Ball Point Pen Art

[ballpointpenart]

Ball Point Pen Art (http://groups.msn.com/ballpointpenart/)

Greetings, This is Jerry Stith founder of Ball Point Pen Art here on the Web. Ball Point Pen Art is a new American Folk Art, Art Medium and Art Movement.

I've been drawing with the Ballpoint Pen from 1968. I enjoy doing portraits the most yet can do many other topics. I'm located with Microsoft Network and have been there for over three years as of today. My Ball Point Pen Art network is the largest in art history and has over 700 ballpoint pen drawings.

I'm the first and only legally registered ballpointpenart site on the Internet. I own ballpointpenart.com, .net and .org. I'm developing and introducing this new American Folk Art program to the art world or general public.

The ballpoint pen is the only pen system capable of producing a half tone. That's art news and also art history in the makings. Let the Inks Flow.
Jerry Stith

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[bat]

Wow, I am near Spokane, do you have material in any galleries in the area? Also, I do bolli-tek with ballpoint, do you recognize that as ballpoint art?

b a t

[ballpointpenart]

Greetings Dan and Bat. Thank you both for a positive reply. I'm new and pleased to meet you both here at Conceptart.

Bat, I'm setting up my Ball Point Pen Art folk art program here on the Web. I don't spend my time dealing with the locals. I spent the past three years building this new American Folk Art, Art Medium and Art Movement here on the Web.

I'm interested in building this International Art Medium and Art Movement and can't get the same results with the locals. The Internet is being used to establish an International Art Medium & Movement because it reaches people around the world. The locals aren't ready or geared for such an art program. They also take too long to deal with events.

My Ball Point Pen Art network has brought in over 60,000 hits in the past 1 1/2 years and nothing that great could be done with the people around here. Spokane is however the current home of Ball Point Pen Art. Later I will spend time with the locals in order to make things around here work. However my time is much more useful here on the Web.

I have never heard of bolli-tek. Yet you say it's completed with a ballpoint pen. That makes it ballpointpenart in my mind. So what is bolli-tek?

I’ve lived in 45 different towns or cities and researched the art world as I went. This area is rather limited in the art department or more interested with music. I’m an emerging International artist being founder of a new American Folk Art and will spend my time advancing that interest first and for most. I will get much further building my art programs worldwide than dealing with the locals. Whatever works!

Thank You, Jerry Stith


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[bat]

Thank you for the reply. I understand about the locals, I am actually over in Lewiston, even further down the line, but I can get in a gallery whenever I want, so it helps out a bit.

Bolli-tek is a process that Ciruelo Cabral has invented (or re-invented, hard to say) where a ballpoint pen is used to draw upon a surface that is not absorbent (usually in my case gessoed cold pressed watercolor paper or matte paper) and after the image is drawn, alcohol is applied, either with an airbrush or sponge, cotton swab, etc and the result is pretty amazing, and really quick. I had a tutorial up online at my airbrush group at Yahoo, but I am revamping it with clearer pictures (new digital camera). After the alcohol dries, more ink can be applied, or watercolours, acrylics, etc. The alcohol breaks the ink down and many colours appear, usually enough that I rarely add to it. I can post examples if you would like to see them.

Take care!
b a t

[ballpointpenart]

Ball Point Pen Art (http://groups.msn.com/ballpointpenart/)

Greetings Bat, Bolli-tek is a process while Ballpoint pen drawings are just that, Drawings! Ball Point Pen Art/ Ballpoint Pen Art or ballpointpenart represents drawings completed with a ballpoint pen, nothing else.

The Biro brothers invented the Ballpoint pen in 1938. In most places around the world the ballpoint pen is called a Biro or Biro Pen. Only drawings fall within that parameter. Processes are certainly different than a plan drawing. That’s why what you do is called Bolli-tek not ballpointpenart!

Lewiston is to the south of Spokane. I however haven’t been to that town as of yet. We do hear of your town on the news. I don’t deal with galleries at this time for many reasons. Producing and International Art Movement or new American Folk Art program is my focus at this time. I’m recorded internationally as the founder of Ball Point Pen Art and therefore an emerging International artist. Producing art history and making a name for myself is my current goal.

After I get things more advanced worldwide and make new contacts I’ll deal with the locals around here. The art world likes to know were you have shown your art and or who bought it. Next they want to know what they sold fore. That’s nice and all yet not how I work things. Those events count on others, galleries and money issues.

My Ball Point Pen Art program is a product of thinking, planning, art, domain names, art network or sites instead. Those are things I have control over not what others do or have. My name is recorded internationally as the founder of a new American Folk Art and recorded in art history. Those are events I produced and can’t be taken away by others!

If I was placed in a local gallery that would means very little to me. It also doesn’t get me recorded in art history nor will it establish me as an emerging International artist. Seattle has some large museums, galleries and lot of money floating around, per say. Yet Spokane and the surrounding small towns have little or none of the above.

I started a new American Folk Art program and lead an International Ball Point Pen Art Movement. Which means I’m starting off my art programs at the top level of the art world. I thought that would get me more out of life than dealing with local galleries which might send me no where. Whatever works best is what people should do. Being the founder of Ball Point Pen Art works for me.

Thanks for your reply and interest Bat. I have a Yahoo group as well. Yet find it very limited or restricted. Please fell free to display your art or direct me to your group. Do you already have your art published at this location?

The art world places a large importance on us having a name or claim to fame. So are you addressing that situation in your daily affairs? Getting published within the Establishment also is part of their criteria throughout the art world. What’s up with that as well?

Food fore thought! I certainly hope you the best, Bat.

Thank you, Jerry Stith
Email: ballpointpenart@hotmail.com

Let the Inks Flow.

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Gosh man, im sorry about that reply before..i dunno what was wrong with me..i hardly even remember making that post.
I know you thanked me and all, but "sweet" is just a rude response.

Im actually really interested..what do you do different with the ballpoint that makes it note look like normal ballpoint?? I mean, I cant even see ANY strokes in any of the pieces on your site!
Is it a special paper, or a special ink, or are you just that good?

I love drawing with ballpoint pens, but I didnt know there was a real established art form and technique to it!

[ballpointpenart]

Dan, It’s all-good. People us the word sweet to describe something nice or special. I thought your reply was great. Thank you.

The ballpoint pen is the only pen system that has an oil-based ink. Today the market has some colored inks. I’m the only artist on the WWW with gold colored ballpoint pens. I’m down to my last gold pen, however. There were two companies that produced gold and now there’s none. The ballpoint pen is also the only pen in history that can produce a Half Tone. Which is wonderful for coloring, shading or starting a drawing.

Dan, the reasons you can’t see strokes in some of our art works are because we’re masters of the ballpoint pen. The Pen & Ink art medium or movement has been around for about 4,000 years. Yet today, there’s no Pen & Ink organizations, societies, groups, trade shows, conventions, art magazines around the country or here on the WWW. At least I can’t find any or don’t hear about them if they exit.

I’ve been drawing with the ballpoint pen from 1968. There are others doing it as long as I or less if their younger. If you’re doing oils every painter from the beginning is grouped together. With a new art medium the people that show up first are the leaders. We start off as leaders of a new art medium and record history as we go. Otherwise you get lost in the mix with every painter fore the past several hundred years.

We’re getting recorded in history, becoming emerging international artists and gain popularity or fame before we die. How’s that go, Your art will be worth something after you’re dead. What good does that do me now? We have the best four portrait artists on the web in our groups. The others represent the other topics of interest.

We don’t even represent most of the different art topics yet. We have no plant, bird, animal, seascape, and still-life experts showing up yet. Bic pens sells 20 million pens per day around the world. There are billions of pens sold from 1938 till today. All those pictures and artists haven’t surfaced yet. That means those of us here today are starting thing off and the art and others will surface later.

The first guy’s to reach Pikes Pike make the history books not the, come lastly people. We have a window of opportunity, art history and the Internet on our side, here today. Never before in time was that available to the artists. We sit at our desktops and transmit materials around the world in minutes. It gets recorded and the guy’s years to come find us.

Before the Internet most artists had to visit the publishers, galleries or other outlets. Those outlets took our rights, profits, edited or censored our materials while getting most of the credit. However today we can produce, art, programs, sites, networks and much more worldwide. We get recorded, make names for ourselves, gain sales, popularity and make art history as we go. What a deal! It doesn’t get much better than that Dan.

The Pen & Ink medium hasn’t developed much over the past years. However, ballpoint pen art is part of the pen & ink art movement and a great addition. We ballpoint pen artists are branching out on our own. We are on a mission and have to get the job done. We make art history and wait for nobody.

Later, Jerry Stith

[ballpointpenart]

Dan your loving to draw with the ballpoint pen is that established art form we are or seek. All artists have their own technique or style. Some of us use this modem art instrument to produce Classical Realism. Our styles are tight, impressionistic or loose by nature. Each picture makes it’s own statement or expresses an independent view of life. Observations arrive in many forms.

Your topic’s, subject matters or techniques are directional. They and others lead us down that road of history. Your art, promotions, sales, advertisement or marketing makes up our art movement. Together our networking provides the future of our lives and those to follow. Ball Point Pen Art is larger than anyone person yet unified is strength. Common interest, goals and directions bring prosperity to us all.

That’s what a new art medium brings us all Dan. How sweet that is or can be, gets determented by those doing it. Art history is a record of what got recorded! One day you’re just a guy that loves to draw with a ballpoint pen and the next you lead in history making. There comes a place in time when things come together. Your blessings are blooming and your harvest is vast. Hope and gain has arrived after all those years. God will provide and protect, amen.

