Greetings Ladies and Gentlemen, a ballpoint pen has three unique characteristics that separates it from all other pen systems throughout history and that apparently is why it out sells all others. A ballpoint uses an oil based ink delivery system while every other pen was oriented around a water base ink supply. Stronger casings, harder tips, ink reserves, pressurized cartridges and replaceable refills were considerable improvements. Such upgrades needlessly to say increased there popularity, reliability and practicality.
Dark rich colors, mile long flowing lines and subtle half tones from a full tone ink system makes a ballpoint pen different from all other pen systems in history. Those three items are very favorable virtues of a ballpoint pen. Lets therefore look at each of those three features as well as those utilizing them as a ballpoint pen artists. In doing so we are documenting things that make up a new developing art movement. Having eight hundred plus recorded artists and over five thousand pictures posted shows examples plus credits people for new styles and archives ballpoint pen art history right before our very eyes.
Half tone artists: 1. Richard T. Slone 2. Mathew Cerletty 3. Alan Dalton 4. Ron Clowney 5. Amy Biernacchi 6. Mark Reisen 7. David Elliot 8. France Belleville 9. Edd Tokarz Harnas 10. Mike Winnard 11. Aonghas Smith 12. Richard Smith 13. Sheri Bowers 14. Eric Venture15. Shirish Deshpande 16. Raphael Sassi 17. David Wagner 18. Darren Bayley 19. Timothy Rees 20. Joseph Edwards 21. Dolors Barberán 22. Emma Cox 23. Aristides Ruiz 24. Ferran Serra Ferrer 25. Larry Zeigler 26. Eric Cook 27. Justino Magalona 28. Gregory Kimble 29. Edward Leavy 30. Don McIntire 31. James Mylne 32. Clasina Roodt 33. Chris Hack 34. Andy Cook 35. Jan Fabre 36. Dean Williams 37. Pa Fredrik 38. Jason Powell 39. Bill Dotson 40. Vincent Whitehead 41. Dominica Boucher 42. Juan F. Casas 43. Allan Barbeau 44. Andrey Hrenov 45. Don Stewart 46. Phillip Blackman 47. Giuseppe Borrello 48. Babis Kiliaris 49. Jerry Stith
Color artists: (non black) 1. Jerry Stith 2. Babis Kiliaris 3. Giuseppe Borrello 4. Allan Barbeau 5. Pa Fredrik 6. Ron Zilinski 7. Jan Fabre 8. Clasina Roodt 9. Don McIntire 10. Justino Magalona 11. Laurinda Behren 12. Mark Jephcott 13. Butt Johnson 14. Haruki Funadama 15. John Tresadern 16. Shizu Saldamando 17. Haruki Funadama 18. Matt Ritchie 19. Adam Edmonds 20. David Flower 21. Shirish Deshpande 22. Ian Robinson 23. SRStott 24. Renee Lichtman 25. Joshua Armstrong 26. Katia Santibanez
Bold line artists: 1. Jerry Stith 2. Babis Kiliaris 3. Pierre Lapalu 4. Ste Pickford 5. Michael S Fenton 6. John Tresadern 7. Matt Ritchie 8. Ashley Gilkes 9. Adam Edmonds 10. Rubén Fernandez Rojo 11. Lindsay Polson 12. Dennis Carlisle 13. Darren Reallyloud 14. Harry McCue 15. Jennifer Kraska 16. Ranganath Krishnamani 17. Gabriel Mejia 18. Adam Sacks 19. Rodney Gee 20. Tunji Akinloye 21. Shane Williams 22. IL LEE 23. Dennis Kinch 24. Djibril N'Doye 25. Kerry Mosley 26. Victor Elberse 27. Graphein Orz 28. Clement Yeh 29. Darren Bayley 30. Joseph Capuana 31. Mark Wells 32. Andrea Joseph 33. Thomas Schoch 34. Curt Brill 35. Marty Harris 36. Luis Pacheco 37. Andrew Paquette 38. Serhiy Kolyada 39. Jhonatan Linares 40. Larry Roibal 41. Dennis Carlisle 42. Gabriel Mejia 43. Taylor White 44. James Jean 45. Brian Moyer 46. Jay M. Garfinkle 47. Ian Marsden 48. Kerry Mosley 49. Alvin Burt 50. Susan Goodall
With over eight hundred ballpoint pen artists published this listing could go on and on folks. ( http://jerrystith.multiply.com/ ) Vast improvements have been made from 1938 which is when the Biro brothers out or Argentina produced the first commercial ballpoint pen. Today pen manufactures are working on synthetic resigns, archival ink, new colors, better tips, pressurized cartridges, fancier casings and improved futures for all ballpoint pen artists. Artists should be very thankful for all improvements the pen industry have made over the past decade because they have helped many tremendously plus contributed to the popularity of this art movement. People and society always benefit by having top notch equipment, tools or instruments.
