User:JerryStith

[http://jerrystith.multiply.com/] [http://ballpointpenart-stith.blogspot.com/]

Jerry Stith is the founder of an American folk art program titled Ball Point Pen Art. I started drawing with a ballpoint pen in 1968 and publishing on the WWW in the year 2000. Introducing what a ballpoint pen’s multi-colored oil based ISO inks can do is what my program is all about. 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.

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.

I was born on April 25, 1949 in Cincinnati, Ohio. My dad served in the Air Force for over thirty years, went to three wars and last worked on the Inspector General team via their Logistic Air Command. My loving mother raised five boys, was a born again Christian plus got me interested in art as a youth therefore truly loved. I have four brothers and one of those is my twin. Both sides of my family lived in Cincinnati for several generations so everyone was pretty well familiar with the area. My dad went to school at the University of Cincinnati and majored in business. He went from there into the military as an officer.

That meant we traveled much, experienced many different schools, bases, towns or cities plus vast amounts of people along that long hard road of life. I learned what life was as a military brat or a new guy on the block many times to say the least. I’ve moved around fifty times throughout my life which means experience was traded in for roots! That indicates meeting people with roots is in order which is where my wife and family becomes important. Needless to say, my church or God’s family come to mind as well, amen.

New York City, Boston, Cambridge, San Francisco, Los Angles, Las Vegas, Spokane, Sacramento, Boise, San Diego, Topeka, Wichita, Austin, Columbus, Dayton and Juneau are some of the places I’ve lived in along the way. I also enjoyed visiting Honolulu, Paris and parts of Canada throughout my travels as well. Each and every one of those places have galleries, museums, public art plus many stores displaying local art works that influenced my art development.

I’m by trade a portrait artist yet do animation, commercial formats, digital works, video, Digital imagery, Illustration, Cartoon/Comic, Design/Interactive, web development and some writing. It really helps if you know many different realms of the art world if pleasing the public or enjoying life is important. I love working outdoors or from life because its easier on my eyes, attracts many people plus provides a feeling for nature!

This is my tenth year on the World Wide Web as a publisher and artists. I had the largest Pen and Ink and Ball Point Pen Art sites on the Web for the past nine years as of March 2009. This year is my tenth year as a publisher and my fifty-fifth as an artist. I’m currently publishing over 2,400 ballpoint pens drawings by 155 artists at my new Multiply site. Prior that I published four Ball Point Pen Art sites with the Microsoft Network which shut down this month or March my friends.

When I first came to the WWW there were two artists displaying some ballpoint pen drawings, no Pen and Ink or Ball Point Pen Art networks. I therefore established the domain names ballpointpenart.us, net., org and com domain names. After that I spent around ten thousand hour developing or publishing 45 ballpoint pen artists, stats, pen information, colored ink/ ISO-DIN list and much more to inform the world of what a ballpoint pen can do as an art instrument, medium or movement. During those nine years I was the most published Ball Point Pen Art site and or forum via the WWW or in history. Documenting, recording, archiving or publishing what a ballpoint pen could do as a Pen and Ink medium was my desire because that producing history which is really great as an artist.

Jerry Stith 21:25, 23 March 2009 (UTC)