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Mark Powell, Biro Drawing, Biro Art, Antique Postcards, Pen Illustration, Skull Drawing, Human Skull, A Level Art, Antique Postcard

We’ve featured artist Mark Powell previously back in 2012. Revisiting his website, we spotted many exciting new works, that we’d like to introduce to you in the following update. Powell draws portraits of elderly people and animals on vintage envelopes, maps and other paper documents using ballpoint pens, beautifully staging the process of aging and […]

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Mark Powell, Biro Art, Art Alevel, Ballpoint Pen Drawing, Gcse Art Sketchbook, Pen Illustration, Colossal Art, Gcse Art, Vintage Collage

From his Brighton-based studio on the seafront, Mark Powell (previously) pieces together crinkled book pages and postcards laden with travel dispatches. The vintage collages serve as backdrops for the artist’s oversized portraits of older folks, whose pensive stares and deep wrinkles are rendered gently in ballpoint pen. Often magnified, the subjects complement the weathered, ephemeral surfaces that span multiple feet. “I’m currently working on a series of larger works because they have much…

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Mark Powell, Biro Drawing, Ballpoint Pen Drawing, Pen Illustration, Colossal Art, Art Carte, A Level Art, Sketchbook Inspiration, Vintage Lettering

It’s been a couple of years since we last checked in on Mark Powell (previously here and here), who produces ballpoint pen portraits and illustrations of birds and people on vintage envelopes. Recently Powell has expanded his practice to include old maps as another form of canvas, drawing detailed faces and bodies that are given texture by the haphazard roads and regions that comprise the United States or Paris. More

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