black and white

The Kiss by Jeffrey Catherine Jones


http://www.jeffreyjones-art.com/



Expressive and loose inking styles can be seen in the comic art of:

Jacques Tardi
Jeffrey Jones
Jorge Zaffino
Tony Salmons
Dave McKean
...



Black and white photography gives a sense of the past and a feel of documentary - an objective feel... removing emotional associations of colour, the viewer is guided toward a particular reading...
I have chosen to produce black and white artwork for my MA project to compliment a subjective visual narrative.


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"Black is the most essential colour ... [it] should be respected. Nothing prostitutes it. It does not please the eye and does not awaken sensuality. It is the agent of the spirit much more than the splendid colour of the palette or of the prism."

-Odilion Redon


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"I didn't have money to buy the paint so I would work a regular day job working on apartments, doing sheet rocking or plastering things and then I would steal all the leftover gallons of paint and add them to other gallons. So (my work) was purely black and white because it was the easiest and cheapest way to pull it off."

- WK Interact

(from an interview in Juxtapoz magazine, Jan 2009)


the cover to the Jan 2009 issue of Juxtapoz magazine features art by street artist WK Interact

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"For some unknown godforsaken reason, I become an editor at DC Comics. I pitch the idea of a black and white anthology series featuring Batman. The key to the series' success, I figure, is to hire the very best artists in the business. Most everyone at DC tells me it won't sell. No one likes black and white comics. No one likes anthologies... the series becomes a creative and financial success."

- Mark Chiarello

(from the introduction to Batman Black and White, Vol. 1: 2007)