SEPTEMBER 2018
Auto Motives Luis Silva Villa do Condo, Portugal
In the photorealist work of Portuguese artist Luis Silva, ballpoint pen artwork can be discussed in terms of 'make' and 'model' along with color and composition. Car Talk. Gear heads meet the wine and cheese crowd ...
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pictured : Porsche 911, 2016, cropped. © Luis Silva
January 2021
Don Stewart Birmingham, Alabama
Over 130 individual images comprise this ballpoint drawing of Jake, a bronze statue guarding the entrance to ...
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Navy Diver , October 2020. © Don Stewart
March 2021
Aaron Robert Baker Chicago, Illinois
This drawing is from a series called Heads, which has its origins in an artwork I did over twenty years ago when I was in art school; a little, stippled picture of a character ...
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Head, 2021 , 2021. © Aaron Robert Baker
SEPTEMBER 2020
PENNAME FLASHBACK Shirish Deshpande Belgaun, India
The Ballpointer introduced the ballpoint pen work of Shirish Deshpande to the world as a PENNAME feature at the start of 2015. He was featured again in 2016 ... Here we've condensed excerpts from those articles ...
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pictured : Lockdown 3.0 - 03, 2020.
2016 PICKS page ARCHIVE menu: Dec2015~Dec2016
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DECEMBER 2014 Shane McAdams Brooklyn, New York
Ballpoint pen art without the ballpoint pen? That and more
from Shane McAdams, who literally removes the ball point
from the equation by "blowing", milking or otherwise extracting
ink from ballpoints and magic markers toward artistic ends...
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pictured : Cloudslinger, 2014. © Shane McAdams
James Mylne London, England
OCTOBER 2020
Rooms With A View JooLee Kang Seoul, Korea
For anyone who might wonder if artistic innovation with ballpoint pens had begun drying up like the ink in an old pen, along comes JooLee Kang with a ballpoint display which breaks the mediums’s pen-on-paper confines ...
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pictured : Still Life with Shells #1, cropped. © JooLee Kang
Andrey Poletaev Lugansk, Ukraine
MAY 2020
Paolo Amico Turin, Italy PICKS SPECIAL
Introducing a new masterpiece of ballpointing which pulls together disparate elements of history and geography and retrofits them for a 21st century audience. The artwork's title is spoiler to part of the story ...
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pictured : The Fire of Notre-Dame, 2019-2020, cropped.
MARCH 2020
Lennie Mace Tokyo, Japan
Yeah I went and did it, something I've always made a point to avoid: referencing pop culture within my artwork ...
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Minnie Mace , Nov 2019. © Lennie Mace
2017 PICKS page ARCHIVE menu: Feb2017~Nov2017
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APRIL 2020
Nils Van der Linden Antwerp, Belgium
Described here is one of my most recent drawings, a view
of the Belgium city Ghent ...
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Ghent , 2019-2020. © Nils Van der Linden
DECEMBER 2019
Joker Johnson James Mylne PICKSSPECIAL
''I don't think Boris Johnson is what he tries to get across on camera. His silly behavior and humorous banter serves to make people feel at ease and get people to trust him but there is more beneath that 'painted face' of his.'' ...
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pictured : Joker Johnson, 2019.
JULY 2020
Juan Francisco Casas Madrid, Spain
This is one the ballpoint drawings for my exhibition, Non Piangere, inspired by Artemisia Gentileschi ...
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Artemisia, Judith, Rachel , 2020. © J.F. Casas
JUNE 2020
BALLPOINT ART Complexity from Simplicity BOOK REVIEW
Editors at Sandu Publishing in Guangzhou, China, might not know ballpoint pen artwork but apparently they know what they like ... ''Ballpoint art is totally a new field for me, to be honest,'' editorial director Jessie Tan conceded ...
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pictured : book cover title texts, 2020.
AUGUST 2020
Dominique Vangilbergen Berlin, Germany
The scene is an impression of the 1910 Great Flood of Paris and illustrates ... man's ongoing battle with nature ...
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Opera #31 Palais Garnier Paris © D. Vangilbergen
2020 FEATURE article ARCHIVE menu
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2018 PICKS page ARCHIVE menu: Feb2018~Dec2018
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DECEMBER 2016
Lennie Mace RETROSPECTACLE II Tokyo, Japan 1994-2004
By 1994, Lennie Mace had made a name for himself as an illustrator and had been exhibiting his ballpoint pen artwork in New York annually since 1990. ...
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pictured : The Longer The Drool... 2005. © Lennie Mace
Christopher Arabadjis New York, NY
2019 PICKS page ARCHIVE menu: Mar2019~Sept2019
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JANUARY 2020
Nathan Lorenzana Guatemala City, Guatemala
The colors I'm using are part of the ochre/orange palette, along with some purples and blues for shades ...
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Portrait commission , 2020. © Nathan Lorenzana
2021 PICKS page ARCHIVE menu
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Archie Smith Paphos, Cyprus
MARCH 2020
PENdemic Sheltering-In-Place PART 1 review
Pandemic is a scary word but here we are in the midst of just such a scare, facing an equal-opportunity killer virus which sees neither race, gender nor economic status, with 9,000-and-counting deaths to its credit. ...
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pictured : Tokyo's telecast-only sumo tournament, screenshot.
2015 PICKS page ARCHIVE menu: Feb~Nov2015
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NOVEMBER 2020
Alexandra Miron London, England
The idea came to me while thinking of my guardian angel, drawing a parallel between angels and seraphim ...
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Psychedelic Angel , 2020. © Alexandra Miron
JUNE 2017
Ballpoint Art Trent Morse BOOK REVIEW
Just as so many presumptuous or naive ballpoint prodigies tripped over each other to have you believe they 'came first ', so came the race for First Place in formally documenting ballpoint pen art history...
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pictured : cover art, Untitled crop, 2014. © Thomas Müller
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