Your drawings, wisdom, work and efforts have produced today! Reinforcing thoughts or emotions are based on decisions we made many years earlier. We decided that drawing with a ballpoint pen got the job done. We choose to stick with it and today our ship has come in. We get to build an art movement worldwide here on the Internet. Together we grow and prosper. So, Let the Inks Flow.

Thank You, Jerry Stith
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[bat]

Thank you for the clarification. I only know bolli-tek as a term coined by Cabral and the main point is that the ability to draw is crucial. The applied alcohol breaks the ink down, but the artist must have some measure of skill or the piece looks off. And the pen must always be ballpoint as the greasy texture of the ink, upon a non-absorbing surface, is essential for the alcohol to break down the ink properly.

Very interesting site and history. Again, thank you very much for sharing!

Take care!
b a t

(p.s. You are not missing a thing by not visiting Lewiston, it is the edge of the abyss.)

[ballpointpenart]

Bat, I would like to see some of your pen work. Learning new things is great; it’s all-good. My message boards have information pertaining to the ballpoint pen history or inks. I got blessed with some great write-ups. My front pages have my art forum listed with Bravenet. Those same papers or reports can be found there as well.

I take dives thought the country regularly, Bat. I love the small towns near lakes or rivers. The state parks are fantastic as well. I lived in cities populated with over 1 million people for 25 plus years. We have nature around us for 250 in every direction. Fishing is out there as is wildlife. I’ve been in your area south of here. Idaho, Oregon and Washington all meet near the Columbia River. I passed through that farm area and saw many small towns. I saw some young buffalos and cattle to the north.

If I were you Bat. I would think about getting the domain names bolli-tek.com, ,net and & .org. Then I would start up a group, site or location for you and the people that share that interest. Ballpoint pens work with many other art mediums. Turpentine and linseed oil works on the oil-based ink of the ballpoint pen.



I saw an artist here on the Internet make a lithograph with his ballpoint pen. He drew on the litho stone with his pens. The oil covered the surface and prints were made. The ballpoint pen is a new art medium and has many frontiers to be discovered and promoted.

The Ball Point Pen Art movement is of the people, by the people and for the people. People make up the art movement and are as vast as the users. Get the word out and protect your interest. Network your special interest and make people more aware of it. The Internet is the best tool or instrument for that.


Hundreds of millions of people search the Web. What you record is what they find. You become a building block for that field of interest. Your popular and name grows by the amount of time spent working it. The search engines are our friends. Their the backbone the WWW. Build, promote and get the word out.

Later, Jerry Stith

[ballpointpenart]

Folk art is often made up from the people in the country towns. Self-taught people are defined as folk artists. Intuitionalism in the schools, colleges or universities removes people from being folk artists. Art and culture is mostly made up with children, youth and women. Folk art captures or records our people and culture. It’s personal instead of commercial or political. However it could become those as well.

Everyone that has a ballpoint pen as his or her art medium qualifies. That brings in all users from 1838 thru today. Using the pen to produce art is our art movement at work. Giving it away, trading or selling those art works is culture. People learning or caring tradition out to a practical means. The people develop and gain through their efforts. It’s a social, political, tradition, culture, and artistic or productive outlet. Gain and unity are its buy products. A win, win situation.

People have the opportunity to advance their lives or skills in a positive and natural manner. The society prospers, grows and becomes far healthier because it’s therapeutic. People have to develop their own blessing and prosper as they go. That progress is a certain form of spiritual growth. Security and progress is a wonderful therapy for our lives. That’s why art is so powerful. There’s nothing stronger than a volunteer’s heart. Culture and folk-art is people doing what they love.

It’s all-good.

Thank You, Jerry Stith

[ballpointpenart]

Ballpoint Pen Art American Folk Network (http://groups.msn.com/ballpointpenart/)

Greetings Art World, This is Jerry Stith artist and founder of BallPoint Pen Art here on the Web. I’m a self-taught American artist that started a new art program called BallPoint Pen Art, Ball Point Pen Art or Ballpointpenart. I’m the first and only person to establish such an art program related to the ballpoint pen. I’m an American folk artist therefore my new art program is an American Folk Art program! I’m the first person in the world to buy ballpointpenart.com/net/org as my domain names. Legally that records the time, place, name or program similar to the patent number.

The inventor of the ballpoint pen was Mr. John J. Load a citizen of the United States, residing at Weymonth, in the county of Norfolk and Common Wealth of Massachusetts, patented the first ballpoint pen. That means the ballpoint pen is an American heritage an enjoyed worldwide today. Our new American folk art program is based on the ballpoint pen invented by John J. Load. Mr. J. J. Loud patented the ballpoint pen on Oct. 30, 1888, registration No. 392,046.

The Biro Brothers made improvements and has most of the world calling J. J. Load’s invention the Biro! Bic was a Nobleman and produced the world’s most favorite pen in history and sells 15 billion per year. Those ballpoint pens were used making the best carbon copies, which radically changed the government or business world. Ballpoint pen’s new colors or half-tone lines are our major features different from other pens.

Together ballpoint pens an ballpoint pen art stands in American history. The ballpoint pen and new American Folk Art program are part of our country’s heritage. All American ballpoint pen folk artists here qualify for that privilege. Artists that went to art schools, colleges or universities are institutionalized and don’t qualify as folk artists. Our art movement is based on the instrument we use or lines it produces. The ballpoint pen’s half tone lines are the best in art history and represent a new mark of excellence. Pen detailed lines have never been so extra-fine or subtle. A truly remarkable half tone polishes the picture to perfection.

Babis Kiliaris from Chios, Greece has the second largest network displaying ballpoint pen art other than us. Renee Lichtman has the largest ballpoint pen art network for a woman while Olivia received first place in a statewide art contest using her ballpoint pen at the age of 10 years old. Vincent D. Whitehead is now a National Landmark Society artist and together we make up a better an bigger BallPoint Pen Art Movement.

Our American folk art movement has the largest ballpoint pen art network on the Internet. International ballpoint pen artists aren’t part of our folk art yet represent fellow penmen. The total ballpoint pen art movement is ranked with the other pen & ink medium. Together we’re pen art and members of the art world. Much of the pen & ink movement does artworks in black & white. Ballpoint pens have dark deep rich colors or the most sublet half tone line in pen history. That’s art news and art history in the makings.

Ballpoint pen art is part of the Pen & Ink art movement yet an International art movement of it’s own. The ballpoint pen is the only pen in history that makes a half-tone line, which is the greatest camera-ready line in art history. The ballpoint pen has oil-based inks and now comes in multi-colors. Ballpoint pen art was established officially here in the United States of America. Developing ballpoint pen art or drawing Internationally or Nationally is our concern or goal. Today, we have and American folk art movement and an International art movement to organize or develop. There are 23 of the best ballpoint pen artists assembled here and improving that is our goal!

This is an update of our new American Folk Art programs here on the Internet. The ballpoint pen is one of the most sold products world wide today and makes up the largest art movement in art history. Artist and founder Jerry Stith.

[Jerry Stith]

BallPoint Pen and Ink Art Movement (Biro)

Hello Ladies and Gentlemen, my name is Jerry Stith and I’m a ballpoint pen artist for the past forty-one years. In the year 2000 I established an American folk art program called Ball Point Pen Art, Ballpoint Pen Art or Ballpointpenart. I did that by purchasing the domain names ballpointpenart.net, .com, org, and us. I actually invented the topic ballpoint pen art as a domain name plus started publishing sites, video’s, slide shows, message board post among other activities.

The inventor of the ballpoint pen was Mr. John J. Load a citizen of the United States, residing at Weymonth, in the county of Norfolk and Common Wealth of Massachusetts, patented the first ballpoint pen. The first patent on a ballpoint pen was issued on 30 October, 1888, to John J Loud, registration No. 392,046.

The pen had a rotating small steel ball bearing. As with modern ballpoint pens, the ball was held in place by a socket. It was fitted with a means for supplying heavy, sticky ink to the ball. The pen proved to be too coarse for letter writing, but it could be used to mark rough surfaces, especially leather.However, the patent was commercially unexploited and another ballpoint pen device was patented by Van Vechten Riesburg in 1916. The patent lapsed without improvement renewal.

Commercial models appeared in 1895, but the first satisfactory model of a ballpoint pen was designed by two Hungarian brothers living in Argentina: Lazlo, a journalist, and George Biro, a chemist. Lazlo noticed that the type of ink used in newspaper printing dried quickly, leaving the paper dry and smudge-free. He decided to create a pen using quick-drying ink instead of India ink. The thicker ink, though, would not flow from an ordinary pen nib and Biro had to devise a new type of point. Lazlo put a tiny metal ball bearing in the tip of a pen, the success of the ballpoint pen is due to the accuracy in which the ball is ground.

A ballpoint pen can produce three unique lines that no other pen system in history have ever done. A long flowing line, dark rich colors and the subtlest camera ready art line in history. Introducing those qualities, artists and their ballpoint pen ink drawings to the world is what my American folk art program has done before one billion others worldwide. Today, I have 5,700 drawings, 153 video's completed by 800 ballpoint pen artists archived, documented, recorded and published and that is “News Worthy” or “Art History in the makings”!

The Bic Pen Company indicated that they along sold over one hundred billion ballpoint pens several years ago publicly. That makes me wonder how many ballpoint companies there are worldwide producing similar pens? It seems to me that a ballpoint pen is the greatest writing, drawing or carbon copy instrument in history. That indicates our Point Pen Art is the largest undeveloped art movement in history!