The ballpoint pen industry is currently producing an ultra fine tip out of India that is about the same as an extra fine tip manufactured by Parker in 1981. Those tips produce the subtlest camera ready graphic lines in history. Those same lines elevated the sensitivity of mankind which increases the value of what everyone in the pen and ink art movement is doing to date. Most people don't have those two extraordinary tips so working with a fine tip will just have to do. Remember the same goes with a fine tip people. All three of those ballpoint pen tips produce spectacular results plus pioneer new frontiers for those yet to arrive. Think of all those pen and ink artists throughout history that wished they had a ballpoint pen's ultra, fine, medium or bold tip to produce their artworks. Producing and claiming a place in history really is a wonderful achievement yet only a dream for most.
Specking of history lets stroll down memory lane. Pen and ink is one of the oldest writing or drawing mediums of all times. For one thousand years a quill feather was used as a pen. It seems like progress in those days was rather limited if no new improvements came for such a long period of time. Somewhere down the line metal nibs got produced and history took another turn for the better. After a dip pen came the fountain, cartridges, tech, felt, uni ball, roller, blanch, high liners, markers and a ballpoint. All of those pens except a ballpoint used water based inks, had bendable, flimsy or breakable tips. Our Industrial Revolution again came through for billions or people, writers and yes artists. Well that's how the ball bounces or rolls people.
Dark rich colors flowing from a pen is another generous idea as we look at things from an artist's point of view. Think again how many artists dreamed or hoped for bright rich colors and how blessed those using them today are. Pen and ink suffered for thousands of years because such a break thorough never took place. Many art mediums, video, TV, film, photography, copiers, the printing press and even an Internet came along in living color before a ballpoint pen could compete on an equal footing. Such a wait definitely hampered pen and ink yet alone the ballpoint pen art movement. The advancement of colored ballpoint pen art is a vital turning point for countless millions of artists living right now and for all those yet to arrive. That's why Jerry Stith is drawing with his colored ballpoint pens in addition to publishing many others doing exactly the same.
Mile long flowing oil based ballpoint pen ink drawings are among the most spontaneous art works around especially when produced outside in real live time. If you have a new Fisher ballpoint pen you can drawing in space, under water, upside down, over grease, in the freezing cold or just sitting around in a local park if not at the beach. Otherwise you can produce pictures of people walking, in court, doing sports, playing, singing or nature at its best. A non stop flowing line certainly helps produce spontaneous picture making, refreshing moods, creative moments as well as exciting times.
On the Internet most ballpoint pen artists are using black inks. After that people prefer blue inks and then reds from my observations. Inklings, doodles, sketches and rendering by beginners or young people make up most of the ballpoint pen artworks because culture is of the people, by the people and for the people. About ten years ago or back in the year 2000 I noticed that only two artists could be found doing ballpoint pen pictures on the Web. Both of those people were promoting themselves not the ballpoint pen as an art medium. Jerry Stith at that time realized that something had to be done to establish ballpoint pen art as an art medium, instrument or movement. The Bic pen company in the year 2005 announced that they sold one hundred billion ballpoint pens. Needless to say countless millions of those pens ended up in the hands of artists!
Art should enhance our people, culture, society, heritage, society and communities in addition to maintaining a high code of ethics, morals, principles, standards or values. Those are in part what art is all about ladies and gentlemen. Art is a form of therapy that helps heal the souls, it brings people together, provides joy and happiness to others and records creative expressions to a world through pictures. Images are very powerful because most people are visual by nature. They remember what they see, recall their dreams, think using imagery as well as visualize their futures and those things can't be taken away by words or others. Finding ways to make art work into societies infrastructure is how we protect our lives.
