Although the market for hand-drawn portraits largely collapsed following ... An ordinary ballpoint pen is held in a spring-loaded carrier, which provides just enough pen-to-paper pressure to ...

but because if he used only one pen the whole time, the nib would start bleeding from the constant friction. That's how much intensity creating these portraits requires. Intensity, and a lot of skill.

The portrait, called Maternal Line, contains no face - and the artist used her grandmother's pen scrawls and streaks of her saliva to create the work. But is it art? Jackson Pollock made scrawly ...

And Montblanc has indeed surprised me once again with its latest Patron of Art pen collection, while supporting the reality of - and the need for - arts patronage, which is the core of the ...

If you've already done a three-quarters view portrait, then look straight onand try a full-face portrait.Or change your materials. We've been using pencils ... for teaching Art and Design at ...

The father of Martyn Hett was the first to present a "pen portrait" of his son, whose "memory will shine brightly". The portraits will give each family the chance to present a personal insight ...