This article is about celebrity art which consists, for the most part, of pen & ink drawings of famous personalities, which is for sale at discount with prints by artist Stephen F. Condren, BFA-SAIC, of Condren Galleries, a Fine Arts Gallery, offering JPEG & PDF scans. There are come drawings that are in pencil and charcoal but they are few in number. Prints & Scans Of This Portrait of Bill Clinton #155Z ~ Order Here.
Pen & ink drawing of Morgan Freeman by artist Stephen F. Condren.
Pen & Ink Celebrity Art
Pen & ink drawings are by for the most popular drawing medium to work with because it reproduces with such clarity and sharpness. However, there are time when the soft shade and shadows of pencil and charcoal bring out features of the person. Since my youth I have been drawn to the medium of pen & ink. There is just something exacting and right about the way the ink flows from the pen onto the paper.
Lightning Fast Celebrity Art
Like Enrico Caruso, I am a lightning artist and within moments I can jot down the character of any face or figure. These pen & inks that I do are first jotted down in pencil and then quickly finished in ink. On the average it takes me about 5 minutes to draw each portrait. If you look closely at any of my drawings you can see the light pencil lines. Of course I can do very detailed pen & inks but I seek the brevity of capturing the moment.
Pencil drawing of Whoopi Goldberg by artist Stephen F. Condren.
Pencil & Charcoal Celebrity Art
Pencil and charcoal also make for great celebrity art. The quality that pencil and charcoal offer are the soft gradual change of tones. When you are working with pen & ink you need to work hatch marks to secure the shade and shadow. However, with pencil and charcoal you can ever so gradually develop the shadows.
Scholars & Authors
A large sector of people in both Academia and Research have been placed here as well. Certainly people like Vincent Van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, Albert Schweitzer, and Bertrand Russell, though not celebrities on the screen and of viral internet fame, certainly qualify in my mind as celebrities and so I have place them here.
News
Condren Galleries News has postings with illustrations, drawings, and watercolors of famous personalities in the Untied States and over seas.
This article is about skyline art and cityscape art are the artistic expression of metropolitans areas and cities the world over, which is for sale at discount with prints by artist Stephen F. Condren, BFA-SAIC, of Condren Galleries, a Fine Arts Gallery, offering JPEG & PDF scans. The skyline of a city is the unique barcode image of that site, and lets you know immediately what city it is. As a native of Chicago, I have grown up with famous towering skyscrapers and learned to love them. My father owned the 10 story Silver Smith Building at 10 South Wabash, in downtown Chicago. The Silversmith Building was designed by Peter J. Weber of D.H. Burnham & Company. I have made it my focus here at Condren Galleries Ltd., to categorize my skyline art. The categories are divided into four distinct groups; watercolors, pen & inks, drawings, and oils.
Chicago Skyline Pen & Ink Drawing At Night
Architecture
When I first started out in college I had wanted to be an architect. I was Mr. Pierce’s best student in his drafting class at Naperville Central High School. It was here that is where I aspired to be an architect. However, as time passed I saw my true calling of Art. I pursued studies in Architecture taking the required courses. Structural Detailing, Engineering Graphics, and Architectural Delineation classes at the College of DuPage, in Glenn Ellen, Illinois. It was in Mr. Jorgenson’s class on Architectural Rendering that I did the famous Loeb Mansion, renderings of the Leopold & Loeb murder trial of 1924 with Clarence Darrow. These renderings are now in the collection of the Chicago History Museum.
USS Midway CV-41
After my studies at the College of DuPage, I took time off to serve in the United States Navy. I was stationed aboard the aircraft carrier, The USS Midway CV-41. While on board I was appointed as the ship’s artist and did all of the artwork for the ship Cruise Book. This gave me the opportunity to draw the portaits of the Admiral, Captain, many other officer’s and crew in their respective trades on board the ship. All of the artwork that I did for the cruise book was done in pen & ink. Unfortunately, due to the printing process and publication I was told that the original works of art when submitted would not be returned to me. I knew that I would never see these works of art again, but I am pleased that they could be used for the publication which is eternal.
School Of The Art Institute Of Chicago
Upon my honorable discharge from the Navy I got married and then matriculated to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. While at the Art Institute I majored in Drawing and Painting and I never looked back. I learned a tremendous amount at the Art Institute and I always look back on the wonderful year. While I was there, I had the blessing to attend with my aunt Marie Schoonhoven (my mother’s sister). Aunt Marie was an artist the focused on prints and etchings. At the Art Institute I bloomed as an artist.
College Instructor &Â Applied Technology High School Teacher
Within a few years I was asked to join the faculty of the College of Lake County to teach Architectural Rendering and Engineering Graphics. In later years I became certified public High School Teacher. This time really honed my skills as an expert teacher and architectural draftsman & illustrator. In those year I did many projects for Architects and Engineers. The impact of all these thing further enhanced my drafting skills. I have now combined my drafting skills with my Fine Art. The impact of the this union of skills are wonderful architectural skylines.
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Watercolor of Chicago skyline at sunset.
Skyline Art ~ Watercolors
Watercolors have always been a favorite medium of mine in any subject area, and skyline have truly work here for me. The wonderful thing about watercolor is that they are translucent. Thus, you can work with pen & ink or pencil in conjunction with the watercolor to give linear qualities to the skylines. The watercolors give a whole new dimension to the work of skyline art.
