Video: Works by Shane McAdams, or a duet between an artist and a ballpoint pen
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
The tandem of a creative person and an ordinary ballpoint pen can be very unpredictable. Who knows what a writer will write armed with this tool? What melody will the composer create? Whether the designer - whether interior, clothing or household items - will come up with a project? Brooklyn artist Shane McAdams also could not predict what his cooperation with this simple instrument would result in. But as a result, you and I see these amazing abstract drawings created exclusively using the usual ballpoint pen … I cannot imagine the number of hours it took for an artist to practice and precisely to create the lines and patterns that he wields. Each subsequent work by Shane McAdams is distinguished by softness and tenderness, as if we are looking at this or that object through a haze, through a thin veil of fog. Even if the drawing resembles a stormy sky, cut by lightning and streaked with rains, it still seems that the storm is about to end, and serenity and tranquility will fall back to earth again.
If you think that all the artist's works originate in the nature that is around us, then you are not mistaken one iota. The author himself says that his drawings are about nature, landscapes and landscapes that he sees. He spent his childhood near the Navajo Reservation, admiring the mountains, prairies and fields that rained, destroyed winds and storms, thereby changing the usual landscape. These natural phenomena and the changes they bring are inspiring, says Shane McAdams.
For his work, the artist uses the most everyday materials: glue, ballpoint pens of different colors, correction fluid, thin boards, paper, as well as soft resins, which help to form on paper those abstract shapes and forms that we see as a result. Check out Shane McAdams's incredible ballpoint pen drawings.
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