Billions of people throughout history have used a ballpoint pen yet none of their artworks are showing up in our worldwide galleries, museums, public buildings, publications or media. That Is why I Am publishing thousands of ballpoint pen drawings, illustrations, sketches, doodles, inklings, pictures or video’s by 800 International artists. Needless to say, I Am the greatest ballpoint pen publisher on the WWW or in history and I say, Let the Inks Flow plus Keep on Creating.

Ballpoint Pen virtues!
*Four thousand year pen and ink history
*Most sold art instrument in history
*Largest undeveloped art movement in history
*Longest flowing pen lines in history
*Brightest colored pen inks in history
*Subtlest camera-ready half tone lines in history
*Only oil based pen ink in history
*Strongest pen tips in history
*Best carbon copy producer in history
*Most reliable pen in history
*Produces half tone lines from a full tone ink

Some achievements I have accomplished as an artist and publisher via the WWW over the past forty-one years. I’ve completed many different styles, formats, techniques, media plus much research to advance the Ballpoint Pen & Ink art movement.

*Published 800 worldwide ballpoint pen artists
*Commercial ballpoint layouts
* Ballpoint Animation art
*Ballpoint Video's 153
*Ballpoint Slide shows
*Ballpoint Blog
*Ballpoint Sites
*Ballpoint Digital art
*Ballpoint Illustrations
*Ballpoint Cartoon/Comic
*Ballpoint Design/Interactive art
*Classical Realism ballpoint art
*Impressionism ballpoint art
*Abstracts ballpoint art
*Multi-colored ballpoint art
*Mono ballpoint art
*Ballpoint art, drawings, sketches, doodles & inklings (5,700)
*Black & White ballpoint art
*Ballpoint Domain Names
*ISO/DIN Archival Ink list
*Colored Pen and Refill list
*Steadfast Light test results
*Ballpoint Pen History information

Please keep in mind that Jerry Stith has published more ballpoint pen & ink drawings or artists than all others in history via the WWW.

Jerry Stith
http://jerrystith.multiply.com/

[Jerry Stith]

My biography is a testimony before Father Good Almighty, amen!

Greetings Ladies and Gentlemen, this is Jerry Stith or the founder of an American Folk art program called Ball Point Pen Art, BallPoint Pen Art or Ballpointpenart. This program is introducing what a ballpoint pen can do as an art medium, instrument or movement! Ball Point Pen Art is the largest undeveloped art movement in history because of the countless billions pens sold.

I’ve had five group sites with the Microsoft Network for the past nine years that closed in Feb. 2009. My MSN forum had over 1,000 drawings by 45 artists while my new site currently has 5,700 ballpoint pen drawings, 135 video's published by over 800 artists from around the world. That means I’m the greatest publisher of what a ballpoint pen can do as an art medium for almost a decade or throughout history via the World Wide Web. [link] or [link]

The inventor of the ballpoint pen was Mr. John J. Load a citizen of the United States, residing at Weymonth, in the county of Norfolk and Common Wealth of Massachusetts, patented the first ballpoint pen. The first patent on a ballpoint pen was issued on 30 October, 1888, to John J Loud, registration No. 392,046.

The pen had a rotating small steel ball bearing. As with modern ballpoint pens, the ball was held in place by a socket. It was fitted with a means for supplying heavy, sticky ink to the ball. The pen proved to be too coarse for letter writing, but it could be used to mark rough surfaces, especially leather.

However, the patent was commercially unexploited and another ballpoint pen device was patented by Van Vechten Riesburg in 1916. The patent lapsed without improvement renewal. Commercial models appeared in 1895, but the first satisfactory model of a ballpoint pen was designed by two Hungarian brothers living in Argentina: Lazlo, a journalist, and George Biro, a chemist. Lazlo noticed that the type of ink used in newspaper printing dried quickly, leaving the paper dry and smudge-free.

He decided to create a pen using quick-drying ink instead of India ink. The thicker ink, though, would not flow from an ordinary pen nib and Biro had to devise a new type of point. Lazlo put a tiny metal ball bearing in the tip of a pen, the success of the ballpoint pen is due to the accuracy in which the ball is ground.

A ballpoint pen can produce three unique lines that no other pen system in history have ever done. A long flowing line, dark rich colors and the subtlest camera ready art line in history. Introducing those qualities, artists and their ballpoint pen ink drawings to the world is what my American folk art program has done before one billion others worldwide.

Today, I’ve archived, documented, recorded and published ballpoint pen art and that’s “News Worthy” or “Art History in the making”!

I started drawing with a ballpoint pen in 1968. While I was still in high school. In those days I carried paper and pens everywhere I went, therefore over four thousand sketches or drawings got completed. Practice, practice and practice is what it took me to become better at drawings and nothing else. I started off with a black and blue ink then obtained red plus green. Years later I discovered Lindy Pens that had twelve colors including brown and gold which really inspirited me to say the least. I have more colors within my ballpoint pen drawings than all other artists on the Web for the past nine years as of this month. March 2009 will mark my tenth year on the Web as an International publisher or artist!

I was raised as a military brat therefore moving around became a way of life. Having a portable art medium was very valued because creativity could continue no matter what took place throughout my travels. Ink helped me become bolder, confident, skilled and inspired so progress and much happiness came my way while producing works in public because of the thousands of people coming to my side for a peek. Drawing outside in my opinion supersedes using photo’s or objects indoors because of the lighting.

Pen and Ink helped elevate mankind’s entire history. Manuscripts, books, the bible, treaties, poems, songs, checks, carbon copies, drawings, documents and many other extremely important things throughout history got produced via some kind of a pen. How many of those things have you seen completed with oil paints. Oil painters always say, Oils are King of the fine arts. Well pens are the greatest writing, drawing and carbon copy makers in history plus are used to run the world not just a fine art medium. Pen and Inks are the King of kings!

Go write a check, letter, post card or sign a treaty with your oil paints. Let's pretend we have wisdom, a brain or some form of intelligence when it comes to such matters.

Hopefully many of you folks will bring out your ballpoint pens to produce another fantastic ink drawing and produce history. Please show me a camera-ready medium that can out produce the ballpoint pens extra-fine or fine half tone lines!

The Bic (Stationary) Pen Company indicated several years ago that they’ve manufactured their first hundred billionth ballpoint! It seemed that countless billions of people throughout history have doodled, scribbled, sketched, drawn, illustrated or completed inklings with a ballpoint pen. I saw that as a phenomenal achievement therefore promoting it’s artistic values became a full time project. Nine years thus far went into publishing artists, artworks, stats, ISO/DIN or colored ink information for those interested.

Ballpoint pen animation, video, comics, illustrations, digital art, interactive art, commercial layouts, blogs, slide shows, sites, drawings, sketches, doodles, inklings or other art formats have been produced by me, in order to demonstrate how versatile a ballpoint really is as a medium. Integrating ballpoint pen art into society or our social network will clearly benefit all those using this medium, instrument and movement.

I’m currently publishing 800 different ballpoint pen artists from around the world to let visitors see many techniques, styles, variations, colors, images or expressions all in one location. People can rap their minds around something until they actually see the real deal. I therefore accumulated the highest level of artworks possible in order to see quality or things that can inspire others.

A good ballpoint can produce a half mile long flowing line which increases spontaneous creativity as never seen before in art history. That mean your finished product is unique or unlike all other art mediums therefore something very special. That means the artist shouldn’t be comparing it with other mediums or media because it can stand on its own. That also means capturing action, motion, nature, animals in a field or other none stable objects can become far more enjoyable and accurate.

A ballpoint pen is the only pen in history that uses an oil based ink supply that can produce a half tone line. A full tone ink producing half tone lines is a revolutionary factor and something very important. An extra (ultra) fine ballpoint tip produces the most subtle (detailed) graphic line in history. That’s important because it elevates the sensitivity level of graphic art in the world or throughout history!

A fine ballpoint pen tip can produce more halftone lines per inch than all other camera-ready instruments because it’s the sharpest or thinnest tool on the market. The tip never gets dull, produces an amazing half tone line and is extremely effective at shading, polishing, refining, coloring or rendering while drawing. Its like drawing with a nail.

The third important feature of a ballpoint pen is its colored inks. Pen and ink has been around for over four thousand years or longer than most all other art mediums. During those thousands of years other art medium or media came along plus introduced colors instead of a pen’s black or brown inks. Inks used in all pens were water based which means dark rich colors never existed until a ballpoint came along. An oil based ink could carry far more pigments therefore deliver a much darker thicker color.

I think pen and ink took a major hit because colors never got manufactured or produced. Today a ballpoint pen has ISO/DIN archival inks, colored ink, stronger tips plus a large ink reserve which means sales sky rocketed. A ballpoint pen also produced the best carbon copies therefore it became the most sold writing or drawing instrument in history.

Along the road of life I noticed that not very many galleries, museums, public places or office buildings had pen and ink artworks hanging on their often empty walls. That means almost never would there be any ballpoint drawings displayed outside peoples homes and that is a scary concept seeing that so many billions of the pens have been sold.

Another odd observation was that very few artists got noticed working outside throughout my travels. How could so many people own a ballpoint pen and not be working throughout the public or have those pictures hanging on their walls are what I’ve always wondered. Where did all the creativity go?

How can several hundred billion ballpoint pens get sold yet so few artworks produced by them hit the market place. How often do you see ballpoint drawings in a museum, gallery, book, publication, store, magazine, periodical, hospital, office or public building and home is what I’m thinking? In fact, how many original artworks can be found throughout our modern day society?

