Untitled Scribbling Drawing - Completed Assignment 5

 This is my final piece for assignment #5. I used two full blue ballpoint pens and created a non-objective art piece. 

I have drawn with ball point pen since junior high, but mostly drew with it in high school. I would have spiral notebooks for my classes and write class notes with ballpoint pen in the front and draw/doodle it the back of the notebook. I would spent most of class in the back of the notebook just writing words all over the page in the lines. I would write the words the teacher was saying but sporadically and not in any sentences.

After the page was full of words I would then draw over top of them geometric shapes, lines, circles, waves, and much more. After most of the page was full of these dense ball point pen shapes, I would draw more over top of those ones and shade them in. The pages in my notebook would curl and wrinkle and shine with all the ink. When you looked at these pages with layered pen you could see the words I first wrote and the second layer and the third and sometimes a forth if there was room. I loved drawing with ball point pen and would constantly run out of ink. I did this to multiple notebooks and multiple pages. I loved it. So I was excited when this project was introduced as I have not used ballpoint pen as much as I did in high school.

For this work I decided to make it non-objective and just create this piece without a concrete plan in mind. 

 

I did know though that I wanted bold lines around my piece showing where it started and ended and that I wanted my scribbles to be circular to get the little "stars" by crossing over the scribbles multiple times in one section. I think it turned out great and when you look closer you can see the little stars in the scribbles. 

If I could change one thing about this piece it would be not to tape off the boarders. Yes they look great and the line is really clean but I do not think it really makes sense for this work. Is still like it and think it looks good with the boarders but if I could do it again in the same style, I think I would not use tape. 

Here are some pictures of my work in progress:

And here is my planning:

I know I wanted to do something with the golden ratio and a spiral first because spirals look look, second because they guide the viewers eyes through the piece, and third lots of artist use the golden ratio in their works, forth it helps with balance in a piece. 

Many great artists use the golden ratio, here is a list of a few:

• Leonardo da Vinci
• Botticelli 
• The Birth of Venus multiple times in the painting
• Portraits, bodies, landscapes
• Dali
• The Sacrament of the Last Supper also used multiple times in the painting
• Giant Flying Mocca Cup with an Inexplicable Five Metre Appendage (absolutely love this work)