REALITY DOES INDEED DIFFER DRASTICALLY
After the Gage demo. Note that the nib in the holder is not the brass-plated one (below) but a finer raw steel model, held in place with scrap paper and wood.
posted by Jim Woodring at 9:59 AM
Saturday, January 15, 2011
After the Gage demo. Note that the nib in the holder is not the brass-plated one (below) but a finer raw steel model, held in place with scrap paper and wood.
About Me
- Name: Jim Woodring
- Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
I was born in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains in Southern California and enjoyed an exciting childhood full of poetry and paroniria among the snakes, rats and tarantulas of that enchanted realm. I eventually grew into an inquisitive bearlike man who has had three exciting careers; garbage collector, merry-go-round-operator and cartoonist. Some of my work is collected in THE BOOK OF JIM, THE FRANK BOOK and SEEING THINGS (all published by Fantagraphics) and in various toys, fabrics, prints and urban legends. Thank you for your interest.
Previous Posts
- FOOTAGE OF THE NIB
- WILL IT DRAW?
- LSD-VISION WITHOUT CHEMICALS
- IN THE LIGHT OF RECENT DEVELOPMENTS
- HOW STEEL PENS ARE MADE
- ALSO AT THE FANTAGRAPHICS 4th ANNIVERSARY BLOWOUT
- THE PENHOLDER IN BLACK
- SOMETHING IN THE WAY
- GIANT PEN HOLDER, NAKED
- CAUGHT IN MOTION
12 Comments:
So, how many nibs did you make for it, then? Any calligraphic ones in the works?
So are you going to be selling any of these giant pen pieces? I'd like to own a piece of art history.
Is there footage of you making a drawing with it?
Oh and by pieces I meant the large drawings you make with the pen, not the pen itself.
Jim, I love your art.
Saw this, reminded me (in a reverse way) of your Giant Nib.
http://tinyurl.com/4zyt9dm
From:
http://lesliemiles.com/815455/Colorblind-Can-Still-Tell-A-Story
Felt you might like that.
I just want to say thanks for giving me and other interested viewers the chance to use the Nibbus Maximus; it was wonderful to be part of this crazy bit of performance art.
That's just amazing, I never think a nib can have that scale and works...
This strikes me as great photo reference for "The Apotheosis of Woodring." Now we just have to get Ingres painting again! Future art students will mistake the giant pen in the painting for a symbol. The professor will correct them: no J.W. actually had a pen that size. Generations of distortion and misconception will follow!
I've been blogging about artists discovering how to make their signature marks. I read online (blogreader.net/12) of the thrill and recognition you felt when you "finally successed in making the kind of drawing you wanted to make" with Barnyard Trouble.
I was wondering if you have a story of discovery about when you started making your engraving-like wavy pen-lines.
Sorry if you've answered that question a million times. I've been looking online and haven't found the story.
Eccentric old coot with an envious phallus scrawling a tale of
Insanity. I dare to be him , from it large head drops lucid ink black and
lossless void and trapping. from whence this mysterioso has appeared.
from bottomless pit or gaping mouth sky. God only knows. That lingering eye. Father to the blameless.
Jim woodring ponders.
I Just saw the nib and video of you using it. Its fantastic. An amazing thing to see. The final product floored me.
I was wondering if you have a story of discovery about when you started making your engraving-like wavy pen-lines.
Cool, but I think it would work better if you used more viscous ink to simulate surface tension.
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