions as that with which we
are immediately concerned the art of Pen
Drawing. In this medium. Nature's variety
of color, when not positively ignored, is suggested
bv means of sharp black lines, of varying
thickness, placed more or less closely together
upon white paper; while natural formdepends
primarily for its representation upon arbitrary
boundary lines....

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