Today there’s over one billion people registered with the WWW via an email account or some other services, which is pretty good considering peoples nature. How many times have you searched for something on the Web and not found it? If you did find something how in depth were those results? Pen and Ink has been around four or five thousand years yet no large networks represent that art medium. What a very sad statement or observation that is my friends!

Nine years ago I came to the WWW and found no major ballpoint or pen and ink sites of networks. That’s why the art community is weak, powerless or declining throughout society just like all other none advertising businesses or sectors within country. Most artists (85% of the people) within the USA never took a business coarse in school or elsewhere therefore little is actually known about our capitalistic society. That’s why they don’t know contracts, accounting, advertising, marketing, sales, public relations, promotions, production or publishing!

That’s in part why I developed my folk art program called Ball Point Pen Art, Ballpoint Pen Art or Ballpointpenart. That program provides a foundation for all the billions of people drawing with a ballpoint pen around this world or throughout time. Oddly enough my network is larger that all Pen & Ink sites as well. Why isn’t every art medium represented with a large site, forum, network, society or organization?

Look in a phone book, directory or here on the Internet and find an industry other than art not represented. Is there an organization or society representing every art medium, media or instrument that represents those using such a device. Why isn’t there a national art data base representing fine artists and the works? That would be inspire creativity, production, sales, artists our culture, society and nation plus traditions!

It seems today people put a price tag on everything yet value nothing. Many artists produce after work or as a hobby and regular sales via a local, district, state or national art data base would strengthen the art community. Artists using pens or ballpoint should strive to obtain ISO/DIN archival inks and paper to enhance the life of the artworks. If artists stop using colored or archival inks the manufacture will simply discontinue that product line. They’re interested in sales or money therefore your support is vital.

For the past nine years I’ve published more ballpoint pen artists or art works than all others in history plus information pertaining this remarkable instrument bar none. That’s “New Worthy” or art history in the makings as are my endeavors! Introducing the largest undeveloped art movement in history is what places me in art history as well as being a ballpoint pen artist!

BALLPOINT PEN VIRTUES

1. Four thousand years of pen and ink history: (A quill feather was cut and prepared to be used as a dipping pen that dominated the market place for one thousand years. Metal tips or nibs became into use thereafter for recording, writing and artworks. Most other art mediums didn’t exit, so comparing pen and ink to them is rather absurd because society was completely run with our medium) Pens have elevated every society throughout history for the past four or five thousand years like no medium and that indicates other art medium are lesser effective or inferior. Pen and Ink therefore has countless billions of supporters.

2. Most sold art instrument in history: How many people have exited over the past four thousand plus years is an interesting question just like how many pens or ballpoints have be used by those individuals during those times. Pen and Ink has a tremendous past as does the Biro or ballpoint pen. A ballpoint is being used via illustrations, animation, cartoons, lettering, as a mixed media, commercially, industrially, as a fashion tool and throughout the graphic or fine art communities.

3. Largest undeveloped art movement in history: A ballpoint pen became commercialized or first manufactured worldwide in 1938 in Argentina through the efforts of the Biro brothers. The Biro’s failed to get production rights with the United States so shortly after that date pen companies within this country retooled and produced their own models or designs. The Bic Pen Company has already sold over one hundred billion ballpoint pens and that’s only one manufactory in the world. How many of those ballpoint pens get used for doodling, sketching, drawings, inklings or illustrations? Interrogating those artworks into our art community’s infrastructure will provide hope, prosperity, gains, sales and recognition. Our art community is of the people, for the people and by the people!

4. Longest flowing pen lines in history: In the art world spontaneity is considered very important particularly if the artist is working outdoors because things are moving unlike working from photographs which is like imitating a camera. Doodles, sketches and today’s inklings are most often based on quick long flowing full tone lines used to capture action, a mood, expression or moving motion. The lines always remain the same, never thicken or dull plus keep on going throughout your creative adventure. I have more than three and a half thousand sketches from the good old days published on the Web for the beginners, youth or children of the world. They represent a level countless millions of people interested in exploring the art world can relate to!

5. Brightest colored pen inks in history: Pen and Ink has been around for about four or five thousand years or longer than almost all other media or medium. The earlier inks came mostly in black or shades of brown. India ink was about the best because it was really black plus archival therefore most excellent as a writing, recording or artistic medium. India inks are however water based which seems to work well with black yet not colors. Blacks have a different make up or properties than do colors. That means colored inks are weak, almost transparent or not comparable to other art mediums.

Ballpoint pen inks are oil based, much thicker, radiant, brighter or beautiful in compare. Now pretty, beautiful or brilliant artworks can be produced via pen and ink as never before. That’s New Worthy or a vast improvement within that art movement plus an attraction to millions from around the world. I’m not seeing any colored ballpoint pen drawings surfacing out of Great Britain or some other countries. I’m seeing colors coming out of China, New Zealand, Spain, France, Canada, India and some other nations throughout the world and that’s spectacular or a vast improvement.

6. Subtlest camera-ready half tone lines in history: Camera-ready means, ready for market or to go not first in a series of events multiple processes. In 1980-82 Parker Pens produced an extra (ultra) fine ballpoint pen tip that arrived in black or blue oil based inks. The cartridges are wide so massive lines or art works could be completed with each unit. The extra-fine tips were remarkable thin or much like drawing with a nail. Those tips got removed from the market place or selves because of limited sales.

The extra-fine or fine ballpoint pen tips produce an amazing thin line and that’s extremely important within the graphic art community. Eloquence, sophistication, perfection or exquisite line work describes graphic art works using very detailed lines therefore such words are appropriate for our ballpoint pen drawings. Why! A ballpoint pen can produce a half tone line that is subtler than all other graphic or fine art medium so such descriptions do apply. A new detailed or thin line elevates the sensitivity level of mankind and that’s a extraordinary statement to say the least.

7. Only oil based pen ink in history: Oil based inks can produce a half tone lines from a full tone ink supply, carry more pigments used in making brighter colors plus enables better storage. Some ballpoint pen’s have an ink reserve that can produce a line three quarters of a mile long! That indicates lots of fun, freedom or creative expressions to me, my friends.

8. Strongest pen tips in history: A strong ballpoint pen tip enables it to produce an outstanding carbon copy, stops breakage, lets it work on many rough surfaces, work upside down, underwater and in deep space. Sometimes it even works as a prying, scraping or digging device.

9. Best carbon copy producer in history: A ballpoint pen revolutionized record keeping, government, business because of the ability to make an excellent carbon copy!

10. Most reliable pen in history: A ballpoint pen is portable, study, reliable, effective therefore extremely popular or the greatest writing and drawing instrument in history and is being used to run society.

I started doing art around fifty-five years ago my friends. Crayons, paint by numbers set, pencils, colored pencils and ballpoint pens introduced me into the art world of fun. Tempera paints, water colors, construction paper, glue, colored chalk, felt tip markers and charcoal elevated me to the next round of achievements. Clay, wood, metal wire, paper Mache, pastels, oil pastels, conte’, graphite, acrylics, pen and ink, copper enameling, metal sculpture, lighting, murals, pressed leaves, photograph, silk screening, enamel cuttings, leather, commercial layouts, lettering, digital, animation, design and producing video all added more feathers to my hat.

Mix medium or combining media brings our art community together. The general public is rather limited to what they learned in schools. Applying those experiences to the commercial world, pricing, contracts, record keeping, shipping, insurance, museum or gallery presentations, advertising, marketing, sales, promotions, public relations or publishing is beyond most artists comprehensive level.

Most artists are hobbyist, social butterflies, unorganized, not focused, uneducated or not money oriented therefore makes our community very weak as an over all political group. Many artists are so open minded that their brains fell out! They’re trying to enter into a capitalistic system totally unprepared as if that works in the job market. It seems like the many artists are their own worst enemy!

Are you complacent, inexperienced, ignorant, shy or just plan not interested? The museums, galleries, publishers, media and investors all have degree’s, lawyers, advisers, appraisers and many others all working against artists for power, profit and control of the market. If you don’t know pricing, the game, have a name, reputations, backing, success or a great plan you’re pretty well at the mercy of the establishment. What do you think my friends?

Do you remember the old days before the WWW came into existence? When most artists never got published, recognized, displayed, bought or because famous until after their death. The good old days. Today an artists can sit at home, in the office or elsewhere and publish their ideas, plans, art works or biographies worldwide as never before.

The Internet opened up the world for an artists because we could now display our expressions or art internationally, bring in a profit, get exposure, increase popularity or become an international figure without publishers censorship. It also meant that an artist could reach an audience of a billion people plus receive most of the gains from the fruit of their labor.

Most publishers and galleries demand a lion’s share of your profits in order for their services or business side of the relationship. That meant the artist does a picture and the establishment does all the rest. (Advertising, sales, marketing, distribution, public relations, promotions and the rest.) Today an artist on the Internet needs to do each and everything within that process. So artists need to wear more than one hat, increase their business skills, become better writers or up grade their level of sophistication.

How many networks, portals, search engines, sites, message boards, groups, forums or places are you indexed with are so things each person on the Web should be asking themselves. Google your name or programs to see how popular or easy it is to find you. Are your artworks surfacing on the Image or video search findings? The Internet has to be programmed with information if such is expected to be found on search engine results. Your charming personality, cute smile, lovely smile or social network doesn’t bring results on the WWW my friends. Laziness doesn’t pay off on the Web or throughout our business sectors. Pretend don’t work off people.

Most people come to the Internet to join several art forums and maybe build a site or have one built for them. They post their artworks of photos, post some information, a brief biography then set back for the world to come their way. Some seem to forget that nobody around the world has a clue of their existence, never saw anything they did or couldn’t find such materials on a search engine result.

