Jennifer – large pen and ink drawing 85 x 43 inches
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This style is extremely impressive. I have a drawing on my site, half of it printed and the other half replicated with pen. Can I ask, how did you do this? stippling? because the lines seem so small! Love it
Hi, Rachael…
I think I found the drawing you mentioned on your site — nice work!
There’s no stippling in my pen and ink work — if you examine any of the details (click on the detail and when it pops up, right-click on the enlarged image and select ‘view image’)… Then you’ll be able to see how the drawing is constructed… It’s an unusual cross-hatching I’ve invented in which each value-layer is ‘filled’ with concentric spirals which reflect the contour of the area being filled. Each ‘layer’ is fairly simple, though there are a lot of concentric squiggly lines throughout, but there are many layers and they are drawn one on top of the other and a complex-appearing cross-hatching develops and communicates the image in a startling way. This cross-hatching delops naturally through the iterative process… I make heavy use of computers and computer controlled equipment (much of which I’ve designed and built here in studio), but the drawing is made using ball-point pens or rolling writers — whatever you call them. Over the years I seem to have moved very far from the sort of eye-hand coordination I was taught in art school and I thoroughly enjoy precipitating from mind to object in this more direct way through use of ‘contemporary’ as well as traditional tools.
– Mike
Mike,
I didn’t see the enlarged pictures before, Your technique is extremely impressive, I love how you demonstrate the contour of the face with slight adjustments to the curvature of the implied lines. I’m sure this took you a good chunk of time to complete. Thank you for the little lesson in pen!
I am thinking about putting a page on my site of artists that I have come across who impress me and putting a link to their site. If it’s ok I’d like to put you on there?
Rach