Art can work socially, economically, politically, practically and spiritually if that's in the hearts of the people. Coming up with historically proven solutions is what people need to do if strengthening our art community is important to the artist and world at large. Ballpoint pen art is something new to many people throughout our world and society yet pen and ink isn't. One great advantage artists have is that billions of people already have knowledge of a ballpoint pen. That means they realize how it operates, recognize the difficulties of working with ink and know a spectacular work of art completed with a ballpoint pen when they see one, knowing what they know. It's something they can related to personally and that's very significant. That's something everyone should keep in mind as we work towards marketing, advertising, promoting and publishing our ideas. Making a new world class art movement is something very special and a great goal to work towards! What do you think?
Being prolific or productive in my opinion helps make of breaks a person as an artist. Jerry Stith has well over fifteen hundred inklings, doodles, sketches, renderings, drawings or illustrations published on the World Wide Web. There are about five other ballpoint pen art artists or leaders of that art movement with one hundred give or take pictures posted. Stith therefore has more than ten times the amount of ballpoint pen pictures completed and published folks. Its would be completely absurd to over look his place in history or part in that art movement, if you know what I mean. When people look at this article and realize that their name isn't posted just stop and think why. What makes you stand out over the other thousands of ballpoint pen artists currently showing up on the Web?
How many hundreds or thousands of ballpoint pen drawings have you finished? If I search the Internet how many places does your name appear? Does your sites, blogs, slideshows, videos, articles, forum posts and artworks reflect greatness or is nothing coming up at all? There are over one billion people registered with the WWW internationally plus all those just viewing in at their friends house or in a library. You have to be producing something on the Internet that other people can find, want, need or desire. You also have to promote, price, advertise, market, sell, reproduce, publish and present a complete program to go with it. Too many people want to post a limited number of pictures at a forum or in an online gallery and just sit back and wait for the mother load to come their way. They want the world to come to them in other words. That must be a female thing or insanity within a commercial world of six billion.
The commercial art community brings in more income than the oil industry people. That’s because what they do operates every major company, industry, corporation or sector in society. Fine artists groove on their feelings, get art works done when they feel like it, desire to do things their way and disregard commercial art practices completely and wonder why people aren’t beating down the door to buy their artworks. Producing ballpoint pen art history before one billion people worldwide on the Internet is no small task. Getting people to jump on that bandwagon is even harder my friends. Next ringing money out of their wallets in order to make you rich and famous is next to impossible or a life long task to say the least. I guess that leaves out being cute and not throwing your hat into the ring, doesn't it!
Look around yourself and see how many people know of your existence? Is there a particular reason someone across the world would be interested in your art, programs, views, ideas or direction in life? Ask yourself how many state, national, international or historical achievements have you got under your belt and then produce a program that will convince others more of those things belong to you is what I'm bring up boys and girls. Getting busy, getting busy is what we're talking about around here people. The lame game simply doesn't work on an international or national level folks. Jerry Stith has been writing, doing art, Web development, videos, animations, commercial layouts, digital works, communicating or researching materials on the Web full time for over ten years now people. He lives to work! God has blessed him with many fantastic achievements, skills and abilities so he feels putting them to work is a form of gratitude or thanks to the Father. Hell hounds most likely can't figure out that train of thought.
In the year of 2010 we have an opportunity to see another decade appear right before our eyes. Are you going to head for the hills, bury your head in the sand, wish upon a star or actually double down and work twice as hard? Will you blame winners for doing triple time or rationalize away your laziness as bad luck? People have to deal with their artworks as a product or serves just like any other business. Skills, knowledge, abilities, wisdom and diligent work habits are what pays off in the long run. The Internet lets people rise above the crowds around them on a local level. People can now deal with an international network instead of local dummies trying to hold them back because of personal differences or personality preferences. People on the Internet are interested in facts, stats, information, products, services and programs that can make them money or better their lives.
A billion people on the Web, all those search engines, sites, networks, forums, organizations and companies represents opportunities to those seeking it. That indicates massive work and a game plan is in order. Plugging into societies infrastructure in order to produce opportunity for others is something each and every person in the ballpoint pen art movement should be thinking of people. What ideas, plans, innovations, skills or new thinking do you bring to the table. Do you support those that are already showing leadership or are you just another thorn in their side. Do you teach others, provide information, direct people to new uses of your art medium, demonstrate lots of styles and publish other peoples names or thoughts?
Well boys and girls its time to move on to some other projects. There’s plenty of food for thought within this write up for you to think about until next time. We'll be working hard on establishing ballpoint pen art as a new art movement and we can only hope you're doing the same. Have a great day, remain healthy and happy for all our benefits plus keep on creating is our wish.
Gratefully,
Gary Stith
