How many of you art geniuses out there used to doodle with your ball-point pens? How many of you thought you were drawing a pretty good cat, or house, or tree? I am sure that 99% of all kids who went ...

In the autumn of 1948, Marcel Bich, owner of a company located north of Paris that produced ink cartridges for fountain pens, pushed a wheelbarrow in his garden in the village of Rhuis. He considered ...

I know I’m not alone when I say that I hate writing with ballpoint pens–cheap, clumsy, no-good ballpoint pens. They make my signature look like it came from some 7-year-old kid who’s just learning ...

An artist has attracted attention on the internet after posting his ballpoint pen art. Samuel Silva from Portugal has produced photo-realistic drawings of people and animals simply using an array of ...

Jeff Scher, a painter and visual artist, begins this short film with a dot. The dot becomes a line, the lines become shapes, and quickly, the shapes fuse to become an ink-stained darkness. It's a ...

In the world of art, materials and techniques have expanded rapidly – from 3D printing to 3D acrylic paints, to digitally rendered colors that expand on the limitations of traditional pigments. And ...

KYIV -- Whatever his subject -- a tycoon living large while many go hungry, a goon hired to break up protests, an impoverished Ukrainian driven abroad to seek work -- artist Serhiy Kolyada puts it ...

The first whispers came in the summer of 1944: a Hungarian inventor living in Argentina had created something sensational. Practical fountain pens with internal ink cartridges had been in use for ...

This month marks 80 years since one of the most influential yet underrated inventions burst onto the market in New York on ...