Jerry Stith

Greetings folks, this Jerry Stith the founder of an American folk art program referred to Ball Point Pen Art, Ballpoint Pen Art or Ballpointpenart. I’ve been on the WWW from the year 2000 as an art, publisher, researcher and video producer. Providing ballpoint pen art a platform or home base has been my goal during that time span. Posting information pertaining to colored ballpoint pens, refills or colored pen packets, ISO/DIN archival inks, artists names, artworks, videos and related URL’s or links has been taking place in order to help others. The Bic Pen Company reported five years ago that yet alone have sold one hundred billion ballpoint pens. Needless to say that a lot of ballpoint pens, many purchases or a worldwide best selling product. Pen and Ink has been around for the past four thousand plus years, is one of the first art or writing mediums that helped shape, advance or improve every society throughout the world. A ballpoint pen is used for writing, carbon copy producing or art which in turn elevated almost all realms of society! A ballpoint pen has three major virtues that no other pen system in history has achieved. A ballpoint pen is the only pen ever produced that has an oil based ink delivery system. Many ballpoint pen can produce a mile long flowing line, brilliant or dark rich color plus an exquisite half tone. Imagine producing a half tone line from a full toned ink if you may. The ballpoint pens ultra-fine or fine tip produces the subtlest camera ready line in history which in turn elevated the sensitivity of art worldwide. The long flowing line is spectacular for creating spontaneous artworks or for capturing motion, life and nature in real time. Last yet not least is are its deep rich or outstanding ink colors. That very important because that places it on the same level with many other art mediums. I think that Pen and Ink was held back because that art movement never developed a color medium. Nature arrives in color so reproducing, capturing or imitating it is rather difficult with only a black ink or medium. India ink was however an archival medium which is exceptionally important in the art world yet still not of color. Today, however a ballpoint pen does arrive on the marketplace in color as well as an archival medium. Again that places a ballpoint pen on the same level or same footing as many other art mediums. Those developments have tremendously increased the Pen and Ink or Ballpoint Pen and ink art movements as never before. Please remember that the Ballpoint Pen Art movement is the largest developing art movement in history! Educating the public of a ballpoint pens virtues and providing them a home base or forum certainly helps improve our art medium and movement. I’m currently publishing over 800 ballpoint pen artists names, 5,440 artworks, 153 videos, information and facts therefore archiving history is taking place. Nine years of my life has gone into archiving, recording, publishing or documenting ballpoint pen art in order to advance the Pen and Ink art movement. A ballpoint is just one pen system that makes up the Pen and Ink Art movement yet it also stands on its on was an art medium or movement. How can the most popular or sold art medium in history go unnoticed or not get recognized by the public is what I keep asking others? I started off an American folk art program called Ball Point Pen Art in order to expose what a ballpoint pen can do as an art medium, instrument or movement. Now other people or artists on the WWW have produced such a program, verbalized such virtues or facts yet alone publish so much information pertaining to Ball Point Pen Art. History indicates me doing such makes me the leader of the International Ball Point Pen Art movement. The facts speck for themselves as do my artworks, publications, video and written statements! My site http://jerrystith.multiply.com/ shows thousands of scribbles, inklings, doodles, sketches, renderings, drawings or illustrations for your enjoyment. I’ve also advanced the ballpoint pen art movement by creating and publishing ballpoint pen art videos, animations, commercial formats, digital variations, mono drawings, black and white pictures or multi-colored drawings like no others before me! All those things plus much information is archived for you knowledge or pleasure folks. Have a blessed and prosperous day, Jerry Stith