Fine Art Printmaking and Original Art by Michael Halbert
This drawing shows the process of drawing Jimmy Carter, former president of the United States, with pen and ink on Ampersand Claybord. Drawing is 11 x 14 inches and drawn with dip pens using Higgens Black Magic India ink on Ampersand Claybord. I used my normal style of line work (the style of a wood engraving) but used some influences by Franklin Booth. I've been having fun and expanding my personal style lately, most notably with linework that I call "jazz line."
Jazz lines are much the same as the way jazz musician follow a general structure of a song but are free to improvise within that structure. They don't know exactly what notes they will play each time they play the song. With jazz line, I can make lines (marks) any way that comes to me and the only rule is that I have to end up with the correct values to represent the shapes and lighting. So far I have been surprising myself with new and interesting ways of making lines.