Pascal Plazanet

Pascal Plazanet is a French artist born in 1963 who lives and works in Paris, France. For more 30 years, he constantly uses rapidograph pens in his artworks on paper or onto canvas. The rapidograph is a special pen with a capillary tubular tip in which flows a black pigment, an ancient drawing tool used by architects before the arrival of the CAD. 

There are several lead or tip thicknesses ranging from 0.1 or 10% of a millimeter up to 1.2 or 120% of a millimeter. All lead thicknesses are 0.2, 0.3, 0.4 which means that all tips or leads vary between 0.1 and 1.2 millimeters. The artist uses 0.2 or 20% of a millimeter.