Working in sketchbook is fundamental to my studio practice as an artist. This is where all ideas start and are captured for refinement. Filled with notes, sketches, reportage drawings and observational drawings, these books are …
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•Mark T Smith
Illustration 2017-2019 Selected Works
I have been active as an Illustrator for my entire professional career. Illustration is a rewarding and challenging pursue, to create in a collaborative environment, sometimes tackling subject matter that is alien to our normal …
Landscapes 2018-2019
After relocating to the Pacific Northwest in 2018, I returned to painting landscapes again. Working both in the studio and en plein air, I filled sketchbooks, scraps of paper and in the end created a …
Illustration 1991-2018
From my earliest days, I was always most interested in drawing and creating visuals. I graduated from the Pratt Institute Communications Design program with a focus in Illustration. Illustration was the clearest path forward for …
Printmaking / Linoleum Block Printing
Although linoleum is a floor covering that dates to the 1860s, the linocut printing technique was used first by the artists of Die Bruke in Germany between 1905 and 1913, where it had been similarly …
