October 2010

This ATC is typical of the scribbles that decorated my class notes starting around age 12. Bored out of my mind in junior and senior high school, I only half-listened to teachers. (Yes, I regretted that later.) Instead, I drew a variety of designs, usually a series of connected images like the one at left. […]

The next ATC (artist’s trading card) in my pen-and-ink art experiments features my husband’s desk chair. I drew it with a Size 0 (zero) point technical drawing pen.  I’ve been using this kind of pen for art since I was introduced to them by a college friend, Darcy Grimm. The ink is called Ultradraw, and

My second ATC in this series  of six shows our living room fan.  It’s one of those huge grey fans that, on the high setting, blasts you like you’re in a wind tunnel. Drawing it was sort of a challenge.  I mean, there’s a lot of detail and shading in the actual fan.  Deciding what

ATCs have always been dear to my heart.  From the 1990s when many ATCs were created on 3″ x 5″ cards, to the 2.5″ x 3.5″ size that became more standard, to the smaller variations that have emerged: ATCs are fun, fast art. Recently, I purchased a new rapidograph, also called a “rapido sketch pen.”