There’s a billion people registered with the WWW and over all none of them know of your existence people. Why should they? What makes you different, great, desired, wanted or worthy of the worlds interest with so many others selling their materials or artworks? You might be fantastic or a legion in your own mine yet a nobody to the rest of the world.

When people do a search on the Web what should they inter into the box to find you? People either search particular names, places or topics. Which of those will your artworks surface on? If you are found is it on the top of the first page or last on the thirtieth? If you’re with a forum or have a site is your art easy to find or navigate? In the art world a name is very important therefore your should be easy to find as should your art. Stop thinking others are going to do your business, run your advertising campaign or marketing programs. Put on your thinking caps and get busy getting busy.

BALLPOINT PEN ART MOVEMENT

Introducing BallPoint Pen Art as an undeveloped instrument, medium or movement. A ballpoint pen’s first patent was in 1888 by a Mr. Loud and manufactured fifty years later by the Biro brothers out of Argentina in 1838. Five years ago Bic indicated they manufactured one hundred billion ballpoint pens and that’s only company. I therefore wonder how many over all ballpoints really got produced throughout history?

If a ballpoint has been sold several hundred billion times why haven’t the artworks produced by them surfaced in our galleries, books, museums, publications, our archives or in societies public buildings? Why does the art world repress the largest undeveloped art movement in history. How does society benefit, find gain, produce opportunity or advance our people by knocking down this art movement?

A ballpoint is part of the Pen and Ink art movement therefore should have support from many of those people in addition to some of the countless billion users. The art community has failed the artists, not taken advantage of a fabulous product line, ignored a ballpoint pens virtues plus limited their own growth or development. Millions and millions of people are drawing with a ballpoint pen therefore what they’re doing is a national treasure and should be treated as so.

The internet has taken a tremendous amount of power away from the galleries, art brokers, agents or publishes and placed it into the artists or our hands. The WWW has changed the world, many marketing rules, idea’s plus opened up plenty of opportunities. I spite of that the establishment disregards materials published to a much larger audience on the Web by classifying it as invalid. You can therefore publish your art on the WWW and still have hard copy publishing house ignore it.

Publishing Houses reach several millions of people, take a lions share of your profits, totally control an artists rights, ignore most people and if they decide to print your materials. That also indicates hard copy publishes disregard 99% of the artists, writers, poets, ect. plus denounce everyone posting their works on the WWW. They also ignore most new art movements if they don’t have controlling interest in such endeavors.

In the years 2000 I could only find two artists displaying a few pictures completed with a ballpoint pen. There were no domain names, networks, forums, portals, Image results or video’s to be found. There weren’t and Pen and Ink networks as well. Some art forums that represented most art mediums did have a section dedicated to inks yet very little more. That demonstrates how weak artists are when it comes to their own art medium or interest.

Search the Internet to see how many art mediums, instruments or movements have their own network? If you can’t find an organization, society, forum, network or group representing your art medium start one! How clear can I make it? I the person that represents Ball Point Pen Art, BallPoint Pen Art or Ballpointpenart here on the WWW my friends. I published more ballpoint pen art, artists, information or facts about my medium than all the other billion people registered on the Web and that News Worthy and history in the making.

This is my tenth year on the WWW therefore I’m getting pretty good at finding materials. I also have some exceptional radio programs that are play during my adventures here on the Web. That means I’m learning much as an artist and publisher. If you watch search engine results year after year as I’ve done you’ll find many new entries. There’s are now hundreds if not several thousand ballpoint pen artists posted on the Internet and most of them look like beginners and or represent the dark side of life. It seems like many of those people should learn more about realism, in my opinion!

When I started off my realism was rather rough needless to say. However that changed for the better after doing several thousand sketches and some drawings. I love working from life, outdoors or in real time. Many people today work indoors from photographs, light boards or projectors under artificial lighting which is of coarse produces a totally different mood. Do you consider that as progress?

In the first nine years I registered with about forty different places throughout the Web. That certainly increased my search engine results, Image findings or video listings. I listed everything by topic not by name. Why? People mostly do topic researches in order to see what’s going on around the world and from there narrow their findings. After ballpoint pen art became recognized my name followed! It took seven years for ballpoint pen art to become listed in most meta search Image listings and longer to be enclosed in video results.

It seems lots of people join a forum and maybe develop a site then expect sales, great exposure or big time recognition within the first couple of years. If you join an art network or forum that has thousands of others plus don’t register with many search engines your finding will prove to be very limited. All large business or corporations advertise via commercial artists yet most fine artists don’t. Go figure! How come commercial artists help run the world while too many of the fine artists are clueless pertaining to advertising?

Hopefully my words will give you a better view of my activities, interest, goals or opportunities. Most important, I'm a servant of Jesus Christ, child of God and born again Christian, amen!

Cheers,

Jerry Stith
http://jerrystith.multiply.com/

[Jerry Stith]

COLORED BALLPOINT PENS AND REFILLS (PACKAGES)

I’m posting 55 major ballpoint pen or refill names that are on the marketplace. There are many different colored pen packages or refills within this list. I’ve been on the WWW from the year 2000 therefore realize ballpoint pen artists are having difficulties locating oil based ballpoint pen. This list will certainly help people locate new materials to work with. Do you have any colored pens or refills not found on this list?
Your friend, Jerry Stith

1. STAEDTLER® 10 colors: ball 432 ice colours
2. OMAS BALLPOINT PEN REFILL FOR 360 COLLECTION
3. OMAS BALLPOINT PEN REFILL
4. MONTBLANC CLASSIQUE, BOHEME, STARWALKER BALLPOINT PEN REFILL
5.LAMY PDA REFILL
6. FABER-CASTELL D1 MINI BALLPOINT PEN REFILL
7. DELTA BALLPOINT PEN REFILL
8. CONKLIN BALLPOINT PEN REFILL
9. BEXLEY MULTI-MAX BALLPOINT PEN REFILL
10. AURORA MINI OPTIMA BALLPOINT PEN REFILL
11. AURORA BALLPOINT PEN REFILL
12. MONTEVERDE ARTISTA KIT BALLPOINT PEN
13. Staedtler® 1.4 Maxum™ Ballpoint Pens
14. Staedtler® 1.6 Maxum™ Ballpoint Pens
15. STAEDTLER® stick 430 M
16. STAEDTLER® stick 430 F
17. Schneider® Express 735 Giant Ballpoint Refill
18. Parker® compatible Schmidt® P900 M
19. Schmidt® Pressurized Refill to Fit Parker
20. Schmidt® Refill to fit Parker® Ballpoint Pens
21. Schmidt Easy FLOW 9000 Refills
22. Schmidt® Broadpoint Refill to fit Parker Ballpoint Pens
23. Schmidt® Mini BallPen Fine point Refill
24. Rotring® compatible Mini Ballpoint Ink Refill
25. Schmidt® P950 Megaline Pressurized Refill
26. Schmidt® easyFLOW 9000 M Refill
27. BALLPOINT REFILLS FOR LAMY
28. WATERMAN BALLPOINT REFILLS
29. Sheaffer Standard Ballpoint Refill
30. Parker Standard Ballpoint Refill
31. 4 color Multi System pens refills M21
32. 4 Cross Refill Colors
33. Schneider® Express 56
34. Schneider® Express 785
35. Schneider® Express 775
36. Schneider® Express 735
37. 4 colors ballpoint pen
38. 10 colors ballpoint pen with kid model/promotion design on top
39. Grand: 10 color ballpoint pen with rope on top
40. 4 colors ballpoint + 1highlighter (on top)
41. Multicolor Pen 4 colors ballpoint
42. Rainbow 10 color ballpoint pens
43. Grand Multicolor 10 colored ballpoint pen
44. 7 Multicolor Ballpoint pen
45. Pentel RSVP 7 ballpoint pen colors
46. 10 Color Ball Pens
47. Reporter 4 Compact
48. Monteverde Cross® compatible Ballpoint Ink Refill
49. Parker 10 color ballpoint pen refills
50. Cross/ Waterman ballpoint pen refills
51. Sensa & Fisher ballpoint pen refills
52. Schefeild: Frosty 9 color ballpoint pens
53. Shanghai Weijun 12 ballpoint pen colors
54. Schefields Easygrip 7 ballpoint pen colors
55. Schefield Prism 10 ballpointpen colors

Jerry Stith
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[Jerry Stith]

Do any ballpoint pen artists use archival ballpoint pens or refills? Here's a list of archival ballpoint pens or refills I've found. Does anyone know of any colored archival ballpoint pens not on this list?

