A Complication of Digital Art… visibility

When you work digitally you have a piece that naps on your hard drive or storage device until called for. People don’t get to discover the actual piece of artwork that you can hold in your hands. The piece here is a drawing that I did in 2016 but has never been output. A friend is going to try to get it reproduced for me. I’d love to have it kicking around. Somebody might even see it and buy one. How about that? Someone might figure out that I can draw you anything that you might want. Commission work is awesome. Always ready to hear from you. I’m as far away as your phone or your computer and looking for work.

Last week a nice fellow from Norway contacted me to obtain rights to use a drawing that he had seen on FineArtAmerica. We came to an agreement and it will be used for commercial purposes overseas. When the usage is in fact underway I’ll let those of you following my blog know where they can see it or even buy it.

I’m pretty enthused about seeing the Tractor reproduced large. The original was about 60 inches wide at my working resolution of 300 dpi. I’m looking for an Illustrator’s Representative in New York City. If you’d like to sell my work to magazines, newspapers and the like… Get in touch with me at the BucksArtist Gmail address. And just a reminder that my drawings are available at Fine Art America by clicking here. Nothing will happen except you’ll be able to see how my art might look on your wall. A good friend of mine, Bill Oakes – also in Tucson, has requested that I head SouthWest in my drawing topics and I do plan to do just that. Spanish Missions, rattlesnakes, horses, native american imagery, Chiricahuas… More Geronimo, more Cochise. Pima Indians. While I have no plans to switch to 100% one way or another… I’m going to do a lot more reflective art originals. Framing costs a bundle though. It will all even out. Strathmore 100% cotton plate finish Illustration board and a rapidograph are my favorite things. Scritch, scritch, scritch…

 

Trip to the Art Supply store…

Needed to go get a couple art things this morning. Did a search on all the Art Supply stores in Tucson, AZ on Easter and finally got around to going this morning. Went to Arizona Art Supply up on North Oracle between Wetmore & Limberlost. Blond lady with pink hair helped me. Very pleasant. Grabbed a three pen set of Black Sakura – Micron Drawing Pens. Sizes – 01 (.25MM), 03 (.35MM), .05 (45MM). For fair balance I also bought a Uchida – LePen Drawing – Black 0.03 Technical Drawing Pen. I’ve made many miles of lines with earlier versions of LePen in the advertising agencies back East. Bought a Canson Sketchbook 9 x 12 inches for drawing on a smooth surface. Sixty sheets in that book. Looking forward to sliding that pen around and losing myself in my work here in Tucson.

Going through cycles with the drawings. Started by doing Scrimshaw on Whale’s Teeth. Went to a Crow Quill dip pen. Adopted technical pens of all sorts before, during and after Art School at Parsons. Always drew on Strathmore Illustration that was all rag with a nice plate finish. I the past few years I’ve enjoyed drawing on a Wacom graphics tablet – using a program called Painter. It feels totally right compared to working with a Faber Castell Technical Pen. I even rolled the barrel every so often to clean the tip of the pen. I drew with a Fountain Pen for a while and liked it. I didn’t commit to it though as the manufacturer/distributor in NJ wouldn’t answer my emails about the ink properties and how to obtain more. Stainless Steel Fountain Pens with two refills under $5. Model V301.

Now I’m going back to a Micron pen on real paper and seeing how I like it. Looks good to me. Things that I’m looking for – a dense black, no smearing, no offsetting onto my hand. Not so thin an ink that runs into paper fibers too quickly. Still waiting to move into an apartment… and once I do I plan on going back into genuine technical pens with FW ink. An awesome combination.

tomorrow

I think I’ll be moving this weekend to a spot in South Tucson. I’ve heard of it before and prior to voicing an opinion I’ll have to give it some time to see how it really is there. It is along Old Benson Highway.  I’ve been well taken care of since last September and have mentioned some of my “sheltered existence” in earlier writings. It was fortunate I was there when I took some big hits healthwise. Could have been pretty serious (for me at least) if I just went to sleep. I had friends around me that looked out for me – like Bill and Charlie. I owe them a debt. My Caseworker, Stephanie Robles, did a fine job in getting my SPDAT info where it needed to be and that was the key to this Rapid Re-Housing opportunity with Primavera.org.  God bless them all.

About to reboot my Artistic self that has been hard aground since last September. When you are sitting proud on top of the world – working nearly 24 hours a day, living for the weekend, paying dues for being married and raising a couple of children, you never imagine that they’ll all attack you and drain the blood from your veins someday. You’d expect someone to have your back – not be planning the most damaging shot into it. My family is like a Cicada shell jettisoned onto heavily traveled cement years back. Ground daily into fine dust that even a forensic detective would have a hard time finding with a microscope. (Like my love for them). Those people? They have to see themselves in the mirror every single day. Perpetuate a lie from Mommy that they apparently believe. Inbreeding on the Ex-Wife’s side. Check that DNA. (Theme from Deliverance) Hey, please… Prove me wrong. Not my problem. Not at all. I miss my late brother and my parents but it stops there. Even my friend in New Jersey has gone silent. Lots of dead people there in the East. I miss the paintings in the Brandywine River Museum. Wish I had one of those paintings. I will. I really will. Starting fresh in the Sonoran Desert. Ready to enjoy most minutes of most days without guilt or remorse. Done the best a man can. Hand me my pen. Thank you.

