An exacting draftsman as well as a clever colorist, Parrish accomplished his impeccable oil paintings by the painstaking application of many thin layers of transparent glazes over bases of monochrome ink or paint.
In Florence he hired Charles-Louis Clérisseau, a brilliant young French draftsman, as his assistant and drawing instructor.
He was a talented draftsman, as his sensitive watercolor of Greek ruins demonstrates.
It verifies in stunning ways Diebenkorn's range as a draftsman as he moved from ink to gouache to painting.
The short-lived Parmigianino (1503-1540), a Mannerist prodigy of mercurial temperament, was as spectacular a draftsman as almost anyone ever.
"As great a draftsman as he is, as great a printmaker as he is, all the work spins out toward his film and opera," he said.
In the course of a varied career he worked as an architectural draftsman, as a lobsterman and carpenter on the coast of Maine, and as a ship's carpenter.
So he went to work as a draftsman at 15, coloring bus maps.
In his introduction, Christopher Hitchens rightly calls Sacco "a moral draftsman," which is as close an approximation of his enterprise and of the hybrid form he is helping to pioneer as anyone is likely to come up with.
A draftsman and etcher as well as painter, he excelled in the depiction of animals, which he presented with flourish in hunting scenes or within compositions filled with exquisite porcelain, fabrics, flowers, and fruit.