BallPoint Archival Oil Based Inks: DIN/ISO 12757-2
*Papermate Stick 2020 Fine Red P27325
DIN standard ink for high standards of performance
*Papermate Stick 2020 Fine Grn P27345
DIN standard ink for high standards of performance
*Papermate Stick 2020 Med Grn P27645
DIN standard ink for high standards of performance
*Papermate 2020 Blue 1.0 tip Stick
DIN standard ink for high standards of performance
*Stick Ball Pen Medium Red
forgery-proof paste conforming to ISO 12757-2, line width M
*Stick Ball Pen Fine Blue
forgery-proof paste conforming to ISO 12757-2
*Stick Ball Pen Medium Black
forgery-proof paste conforming to ISO 12757-2
*Stick Ball Pen Fine Black
forgery-proof paste conforming to ISO 12757-2
*Stick 2000 Pen Medium Blue
DIN standard ink for high standards of performance
*Stick Ball Pen Fine Red
forgery-proof paste conforming to ISO 12757-2
*Staedtler Mars Multiple Casings or body designs, 430 Stick Medium,
Line width F, M, indelible ink conforming to ISO 12757-2
*Schneider SIMPLY FUNCTIONAL
*Giant refill EXPRESS 225 with wear resistant stainless steel tip
*Refill EXPRESS 75 with wear resistant stainless steel tip
interchangeable refill, waterproof ink ISO12757.2 A2
*Schneider: Express 740 ballpoint refill X20 Giant Refills ISO 12757-2H
*Stride Inc Schneider® Express 775 Permanent ink is ISO 12757-2H.
Medium point is 0.6mm. Fine point is 0.4mm.
*Stride Inc Schneider® Express 775 Permanent ink is ISO 12757-2H.
*07751 - STI - (UPC: ) Schneider Express 775 Ballpoint Refills - Fine (BLACK)
*07752 - STI - (UPC: ) Schneider Express 775 Ballpoint Refills - Fine (RED)
*07753 - STI - (UPC: ) Schneider Express 775 Ballpoint Refills - Fine (BLUE)
*07761 - STI - (UPC: ) Schneider Express 775 Ballpoint Refills Medium (BLACK)
*07762 - STI - (UPC: ) Schneider Express 775 Ballpoint Refills Medium (RED)
*07763 - STI - (UPC: ) Schneider Express 775 Ballpoint Refills Medium (BLUE)
*07764 - STI - (UPC: ) Schneider Express 775 Ballpoint Refills Medium (GREEN)
*Stride Inc Schneider® Express 785 Permanent ink is ISO 12757-2H.
*178601 - STI - (UPC: ) Schneider Express 785 Ballpoint Refills - Medium (BLACK)
*178603 - STI - (UPC: ) Schneider Express 785 Ballpoint Refills - Medium (BLUE)
*Stride Inc Schneider® Express 735 Medium point line width is 0.6mm. Fine point line width is 0.4mm. Ink is ISO 12757-2G2 waterproof.
*07351 - STI - (UPC: ) Schneider Express 735 Ballpoint Refills - Fine (BLACK)
*07352 - STI - (UPC: ) Schneider Express 735 Ballpoint Refills - Fine (RED)
*07353 - STI - (UPC: ) Schneider Express 735 Ballpoint Refills - Fine (BLUE)
*07361 - STI - (UPC: ) Schneider Express 735 Ballpoint Refills - Medium (BLACK)
*07362 - STI - (UPC: ) Schneider Express 735 Ballpoint Refills - Medium (RED)
*07363 - STI - (UPC: ) Schneider Express 735 Ballpoint Refills - Medium (BLUE)
*07364 - STI - (UPC: ) Schneider Express 735 Ballpoint Refills - Medium (GREEN)
*Stdtler Retractable BallPen Tub10 42125S Retractable ballpoint pen
blue forgery-proof paste conf. to ISO 12757-2
*ZENO Ball Point Pen
permanent black ink conforming to DIN ISO 12757-2
Solid tip with HAUSER Ceramic Ball writing strokes SF (0.6mm)
writing capacity: 0.9g / 1,000M
*Parker Pen
*Parker makes archival quality refills conform to the ISO standard ISO12757-2
*Pelikan Perfect 237
colours: blue, red black With the permanent ink conforming to DIN ISO 12757-2.
Widths: F = fine (0.8 mm Ø), M = medium (1 mm Ø), B = broad (1.2 mm Ø)
Solid tip of stainless steel, tungsten carbide ball

The ballpoint pen companies new archival inks are being marketed as (security inks or pens)

Jerry Stith
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[Black Spot]

You're getting repetitive and thus boring.

Do you actually make a living from your art?

[Jerry Stith]

The top colored ballpoint pen packages I've located on the marketplace.
Enjoy my friends

1. 10 Superior Quality: 10 colored ballpoint pen pack.
2. ColorTech: 20 colored ballpoint pen pack.
3. Prism: 10 colored ballpoint pen pack
4. 10 Rainbow: colored ballpoint pen pack
5. Jell Tek Rainbow: 7 colored pack
6. Pentel: Firestick 10 colors all in one pen
7. Pentel: Coca-Cola Bear 10 colors all in one pen
8. RoseArt: 6 colored pack
9. A&W: 10 colors in one pen (I’m told yellow is one of those 10 colors)
10. Staedtler 10 colors: ball 432 ice colors
11. Schefield prism 10 ballpointpen colors
12. 10 Color Ball Pen of Assorted
13. Bic Mini Crystal Pens (France)
14. Monteverde
15. Sanford
16. Grand
17. Fisher
18. Reynolds
19. Arty Crafty Rainbow Neon
20. Shanghai Weijun

Jerry Stith
http://jerrystith.multiply.com/

[Jerry Stith]

Ballpoint pen artists might think of doing some of these things is improvement is of interest!
Enjoy my friends, Jerry

1. Create as many scribbles, doodles, inkling, sketches, renderings, drawings or illustrations as possible.

2. Obtain archival ISO/DIN ballpoint pens or refills.

3. Obtain as many different colored ballpoint pens or refills.

4. Obtain acid free or PH neutral paper.

5. Work outside or from life as much as possible. (totally recommended)

6. Look into new archival surfaces. (non paper)

7. Produce a statement pertaining to your life or background.

8. Express your views about what mediums or media you’re using. (promote & recognize virtues)

9. Help as many other people or artists as possible. (providing information or support)

10. Learn perspective, form, lighting, texture, shading or how to draw.

11. Read art magazines, booklets, books, articles or reviews pertaining to the art world.

12. Study advertising, marketing, sales, promotions, public relations, production art, publishing.

13. Visit art galleries, museums, groups, openings and public exhibits.

14. Organize, photograph or scan your artworks.

15. Frame, mat and display your artworks around your house, studio or office.

16. Give away as many sketches or artworks as you can.

17. Try to get your friends or family members involved with your art.

18. If you draw from pictures buy a camera and work from your own materials.

19. If you’re working from a picture enlarge it as big as you can.

20. Use natural lighting as often as possible if working in doors is of interest.

21. Learn as much as you can about pricing. Investigate commercial art price scales.

22. Look into art contracts, laws, copy rights, practices and reproduction.

23. Make your own business cards, stationary and letterheads.

24. Produce your own blog or web site.

25. Post your art or words of wisdom on many message boards, networks, forums or social networks.

26. Learn how to operate different software programs.

27. Experiment many different mixed media or medium.

28. Communicate with other artists.

29. Speck highly about yourself. Count your blessings not your sorrows!

30. Maintain or support morally, ethics, virtues, principle and decent values.

What do you think? (can you hear me now?)

Jerry Stith
http://jerrystith.multiply.com/

[Jerry Stith]

2008 Ball Point Pen Art (Hall of Fame) listing

Jerry Stith Founder of an American folk art program called:
BallPoint Pen Art, Pall Point Pen Art or Ballpointpenart

This list of forty-five ballpoint pen artists on my 2008 "HALL OF FAME" listing with a Microsoft Network group site that existed about nine years. Needless to say the WWW or Internet has change much during the past decade. My readings indicated that there’s over one billion people worldwide registered as users or surfers!

Over the past decade I’ve completed some serious research pertaining to the ballpoint pen art movement. I can clearly state that those on this listed made up the greatest gathering of ballpoint pen artist on the Web during that time period. These forty-five artists posted over one thousand ink drawings in order to demonstrate to the rest of the world what a ballpoint pen could do as an art medium. Those works made up the largest or greatest ballpoint pen collection on the WWW or in history.

My new Multiply site currently has 5,700 ballpoint pen drawings by 800 artists published for your enjoyment. Cheers, Jerry Stith

1. Jerry Stith
2. Babis Kiliaris
3. Vincent D. Whitehead
4. Don McIntire
5. Jason Powell
6. Don Stewart
7. Joseph Edwards
8. Dolors Barberan
9. Edward Leavy
10. Laurinda Behrens
11. Ron Zilinski
12. Dean Williams
13. Eric Cook
14. Eric Ventour
15. Justino Magalona
16. Dennis Kinch
17. Peggy Hosfelt
18. Renee Lichtman
19. Joseph Capuana
20. Shane Williams
21. David Flower
22. Dennis Carlisle
23. Alvin Burt
24. Greg Pennington
25. Joshua Armstrong
26. Jhonatan Linares
27. Haruki Funadamat
28. Janice Hardacre
29. Alan Vaughn
30. Jenny Sibley
31. Pat O'Doherty
32. Murray Cholowsky
33. Luke Dempsey
34. John McDonald
35. Maureen Wolff
36. Lawrence S Currie
37. Oaken Forbade
38. Gregory Kimble
39. Randy Nore
40. Kevin Eason
41. Emma Cox
42. Zach Carpenter
43. Tunji Akinloye
44. Mark Jephcott
45. Olivia

Jerry Stith
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[Jerry Stith]

204 BallPoint Pen Artists:
POSTED, Mar 16, '09 12:25 AM

BALL POINT PEN ART MOVEMENT top 204 ballpoint pen artists that are coming up on my search engine results. The position of the name doesn't indicate quality or my favorites. (My 2010 List is being prepared!)

This is a list of the best ballpoint pen artists that I’ve been able to locate on the World Wide Web as of March 2009. Our BallPoint Pen Art, Ball Point Pen Art or Ballpointpenart movement represents the most popular writing, drawing or carbon copy marker in history. Hundreds of billions of ballpoint pen have been purchased and used throughout the world and history therefore I’m recognizing some of the best artists found on the Web.

