It may surprise a few, but many ink artists use ballpoint pens to achieve their renderings... and that does not mean just b/w renderings as this landscape by Harry McCue, but by using some of the multicolor pens have achieved remarkable color works... but even there [or perhaps especially], the size of the rendering still poses some problems in the general public regards to seeing the finished works as Fine Art... admittedly, this seems most unfair, especially since there are a number of artists using, say, acrylics who seemingly not do works much larger than 11"x14" and have no problem being accepted as doing fine art - even when the rendering itself is only part of the canvas, as a vignette, or worse when actually done as studies in the same manner pens are used as sketches and/or drawings and not per se as on their own...
What to do? for one, increase the size of the rendering, obviously... but that does not appeal to a lot of ink artists because there is so much more work involved and interest flags in extending completing the rendering... understandable, especially when the more traditional mediums can render small in a much shorter time, allbeit without that nice quality of detail... another way is to increase the bordering of the finished work - larger matte and frame for instance... to a degree, this works in that it give a more professional look, and even invites closer looking... to me, more the better course, tho much more ambitious, is to vary the sizes, doing one or two larger than used to works among the usual sizes - this gives an inspirational increase in efforts to the artist involved, even if it takes longer achieving the results, and actually increases output for that... this is not to say, however [getting back to ballpoint pens] that one needs, in increasing size, to go the way of, say, Juan Francisco Casas - that is, HUGE [www.juanfranciscocasas.com]...
What to do? for one, increase the size of the rendering, obviously... but that does not appeal to a lot of ink artists because there is so much more work involved and interest flags in extending completing the rendering... understandable, especially when the more traditional mediums can render small in a much shorter time, allbeit without that nice quality of detail... another way is to increase the bordering of the finished work - larger matte and frame for instance... to a degree, this works in that it give a more professional look, and even invites closer looking... to me, more the better course, tho much more ambitious, is to vary the sizes, doing one or two larger than used to works among the usual sizes - this gives an inspirational increase in efforts to the artist involved, even if it takes longer achieving the results, and actually increases output for that... this is not to say, however [getting back to ballpoint pens] that one needs, in increasing size, to go the way of, say, Juan Francisco Casas - that is, HUGE [www.juanfranciscocasas.com]...
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