Spanish artist Nuria Riaza uses bright blue ballpoint ink to create drawings of segmented faces and other surreal scenes, pieces that capture an expressive detail most would not associate with the everyday office supply. Riaza has been attracted to the medium since she was five or six, and fully dedicated herself to working with ballpoint pens since […]
Author Archives: Mr.Deyo
Ballpoint
Chiaroscuro (English: /kiˌɑːrəˈsk(j)ʊəroʊ/kee-AR-ə-SKOOR-oh, -SKEWR-, Italian: [ˌkjaroˈskuːro]; Italian for ‘light-dark’), in art, is the use of strong contrasts between light and dark, usually bold contrasts affecting a whole composition. It is also a technical term used by artists and art historians for the use of contrasts of light to achieve a sense of volume in modelling three-dimensional objects and figures.[1] Similar effects in cinema and photography also are […]