1. Jerry Stith 2. Babis Kiliaris 3. Giuseppe Borrello 4. Allan Barbeau 5. Vincent Whitehead 6. Andrey Hrenov 7. Don Stewart 8. JanFabre 9. Phillip Blackman 10. Juan F. Casas 11. Ron Zilinski 12. Dean Williams 13. Daniel Villescas 14. Jason Powell 15. Pa Fredrik 16. Randy Nore 17. Edward Leavy 18. Gregory Kimble 19. Justino Magalona 20. Don McIntire
21. Linda Behren 22. Mark Jephcott 23. James Mylne 24. Eric Cook 25. Emma Cox 26. Dolors Barberán 27. Ferran Serra Ferrer 28. Joseph Edwards 29. Timothy Rees 30. Darren Bayley 31. Debra Blanksby 32. Aristides Ruiz 33. Clement Yeh 34. Chris Hack 35. Liam Sultzaberger 36. Shane Williams 37. Raphael Sassi 38. Aydin Kaya 39. Andrew Paquette 40. Mary Jo Kehne

41. Kimberly Robello 42. Jhonatan Linares 43. Pierre Lapalu 44. Butt Johnson 45. John Tresadern 46. Rubén Fernandez Rojo 47. Harry McCue 48. Ranganath Krishnamani 49. Eric Venture 50. Dennis Carlisle 51. Darren Reallyloud 52. Joseph Capuana 53. David Flower 54. Haruki Funadama 55. Erik de Haan 56. Lindsay Polson 57. Simon Rankin 58. Thomas Schoch 59. Conrad Keely 60. Vanessa Prager

61. Mark Cubitt 62. Dennis Kinch 63. Larry Roibal 64. Curt Brill 65. Scott Fertig 66. Von Allan 67. Adam Sacks 68. Djibril N'Doye 69. Rodney Gee 70. Jennifer Kraska 71. Ian Robinson 72. Beth Cravens 73. Tunji Akinloye 74. Caitlin Kenny 75. SRStott 76. Vladimar Kaydanov 77. David Titus 78. Koukla Carolyn 79. Joshua Armstrong 80. Rebbecca Kimmel

81. Victor Elberse 82. Jim Conte 83. Jason Crow 84. Ruth Borum 85. Abdellah RamRam 86. James Jean 87. Taylor White 88. Jay M. Garfinkle 89. Alex Suelton 90. Anne Ross 91. Alfredo Gómez Jr 92. Troy Howe 93. John Potter 94. Scott Fertig 95. Susan Goodall 96. Gabrielle Sloane 97. Andrea Joseph 98. Matt Ritchie 99. Marty Harris 100. Ian Marsden

101. Alvin Burt 102. Kevin Michael Williams 103. Jason Needham 104. Renee Lichtman 105. Peggy Hosfelt 106. Hope Gangloff 107. Melissa Kojima 108. Antti Suuronen 109. Scott Robertson 110. Matt Jameson 111. Noel Dwyer 112. Marco Bucci 113. Erik Heyninck 114. Beverly Thames 115. Jamberry Meyers 116. Chris Silverman 117. Marian Bantjes 118. Gina Combs 119. Kathryn Jabcobi 120. Greg Pennington

121. Jon-Paul McCarthy 122. Eric Terry 123. Gladys Sica 124. IL LEE 125. Tony VanGroningen 126. Andres Castro 127. Glyn Price 128. Alice Meichi Li 129. Murray Cholowsky 130. Chris Legaspi 131. Janice Hardacre 132. Carl D'Alvia 133. Jenny Sibley 134. Henry Moore 135. Robert Todonai 136. Gabrielle Sloane 137. Butch Hancock 138. Javier Garcia 139. Tristan Henry-Wilson 140. Lucy Camill Wade

141. Kevin Eason 142. Erica Eyres 143. Matt Kirk 144. Pat O'Deherty 145. Oaken Forbade 146. Eldar Zakirov 147. Alan Vaughn 148. Marcia V. Lynch 149. Julius Guzy 150. Beck Ryan 151. Sonja Kerkhoff 152. Naina Redhu 153. R. Paul Stewart 154. Mike Doscher 155. Mike Stuart 156. Jay Garfinklle 157. Juan Gomez 158. Samantha Simpson 159. Frederick Thompson 160. Thomas Nozkowski

161. Azita Mirzaian 162. Brian Dunn 163. Daniel Curtis 164. Harvey Tulcensky 165. Chelo Amezcua 166. Bill Adams 167. Michelle Segre 168. James Siena 169. Joanne Greenbaum 170. Elizabeth Murray 171. Stephen Talasnik 172. David Humphrey 173. Katia Santibanez 174. Philip Knoll 175. Glenn Goldberg 176. Yassir Amazine 177. Daniel Wiener 178. Suzanne McClelland 179. Alexander Ross 180. Jennifer Coates

181. Carroll Dunham 182. Shizu Saldamando 183. Robert Fordham 184. Bill Dotson 185. Laith McGregor 186. Victor Elberse 187. Corey Tompson 188. Andy Cook 189. Karthik Abhiram 190. Avril Lavigne 191. Gary Pope 192. Austin Kuck 193. Jason Rudolph Pena 194. Minney Diana 195. Paul Alexander Thornton 196. Jenny Lopez 197. Vincent Cheng 198. Marc Bolan 199. Jan Fabre 200. Chris Hack

201. Aydin Agah Kaya 202. Mary Jo Kehne 203. Pierre Lapalu 204. Ranganath Krishnamani

Jerry Stith
http://jerrystith.multiply.com/

[Jerry Stith]

Ten Point Program

1. Collections: The different collections will demonstrate styles from around the world. The different collections will mark the history of this recorded beginning of Ball Point Pen Art. The patent was in 1938 for domestic usage which means 63 years artists could draw with this medium. My art usage of BallPoint Pens dates back past 41 years to 1968. Other collections or artists will surface, demonstrating styles, color, line, shadings, shapes or multiple subjects. A Historical document of Ball Point Pen Art/ BallPoint Pen Art it’s development and expanding throughout time. A new millennium will mark our further. The birthing of this new art medium is pre 2000. Time records the development and growth into the twenty-first century. My guidelines or directions will clearly display a complete range of art related actions.

2. Archives: This would show the art world international styles or development, with varies cultural practices. The archive would have collected global pictures demonstrating wide interest or subjects. The art works completed with the BallPoint Pen is a universal treasure. Here in the United States of America BallPoint Pen Art/ BallPoint Pen Art was founded as an American Folk Art.

3. Half Tones: The advancement of the Ball Point Pen Art via this new style made possible only with an oil base ink supply. The BallPoint Pen has the thinnest point or tip of any standard art tools, delivering and oil-based ink forming the most detailed line in Art History. The BallPoint Pen delivers oil-based ink while all other pen systems use water-based inks. The half tone is part of Art evolution at this point in time. Recording this expression in art history is what we are doing here now and throughout time.

4. Colors: 10 different colored inks used in constructing Ball Point Pen Art. Can be shown with Lundy Pens or several other colors of different manufactures. This places the Ball Point Pen Art in history as another colorful art medium. The interest in this medium will develop as the information or money making happens. There are hundreds of millions of artists that await the economical growth through art sales or sponsorship or related interests.

5. Products: commercial usages of the camera ready Ball Point Pen Art. Having copies of color without those color separations make this stage of publishing every so simple, from the days of old. Make a simple color print or color lazar copy. This can lead to inexpensive production of informational matter's or the product field. The material product will indicate sales material. This can represent income for most artists. Usage fees or in that area of royalties of the art works.

6. Portraits: Different pictures being offered in this new medium, Ball Point Pen Art. The black and white or colored, both has backgrounds available. The imaged or the solid colored ones. The portraits are based on the first thing color. The one color without any background. The next would be multicolored portraits ranging in areas of colors, cold or warm in nature. The backgrounds would be base on material you bring up. Person most provided all material for the pictures or the backgrounds.

7. Contests: The surrounding support groups are those that often drag their economical development of the artists, forming this or other new international art mediums. The Ball Point Pen companies take in close to three billion dollars per year selling their pens. Take a look on the percentage or amount spent on the development of there on interest. The next revolution on their pen industry is Ball Point Pen Art. The archive and contest or advertisement is the way those pen companies can place this interest together. Their paid plan is the tracts of history along with our art. The Ball Point Pen Art medium is bigger than any one artist and takes a collection or people or events thru time in order to make it work.

8. Media: All the Art media which are promoting this new art medium as their own interest being their place in history is counted up as they take part. The door is wide open in this field of interest and those making it work. The shaping of the art world and our lives are before us again. Every person has the opportunity to develop his or her interest or part of this great art medium. Paper magazines or journals will print their outlook in this field. Introducing what selected knowledge's or views about Ball Point Pen Art. Recording furthers out of the past that will form tomorrow’s artists lives.

9. Publications: Wants the artists gets their originals organized what's next? Getting them published would be in order. Ball Point Pen Art is a New World Class Art Movement. Being a new Art Medium plays an important event pertaining to the publication field. It's new in the Art World. The Art magazines, news papers and other media have many different things to present our American. History is in the making and it's the job of these different media outlets to bring this to the Art World art large. Produce new Art!

10. Educational: The opportunity to teach Ball Point Pen Art in every University or Collage around the world. All major Museums or Galleries would display our works as well. Teaching the international community how these art works will fit within society at large. The economical interest is what the artists want to see. The ability to make a great living off of something counts with those with families.

Ballpointpenart.com is my first Internationally registered domain name. This site to be will have a commercial portrait service, information, links, pricing, contracts, law, copyrights plus our opinions. Ballpointpenart.net is our other domain name. This site would represent, communications, other artist’s works, educational, children references and related links. A networking place for organizing international ball point pen art works and the artists. We will present a total program based on societies infrastructures. The programs will be covered within this site.

