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Inspiration form Artists Wk 145 Bonus Artist : Dina Brodsky
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Welcome to this weeks bonus artist thread , the artist I am featuring this is fits in nicely with the discussion on the forum about tree sketches and as I was researching for that I discovered this artist last Wednesday.
Dina Brodsky , born in Belarus and moved to the USA when her family immigrated in the early 1990s.
Her formative years were spent in Massachusetts, between Boston and Amherst where she went to college . This is a statement she made in an interview “ My first week at university at 3am while I was working on a homework assignment for a foundation art class, I took because I thought it would be early to pass the time before dropping out university and hitchhiking around Europe. It was a self portrait was working on in charcoal something that was new to me and I became so absorbed more so than anything else possibly ever . It was I realised where I wanted to be every hour and days of her life.”
She started drawing from sketches and photos taken on her travels then sketches of family and friends. Whist at university she sketched trees as warm up exercises and this led to a project ‘The Secret Life of Trees ‘.
Her trees are mostly drawn with a ballpoint pen, in her own words “ Ballpoint pen is the only drawing tool I’m comfortable with, it’s been my favourite tool for over ten years. I like the level of control you can get with a ballpoint Aldo that fact that it doesn’t allow for erasure and creates and immediacy of sorts, I have to focus on the drawing in front of me “.
Information from Dina Brodsky The Secret Life of Trees .
Dina also like and paints miniature .
I hope you enjoy my selection of her excellent artwork.
I have limited my selection as I could quite honestly post many many more.
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These are superb beyond compare - but, to quote Della Street from the Perry Mason films, one thing puzzles me Perry....
Whenever I've used ballpoint pen to draw, they blot - little, ineradicable blots; and the ink degrades - bleeds through the paper, changes colour, sinks into the paper's weave. A late and much lamented friend of mine - one or two know about Barry Rawlings, who had enormous innate talent combined with a manic-depressive personality - occasionally drew in black ballpoint, and didn't seem to have this trouble - but I don't know how he, or this artist, avoided it.
Maybe I need better paper or higher-quality ballpoints, but I think I had these issues even with cartridge paper and Parker pens. I'm never going to achieve Ms Brodsky's expertise, but would be interested if anyone has thoughts on this. I see the texture on the paper in some of these drawings, as if she's laid down a layer of acrylic priming, aka (wrongly) "gesso" - I wonder if she had similar problems and tried that as a means of avoiding them? Someone else to look up and study - these discover-an-artist threads are never-ending sources of education and inspiration, all thanks to Mr Dean.
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Another find Dixie, such interesting work. I, like most of us I guess, have doodled with ball-point pens...usually when I should have been doing something else. I never felt moved to use it for 'real' on a decent piece of paper. It was liable to get scruffy as Russell said. Clearly there's more to it than using cheap-as-chips ballpens. Like this artist's wonderful drawings, I've seen some amazing ball-point artwork on line.
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