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Blue Ball Point Pen Art
Ballpoint Pen Art…my favorite medium as can be seen from my website!
Interesting article below by a ballpoint pen artist:
Fellow blogger friend Bénédicte of Carnet de Dessins has been inspired by my recent postings to begin drawing with the famous blue ball point pen! She’s posted two drawings she made using the fabulous pen.
Perhaps I can persuade others to try drawing with a blue ball point pen, and I would recommend doing a test drawing something like the one above as a way of getting started — just to get the feel of the tool. [FYI: Shhh, we call it a “test” drawing so that other people who are wondering what we’re doing can get a satisfactory answer: “Oh, I’m just testing out this new pen.” While actually we’re really having a lot of fun. However “mum’s the word.”]
I drew the fake rocks above using a Bic Cristal ball point pen, one of the world’s cheapest pens. The “fake rocks” are kind of an ordinary, average sort of manufactured product too — rather…
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Outsiders As Insiders
Once again, I want to thank my friend, Janet Cooper, for sending me such a wonderful link: A Strange and Wonderful View of Outsider Art !
coat by Giuseppe Versino (1882 – 1963), an Italian asylum inmate who made clothing from braided rags.
So, before looking at Version’s coat and saying “Yuck, I’d never wear that!”, take a look below at a couple of Comme des Garcons creations:
Comme des Garcons
Comme des Garcons
Now back to OUTSIDER ARTISTS…Why do you think that people who never considered themselves artists felt a compulsion to create? Because, more than “I think therefore I am” it’s “I create therefore I am“.
related links: When The Curtain Never Comes Down. American Folk Art Museum + KRÜSI, HANS + Père Léonide + MELINA RICCIO 1951- | ITALY
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Tagged Art Brut, Comme des Garcons, Giuseppe Versino, Janet Cooper, outsider art
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Affirmation or wishful thinking?
The other day I began jotting down some affirmations. The list kept getting longer and longer causing me to have some doubts—what’s the difference between affirmation and wishful thinking?
And then I tranquillized myself. Every affirmation I made was true. Because desire is a fact.
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Tagged affirmations, desire, graphic writings, wishful thinking
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Affirmations
It’s been raining a lot here in Rome and gray days invite gray thoughts. This morning gray led to black and I saw little hope for change. Then, like magic, I remembered a childhood book entitled “The Little Engine That Could” with the leitmotif “I think I can“. To accomplish something, all you need is to convince yourself you can do it.
With this in mind, I sharpened a pencil and began to write affirmations to repeat over and over again like mantras.
For 10 minutes, I stood in front of a mirror trying to hypnotize myself before I realized that what you see is what you get.
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The Narrative Within 