Pen & ink drawing of Houston skyline.
Skyline Art ~ Pen & Inks
Pen & inks are my favorite mode of artistic expression, when I hold a pen in my hand I feel like a poet. The wonderful thing about pen & ink is that it is immediate and the impact of the image that you make with them is strong. The pen & inks make excellent reproductions with their bold linework. I make use of hatching and cross-hatching to work the various degrees of shade and shadows. The high contrast nature of pen & inks lend themselves to a strength of line that cannot be matched by pencil. Charcoal can match the degree of darkness but never the fine lines. This strong line work is ideal when drawing architectural images for they bring out the fine ornamental details and contour lines.
Atlanta skyline pencil drawing of downtown at night.
Skyline Art ~ Drawings
Drawings are the very core of my life. When I touch the paper with my pencil I am instantaneously in one spirit with it, an almost existential experience. The unique thing about pencil drawing is that they make use of a long series of shades. You can draw a building and then play with the gradual diminishing of the lead to make the light move into darkness.
Atlanta Skyline Oils At Night.
Skyline Art ~ Oils
Oils are the most difficult medium to work with when it comes to painting skylines for you cannot really delineate as you can with pen & inks and pencil. I treat oils as though they were pencils in a sense and work with the gradual transition of colors and tones, not delineation. When it comes to skylines it is difficult to surpass Manhattan and Chicago.
Many of my skyline have been use for closing gifts by Realtors and for presentations to Architects and Banks for new construction. Coupled with skylines are house portaits which are a popular housewarming gift.
Chicago skyline drawing #153Z is a pen & ink drawing of North Lake Shore Drive by artist Stephen F. Condren of CondrenGalleries, a Fine Arts Gallery, with prints, and scans. This article is about my brown pen & ink drawing of the Chicago, Illinois, skyline looking southward from Lincoln Park, along Lake Michigan. Because Chicago skylines are great, their prints are great! Prints & Scans Of This Skyline Drawing #153Z ~ Order Here.
Chicago Skyline Drawing #153Z Key elements to the fine drawing are as follows:
Brown Pen & Ink.
Lake Michigan.
John Hancock Center.
Brown Pen & Ink: This drawing is done in brown pen & ink so as to compliment the soft tones of the drawing. Everything about this drawing flows gracefully and elegantly. The John Hancock Center, which is the centerpiece of the drawing stands aloft in triumph over the scenic cityscape. On the far left is Lake Point Tower, drawn with just the right line work and weight to give full account of that great residential building.
Lake Michigan: The presence of Lake Michigan is all pervasive in the coast drawing as she quietly dominates the lower portion of the drawing from side to side. It is along here that Lake Shore Drive nestles among the trees as it moves traffic along the lakefront.
John Hancock Center: The undisputed grand monarch of Streeterville, and among the greatest skyscrapers of history stands the John Hancock Center. The line work that portrays this great structure is exact and elegant at the same time, perfectly expressing with a few strokes this mighty structure. I have gently worked every detail of this building so as to bring out it excellent proportions, and in so doing leaving the giant exoskeleton out of the drawing.
This article is about Closing gifts and watercolor house portraits by, which are for sale at discount with prints by artist Stephen F. Condren, BFA-SAIC, of Condren Galleries, a Fine Arts Gallery, offering JPEG & PDF scans. Order House Portraits Here.
Flier
Below is an image of one of my house portrait fliers that I give to Realtors and contractors for securing business. The nice thing about a flier is that is a very inexpensive way to promote my business, and the results can often come quickly.
For the most part, however, I look as passing out fliers as planting seeds for long term results.
This article is about townhomes closing gifts, which are for sale at discount with prints by artist Stephen F. Condren, BFA-SAIC, of Condren Galleries, a Fine Arts Gallery, offering JPEG & PDF scans. Order House Portraits Here.
This article is about Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un, as a celebrity art pen & ink drawing, which is for sale at discount with prints by artist Stephen F. Condren, BFA-SAIC, of Condren Galleries, a Fine Arts Gallery, offering JPEG & PDF scans.
Delineation
The line work for this drawing is very light because Mr. Trump is older.
This article is about Chicago skyline watercolors #149Z are metropolitan cityscape paintings, which is for sale at discount with prints by artist Stephen F. Condren, BFA-SAIC, of Condren Galleries, a Fine Arts Gallery, offering JPEG & PDF scans. Because Chicago is on the water, it has a shoreline.
This article is about Chicago skyline prints, which are for sale at discount with prints by artist Stephen F. Condren, BFA-SAIC, of Condren Galleries, a Fine Arts Gallery, offering JPEG & PDF scans.
This article is about House portraits for ranch homes, which is for sale at discount with prints by artist Stephen F. Condren, BFA-SAIC, of Condren Galleries, a Fine Arts Gallery, offering JPEG & PDF scans. Great for house warmings too!
This article is about the celebration the historic summit meeting of Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un, in Singapore, in a pen & ink drawing, which is for sale at discount with prints by artist Stephen F. Condren, BFA-SAIC, of Condren Galleries, a Fine Arts Gallery, offering JPEG & PDF scans.