Thank You,

Jerry Stith
http://jerrystith.multiply.com/

[Jerry Stith]

Ballpoint tips and inks

1. tips: strongest pen tips in history
a. extra-fine: I have some drawings completed with the extra-fine tips that went out of production in 1981-82 and came in black or blue. The extra-fine ballpoint pen tip is the sharpest camera ready line in art history. that extra-fine tip was like a nail and therefore took many, many line to build up colors. The extra-fine tip was extraordinary for blending, polishing or starting off a drawing.

b. fine: Today, a ballpoint pen's fine tip size produces the sharpest camera-ready line in our art world. I’ve been say this for the past five years and no one has produced a medium or line that matches or beats this claim! Use a fine tipped pen for starting off a drawing because the half tone line is very subtle or light. Any mistakes or starter line can be left as is or covered up with a darker line. I never erase or use graphite with a ballpoint pen ink. If you focus and start off with a very subtle or light line changes can be made with darker line or ink.

c. regular: The regular tip is also called a medium. This tip can produce a half tone plus a solid long flowing line. The line can be dark, long flowing and produce a reflection if really piled on thick. The medium tip is good for making dark areas and will certainly saturate a paper with ink when stacked or piled on greatly. Most people use a regular tip for writing therefore we know what that can do.

d. bold: The bold ballpoint pen tip is another history making item. The bold ballpoint pen tip and ink supply produces a full tone long flowing line as never before and is fantastic for working from life. Needless to say its the best ballpoint tip for coloring in dark areas. It also delivers more ink than any other tips therefore the refection is greater if used to pile or stack on inks.

2. half tone lines: The ballpoint pen is the only pen system in history capable of producing a half tone line with a full tone ink. Lifting up on a pen produces a half tone and pushing down or adding pressure makes a full tone. The half tone almost never reflects or shines as thinker inks can do. A half tone line is great for starting a drawing, shaping, forming or polishing up a drawing like no others! The ballpoint pens half tones are the subtlest in drawing or art history.

a. extra-fine, fine: These two tip sizes are the best for polishing a drawing or doing other sensitive areas. They also are great for starting off a drawing, blending, smoothing or sharpening edges or lines already on a page. If blending colors is of interest these tips are the best from my experience.

3. bold lines: A ballpoint pen has a tremendous ink supply that makes a remarkable long flowing line. A ballpoint produces the quickest long flowing lines in art history. That quick or bold long flowing line certainly is best for capturing nature or motion in life. Its much easier for me to draw people or nature in motion with a fast moving tool or instrument and a bold tip is great at doing so.

Doing outdoor drawings or impressionism this instrument works perfect. A bold long flowing line produces life, a refreshing or colorful drawing and something very special other mediums just can’t do. Many artists on the Internet draw from a photo. Sharp or slow moving lines make up those works and certainly don’t deliver what a dark bold line does from life.

a. bold, regular: The bold and regular (medium) tips are best for doing full tone lines. A bold or regular tip can produce a half tone line yet thinner points work better. These two tips deliver the most ink therefore works best with darkening or filling in areas. They make the best blacks or dark colors than all other pens.

A bold tip delivers a colored full tone line or flow no others pen systems can produce. That wonderful bold flowing line is a historical event. Its a flow never seen before in pen’s four thousand plus years of history. A ballpoint pen sells hundreds of billions because of that nice flowing line. When these tips are used for stacking thick inks a thin paper will certainly warp or buckle. they will also shine and take much longer to dry.

4. black & white: The ballpoint pen first arrived in black. Blue was the second ink then I think red came along. Black and blue were for writing and red for accounting. I used pencils for five years before a ballpoint. I learned what black and white was all about plus how to draw with a pencil. I however went to a ballpoint pen ink for quicker, cleaner and darker lines. A stacked black ink will shine and most likely out last all colored inks.

The black ballpoint pen ink produces a darker area much quicker than a pencil and the tips never become dull or break. Most thick black inks will shine and dry slowly. It is smart to let a very dark area dry for several days before finishing or piling on more inks. When it dries for several days or weeks new inks will certainly make the area darker. If piling on heavy inks is what you desire papers over 120 lbs are best.

Watercolor, rage or soft papers work best because they absorb the inks much better. Hard papers will absorb far less inks, smear and most often warp. If you desire a very quick line shiny or hard surfaces work best yet handle blotches or absorption less. Quick lines with a fine tip can cut through a sheet of paper or trash the surface of a textured or rage paper.

5. multi-colored: The ballpoint pen delivers a full or half tone colored line without changing pens or inks. I can stack colors to produce the richest pen & ink drawings in history. A ballpoint puts a darker, richer or more vibrant color on a page than all other pen systems. My luscious colors far exceed a tech or dip pen inks or drawings. Those wonderful colors bring a new life to the pen & ink art movement. They also speck well of the ballpoint pen art movement!

The medium or bold tips pile on inks the fastest yet polishing or blending colors work better with fine tips. Yellow, red, pink and light purples are the thinnest inks and therefore smear or blend well. You can start of with light colors and cover up your lines with darker line rather easy. Going over yellow is a best when it is dry. If you do dark colors first then add lighter colors things often work out best.

I often use many different pens to do a dark red or other color. Each pen company has a different ink or shade of red therefore many brands will enhance the total color. The same stands true with black inks! If I do a blue and pile on other colors using a half tone line the finished product will be much richer to your eyes. Put down a dark color and blend with other brands of the same color or use lighter colors to enrich the finished color.
If you do a black area add, green, blue, red, brown on top of that then finish your area with a black to really make it dark. When you scan a dark area sometime under colors might show through! If that happens adjust your scanner or add a darker color on top.

6. mono: (one color) A mono colored ballpoint pen drawing is one color. I did more red drawings than any other ink color. I really loved doing gold ink drawings as well. Blue and green are two more mono colors used in the past. I need to do a mono colored drawing with each color I have. We’re recording ballpoint pen art history and every new area we can represent will build our art movements historical base.

7. blotches: Most ballpoint pens produce small blotches of ink on the top of a pen’s tip when drawing quickly. Fast action with a bold tip will produce that ink build up quickest. When, I work quickly or outside blotches simply add color, character and style to my drawings. Piling on lines and color is the name of that game. Boldness and color is more important with or without any blotches than details or refinements in such pictures. If blotches bother you clean your tips often or very often with a rag, cardboard, tissue or thick paper. Simple place the tip on a soft surface and twist the pen till all ink is removed. Alcohol will remove the inks off a tip quickly.

8. reflection: Oil base inks simply produce a reflection, shine, sheen or burnout spot on negatives. Remember, oil paintings are king of the fine art mediums and shine like an oil painting. Some ballpoint pen inks dry flat while others shine. This might show up when scanning or using a flash camera. Your light source will determine if there is going to be a shine or refection, therefore pick your angle correctly. If the ink reflects a scanner light or flash bulb its called a burnout. Other mediums can warp a paper or reflect a flash bulb or light as can a ballpoint.

9. by products: When a drawing is completed prints, books, limited editions, posters, post cards or other items can be produced from such a work. The incomes of each by product is your royalties and that helps increase your originals prices when sold in volume.

Thank You,

Jerry Stith
http://jerrystith.multiply.com/

[Elwell]

You're getting repetitive and thus boring.

Do you actually make a living from your art?
Mr. Stith is the Dr. Bronner of ballpoint pens.

[Jerry Stith]

You're getting repetitive and thus boring.

Do you actually make a living from your art?
Hi, I'm pleased you're reading my post.

(If people aren't interested in ballpoint pen art they won't visit my two threads!)
How simple can it be?

Did you visit my new gallery? (I just uploaded 60 pictures)

My people perish do to a lack of knowledge! (Ever hear of that statement?)

(Money has nothing to do with the blessings "Father God Almighty provided me, amen!".

How May I help You?

Mr. Jerry Stith

[Elwell]

See what I mean?

[Ryan K]

Wtf...

[Arshes Nei]

Jerry,

Please chill a bit on the wall of text. I was actually going to ban you because I thought you were an honest to God Spambot. I see you have a couple of other threads in Art Discussion. Let's keep it to one of those and not make it look spammy going everywhere.

Thank you.

[brad.houghton]

This is hilarious... I don't even know what to say lol, but please let him keep going :D

[karma militia]

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[Arshes Nei]

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[pretentieuse]

Mr. Stith is the Dr. Bronner of ballpoint pens.

You guys are knocking it out of the park tonight.

Mr. Stith, take a page out of Bronner's book and manufacture ball point pens. Write a book unlocking the secret medium of back-row sketching in mathematics class. By all means, continue to enlighten us here at the fine CA.

Enjoy Two Tones Mind-Body-Soul ONE! The second coming of God is here! Follow the BallPoint Moral Abc!"

I really love that soap, so his ball-point pens better be just as good if not better.

[Black Spot]

Hi, I'm pleased you're reading my post.

I'm not, my eyes glazed over after the first sentence of that wall of text. I'm only here for the wit of other CA members.

[karmazon]

I have a ritual called ‘terminator’. I crouch in the shower in the “naked terminator” pose. With eyes closed I crouch for a minute and visualize either Arnie or the guy from the 2nd movie. I then start to hum the T2 theme. Slowly I rise to a standing position and open my eyes. It helps me get through my day. The only problem is if the shower curtain sticks to my terminator leg. It sorta ruins the fantasy.

[arttorney]

You guys really should be reading this stuff. Ballpoint artist #44 is Butt Johnson.

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