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About Me Official Beta Tester Traditional Artist paul tompkins29/Male/United States Recent Activity Deviant for 2 Years
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when it rains it pours...

Journal Entry: Sun Jun 14, 2009, 8:41 PM
and the flood of june 2009 has come (i just added 16 drawings all at once, and that's not the whole of it)...

i finally broke down and bought some watercolors (winsor and newton pocket pack). though i hate to say it (what with my predilection for all things ink), but i really, really like them...

i've taken up machine quilting. "Whaaa" you ask. i like to think of it as drawing with a sewing machine (i saw something on ovation tv about a girl who does typewriter portraiture in public, so there...). my wife and i actually started a business and we're now making money and being not angry at the same time :)

lots of ideas churning in my head, interesting things are sure to come...

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  • Listening to: tiny raindrops
  • Drinking: coffee

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my primary media are ink, watercolor and paper-- pens, markers, quill and brush -- cotton, bristol, vellum.

stylistically, i draw inspiration from traditional draughtsmanship, tattoo work, Dr. Seuss, coloring books and silhouettes.

most of my work focuses on the line, magnifying the outline of an object to the point where it ceases to be outline and becomes the focus of the drawing itself -- the line is no longer a line, but a compound structure of solid fill between two unbroken edges.

at a meta-stylistic level, all of my work is an illusion. representations are constructed, not transcribed--the line is no longer a line, but two edges and fill. the magic lies inside the imperceptible space between abstraction and the construction of meaning.

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  • Current Residence: Oklahoma/Texas
  • Interests: music and art
  • Favourite movie: hackers (without the fisher stevens scenes - not really his fault, but they suck)
  • Favourite artist: evelyn rydz (see my screen-shot), marcel brekelmans, BRUTE!, jamie hayes, james jean
  • Favourite poet or writer: bukowski, pratchett, vonnegut
  • Favourite style of art: ink!
  • Operating System: xp/kubuntu
  • MP3 player of choice: the one you buy for me
  • Shell of choice: tortoise
  • Skin of choice: potato
  • Favourite game: chutes and ladders
  • Favourite gaming platform: a table
  • Favourite cartoon character: penfold
  • Personal Quote: Outline, then fill *Individual results may vary
  • Tools of the Trade: paper, ink, and various instruments for applying the latter to the former

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thanks for the fav!

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Thanks for the watch!
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Loving your ATCs - check out the Favs Gallery at *ATCfanatics if you're interested in trading with fellow deviants.
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thank you for the fave.

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hey !

I got bad news ... i´m about to watch u from now on ! HAHA .. and there´s nothing u can do about it ! u´ll get cookies if ur nice to me ! and of course favs from time to time ;D. See ya and keep the good work on !

have a nice friggin dayyyyyyy :D

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works for me. how did you find little old me?

btw, synthetic death is just plain awesome!

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