Pen painting

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Pen painting is a painting technique used by seventeenth-century artists from the Dutch Republic. First the artist grounds a canvas with white oil paint before drawing on it with blue India ink. The invention of the technique is commonly attributed to Willem van de Velde the Elder.[1]

The battle of Terheide, a 1657 pen painting by Willem van de Velde the Elder

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