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Thank You so very much! Patronage…Yay…

An Angel bought one of my drawings of the Sunflower from FineArtAmerica/Pixels.com on Sunday. I appreciate the purchase and hope that you like it a lot. Brightened my week for sure. Thanks. Going to see a whole lot more as soon as I get my new place. I promise you. The compulsion is certainly there. Pens, paper, pencils, and a drawing board. Can’t wait. Looking for an apartment in Tucson. Desperately. A view maybe. Not too particular – just clean and in working order.

Uploaded the “imagine” Drawing to Fine Art America this afternoon. I enjoyed working on the drawing and eating the reference too…

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©2018 WBeauchamp

©2018 WBeauchamp

I took my drawing of the Turkey Drumstick and typeset the word “imagine” in Garamond Light Condensed and put them together. I’ve always felt that an important asset that adolescents lose when entering adulthood is the free thinking ability to pretend. I, myself, never stopped picking things up and pretending that they could fly… So – If you can – let your kids watch their cartoons, play with their food, and live in a world of their own thinking. Adult pressures eat you up as you get older. It really is okay to pretend. That bit of brain elasticity is key in creative problem solving later on in life.

Somebody might even go on to become an Artist… perish the thought. Or, as my Dad used to say “Grow up will you Bill?” Nope. That does not fit my current agenda.

Been drawing my friend Henderson from some portraits I shot and that will probably show up here in the next couple days. He hasn’t seen it and it will likely be a surprise. Last night I listened to the old Dragnet radio program streaming in as my entertainment while working. A couple others afterward as well, with the likes of Orson Welles. So many of the early TV shows came directly from the radio.

Hope everyone had a wonderful weekend. Still don’t have a new job lined up. Resumé is out and I’m trying. Really trying to locate an Art oriented job. Quite important. I was miserable doing something else. Different sensibilities than mine. That’s all. I am pleased that last night I sold prints of the Spring Soft little Bunny, Lady Cardinal, and the Sunflower in color all to a single discriminating buyer from Scottsdale, AZ. I sure appreciate the business. Thank you very much.

As a matter of fact – Considering employment… I’m uploading my latest Resumé to this blog and anyone who has a great idea that I should pursue… Feel free to download the PDF file and pass it along to potential employers. My laundry is done and I could start somewhere else as early as tomorrow morning. Or tonight in a pinch. The contact info is all right there. Hire me… Please. The link below works fine. Curious? Download it.

This should be a link to download my William C Beauchamp Resumé    Beauchamp2018A

My “Spring Soft Little Bunny” is available as a Fine Art Print and more through FAA Fine Art America as well as throughout Europe and the rest of the World. Can also be found at a Deck the Walls near you.

Today I posted my Bunny on Fine Art America and it can be found here Bill’s Art  – Feel free to check it all out. Notably it’s all for sale. I’m job hunting right now and surely could use your business. In case anyone decides to do so – Thanks in advance. Even greeting cards are available. The coffee mugs look nice. I like the Shower Curtain too.

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Drawing again… Moving to finish drawings in progress… Will free up some space. Fish, birds of prey, Ravens… They are all coming –

Many marks to make. Many drawings to do. And I will too. You betcha.
excerpt above: ©2018 William Cauffiel Beauchamp, Tucson, AZ

Beats the hell out of wondering if the Winter Flounder metabolism had warmed up enough for them to bite on the outgoing slack tide tomorrow…

Purple ©2018 WBeauchamp

Sun Grid ©2018 WBeauchamp

Took some shots waiting for the sun to go down last night. I enjoy the product and will shoot some new ones today. Dust is off the capture device now so I will escalate the activity in my available time. Got a haircut yesterday and I feel more like myself today.

Image making is heating up… Went through the first week of my new work schedule at C3. Very tired. Concentrated on getting reference together and doing some Portraiture this weekend. Digital tune up.

Today I got up and cleared some old images from my memory cards and charged the rechargeable batteries for my camera. It was supposed to be overcast with showers this morning but it really couldn’t seem to make up its mind. While I couldn’t see the sun it was apparently there anyway. We had a wide rainbow under cloud cover. The sun broke through occasionally and I talked my friend Will Henderson into letting me shoot some simple portraits of him. I shot Olympus RAW format ORFs and some are below this text. I didn’t want anything too fancy – just reference images. They turned out alright.

Beauchamp Sunflower Drawing – Prints