Cool colors and action!
Cheers, Jerry
AW has a limited upload capacity plus don't handle all visual formatings. I've give it a try, however. I'll pick my favorite four hundred artists and work from there. I'll then post it on my site and provide a link at this thread. In the mean while I'll do a few short runs to see what works. I'll try three different formats.
I’ve posted some different worldwide ballpoint pen artist’s drawings so that others could see that pen and ink is clearly progressing. What are you doing to advance the ballpoint pen art movement, I keep asking you or others? I keep wondering what others are doing to establish or strengthening this art movement on a local, state, national, international or historical level?
If you have no program, no site, few artworks and very limited involvement with the art community do you think that helps? Specking of others, what are you doing to help other ballpoint pen artists? Does attacking those that do help other ballpoint artists improve things or just bring on more of the same? Another question I keep asking, why is the fine art community so weak politically, socially, economically or culturally? Ask people around you to name the top five living national, state or local artists. That should help prove my point.
I did artworks outdoors because nature, lighting, fresh air, people or other places brought on far more adventures than did an office or closed off studio. Setting around in a closed room trying to imitate a camera or working from a picture was rather boring and lifeless according to my thinking. Coffee shops, restaurants, libraries, parks, shopping malls or public benches are some great places to observe people or our society first hand. It’s also a great way to see that other artists are not working outside.
Does your site edify, support, help or advance other ballpoint pen artists? Are you into fellowshipping at your site or just out for the gold? Does it bother you to see people collaborate about their successes, gains, blessings or advancements? If I work eighty plus hours a week does my progress offend you? Some say, “It’s all about who you know“. Others say, “Image is everything” or “It’s all luck“. I think working hard, staying informed, learning about society, lessening to others and much prayer works best! By the way, do you think complain about others improves your life in real time?
ISO/DIN archival and colored inks have been the greatest improvements made in the last several years to help advance the ballpoint pen art movement. I’m publishing other people’s colored ballpoint pen drawings to show pen companies that we’re using their products which hopefully will get them thinking about supporting our art movement with some big bucks. The first ballpoint pen company to produce thirteen different colors that I knew of was Lindy Pens. They went out of business because people didn’t find, buy or locate their product.
In the past year many new companies are producing a lot of different colors like never before in history. They must be seeing something that they like because they’re only in it for the money. Most people in real time have no clue that ballpoint pen come in different colors because such materials aren’t being presented before the public. That’s exactly why I’m publishing 800 ballpoint pen artists here on the Web. The “Out of sight out of mind theory” at work!
I keep hearing the cry babies wining about ink blotches that might collect along side their ballpoint pen tips. I’ve worked with too many other art mediums or media to know such is a pretty small problem. How messy is doing a painting, pastel, clay, sculpture or wax work? I remember having a TV camera break down during a shooting or maybe melting metal burn through my shoes doing sculptures and bleeding doing stain glass windows in the theater of my mind. How many times have your clay pots or vases clasped? Remember spilling a bottle of India ink on a rug or your cloths? What about having a silk screen film coming loss during a run or maybe an airbrush compressor nozzle jamming during a public demonstration and don’t forget dropping something towards the end of a project.
What are the ballpoint pen companies finding when they search for their products in use? Are the pen companies finding the same things I’ve located over the past decade on the Web? Apparently they’ve found hope and interest in our artworks because they’ve increased colors, improved security or archival inks plus started posting those advancements on the Internet.
I think my four MSN group sites and those thousand drawings published for nine years certainly helped us all out. You know, it took five years for the search engines to display those art works on their Image or Picture results. It took about eight years to make their video sections. In the old days rounding up forty-five ballpoint pen artists was really a chore because very few people had yet surfaced on the Web or produced sites. There also was not many colored ballpoint pens on the market place.
In the year 1999 there was two artists that surfaces on my Web searches that displayed ballpoint pen art drawings. One guy ways selling his works and the other doing portraits. Neither of them actually had a ballpoint pen program, network, information, stats, steadfast light test, ink analyst results, colored or archival stuff or other works. Just two guys trying to make a buck. However today there are thousands of ballpoint pen artists posted throughout the WWW.
The pen companies just like everyone else is looking to make a buck. They are looking for as many different artists, pictures, information or programs as they can find, product research. They need an indication, hope, a direction or reason to get involved economically just like the many artists around. They have to see a need for their product. Lindy had a great product yet the public was totally ignorant of the medium or their product. They were a small company therefore advertising was close to nothing and that certainly didn’t help. That was long before the Internet came along!
Thinking about what museums, galleries, publishers, commercial artists or retailers want from you as a ballpoint pen artist might prove interesting. Some artists at this forum don’t have many pictures, a listed biography, written programs, communication skills and very little energy yet wonder why not many visitors or comments get listed in their gallery. On top of that they know little about pricing, our art community, history, sales, advertising, marketing, promotions, public relations or don’t even pray for God’s help.
What newness do you bring to the tables or this forum about Ball Point Pen Art is what makes a new developing movement advance my friends or fellow artists.
Cheers and blessings,
Mr. Jerry Stith
(1.) STAEDTLER® 10 colors: ball 432 ice colours (2.) Grand: 10 color ballpoint pen with rope on top (3.) Rainbow 10 color ballpoint pens (4.) Grand Multicolor 10 colored ballpoint pen (5.) Multicolor Ballpoint pen (6.) Pentel RSVP 7 ballpoint pen colors (7.) 10 Color Ball Pens (8.) Parker 10 color ballpoint pen refills (9.) Schefeild: Frosty 9 color ballpoint pens (10.) Shanghai Weijun 12 ballpoint pen colors (11.) Schefields Easygrip 7 ballpoint pen colors (12.) Schefield Prism 10 ballpointpen colors (13.) Fisher Space 10 ballpoint pen colors (14.) Staedtler: 1.6 Maxum 8 color ballpoint (15.) SANFORD 8 ballpoint pen colors (16.) Reynolds 10 ballpoint pen colors (17.) Arty Crafty Rainbow Neon 12 ballpoint pen colors
All of this.......... overexposure just makes it seem rather ordinary. Pity.
(1.) Jerry Stith (2.) Babis Kiliaris (3.) Vincent D. Whitehead (4.) Don McIntire (5.) Jason Powell (6.) Don Stewart (7.) Joseph Edwards (8.) Dolors Barberan (9.) Edward Leavy (10.) Laurinda Behrens (11.) Ron Zilinski (12.) Dean Williams (13.) Eric Cook (14.) Eric Ventour (15.) Justino Magalona (16.) Dennis Kinch (17.) Peggy Hosfelt (18.) Renee Lichtman (19.) Joseph Capuana (20.) Shane Williams (21.) David Flower (22.) Dennis Carlisle (23.) Alvin Burt (24.) Greg Pennington (25.) Joshua Armstrong (26.) Jhonatan Linares (27.) Haruki Funadamat (28.) Janice Hardacre (29.) Alan Vaughn (30.) Jenny Sibley (31.) Pat O'Doherty (32.) Murray Cholowsky (33.) Luke Dempsey (34.) John McDonald (35.) Maureen Wolff (36.) Lawrence S Currie (37.) Oaken Forbade (38.) Gregory Kimble (39.) Randy Nore (40.) Kevin Eason (41.) Emma Cox (42.) Zach Carpenter (43.) Tunji Akinloye (44.) Mark Jephcott (45.) Olivia
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