| Pepper Pogue, an artist from
Big Rock, Tennessee has been working with pen and ink for some time. Pepper has
an extensive collection of drawings that she has created and we feature some of
them here. In addition, she has
converted some of our
photographs into pen and ink
drawings that are then processed into high quality limited print
reproductions on heavy paper stock. Read how Pepper describes the artistic style
and technique that she uses to produce these drawings. It usually takes her
anywhere from 40-80 hours to make each one of these pen and ink drawings:
"I start off by making a rough pencil sketch of my subject
from one of your photographs and then I render it in pen. I don't always stay
100% accurate to the entire photo; although I try to stay as close to the
main subject as I can, I often find that I want to simplify something in
order to gain clarity on the primary subject.
"For the original pen and ink drawing, I use pigment ink
because it does not run or fade on heavy water color paper. The technique I use is
Stippling or Pointillism mixed with a little crosshatching. Pointillism
is the technique of creating an artistic composition comprised of nothing but
dots. Cross-hatching is the hatching of
a surface with parallel lines in two or more series that cross or overlap. Or,
more specifically, cross-hatching features the crossing of a series of drawn lines
of various lengths, widths and at various angles, with which the artist
constructs areas of shadowing or modeling. For the background, I just go
with what I like, as in the rocks or grass or sometimes nothing at all.
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Westhighland
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