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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.  

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

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 GuangzhouChina, might not know ballpoint pen artwork but apparently they know what they like ...  ''Ballpoint art is totally a new field for meto 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

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DECEMBER 2016   

Lennie Mace   RETROSPECTACLE  II  Tokyo, Japan  1994-2004    

By 1994Lennie 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

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

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Read about these artworks in the artists' own words in The Ballpointer PICKPIECE archives.

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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.

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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