My latest Ballpoint Pen Drawing (September 2015)

Recently I left one of my ‘base’ in Delta State back to Bauchi in a hurry and forgot my faded blue towel behind.

Anyway, the above picture is a recent sketch I made at its early stage of development. At the top left side of the picture is a folded piece of tissue paper that I use to clean the tip of the pen while I draw. The ballpoint pen often overflows when I sketch with it for too long (I use to use the towel but have found an alternative).

Below is the ‘completed’ biro sketch of the above picture.

 

To avoid accidentally staining the white paper with hand w(hile working), I use a folded sheet of paper instead of my regular towel (a method/tradition I sometimes use).

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I love Vincent van Gogh (Happy Birthday).

Showing respect on the birthday of the Dutch painter Vincent Willem van Gogh

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The faded blue towel

Yesterday, I was going through my past blog post. Apart from the numerous grammatical blunders, I noticed that a faded blue towel was featured in most of the photographs in my post.

I bought the towel a few years ago for the sole purpose of using it for biro sketches. Often times, the ink in the pen over flows so I wipe the tip of the ballpoint pen with the towel. The second purpose of the towel is to cover/protect white paper from getting stained.

I think it is time to get a new one (something more presentable). I might convert this to my painting rage for my watercolour (using it to dry/clean the brush). I have used it for almost ten years and have carried it where ever I travelled in those years.

Thanks for reading today. I invite you to ‘like’ my Facebook page www.facebook.com/art.african I would try my best to interact with you there.

Ife’ka Terry

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The Pain in Painting (Artist Statement)

Painting has not always been a bed of roses. Being an artist comes with some sacrifices. Some of us (artist) refuse to wake up from our dreams, to the point that the world think about us as insane (having our own reality). It is a sorry sight when ‘imagination’ conquers a person to the point that it becomes ‘delusion’. I have reached the point where I ask myself; why am I incessantly connected to something that cannot be defined (art)?


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Ife'ka Terry
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A few things I realised

The above image was taken a few days ago by me. It is a shot of four of my paper-collage that are available for sales. Most of the artwork (in the photo) are 5 years old.

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I am blessed with a 'truck-load' of artwork inventory, why haven't I opened a gallery?


I have 24 hours internet on my mobile phone, why am I not blogging everyday?


After asking myself that question, I NOW know what I have to do (next).



Ife'ka Terry
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First Collage (Art) for the year 2013

 

This is the collage of the week. It is also the 1st collage I made this year.

I shredded about 3 leaves of newspapers into (over) 500 particles, then I glued them together to form the image you see above.


I started the work on the 24th February 2013 and only 'completed it' yesterday (9th March 2013).


If you like this artwork, you should consider visiting my other blog that features only collage at: http://collage-artwork.blogspot.com

Thank you for visiting.

Art by me;

 Ife'ka Terry

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Recently Lost My Phone

The lost of my phone slowed me down a bit but I bounced back. Yep, it (my phone which I often use to blog) was stolen.


It time to go and sleep. I would resume blogging tomorrow. Cheers!


Ife'ka Terry
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Sunny day, good day for photographing art for website

Just after a short afternoon nap, I tried to photograph my art for my website. Back in April, my computer system had a glitch that forced me to erase all its memory.


I am able to make better photographs if I use sunlight (instead of the artificial once indoors).


I just found out I can edit pics on my mobile phone.. So I don't need to depend on a computer as much as before.



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Happy New Month of December!

Thanks God it is end of the month, it is time to write New Year Resolutions and time to prepare to spend (thereby going broke by January).

Online and in America, this holiday season is when retailers are giving out massive discount (in order to attract more customers). In my country (Nigeria), this is the period retailer INCREASE their prices (because people are going to shop anyway).

Most people live 'hand to month' or 'paycheck to paycheck' so end of month they have to make their kids happy by buying new Christmas-cloths for them, then perform a miracle by paying their children's school fee by January.

Anyway, Happy New Month of December 2012. Cheers!





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Driving traffic to my website with dull cartoons

In order to drive 'traffic' to my website. I decided to start a lazy-blog dedicated to quick cartoon-sketches.

So, when a story is tending online (on Google); I would make a lazy sketch, capture it, and join those writing about it online... Thereby getting visitors (who visited the cartoon blog while searching for the Breaking News I sketch and published). That is what I mean by 'traffic'.

I don't intend to sell anything to those visitors, I just want more 'hits' to my art-website and my art-related-blogs (and may be provoke a few comment there on the cartoon blog).

The more visitors you have on your website, the better the 'ranking' of the website on Google Search Results. It is the top ranking websites that shows up as the first 10 result/website when you search, that means the lower ranking sites are almost invisible/hidden at the 'back-end' of the search result.

What do I mean by "lazy-sketches"?
Well, most of the drawings would take a total of 20 minutes to:
Sketch,
Photograph,
Edit & Capture (digital)
and finally upload (publish online). I is literally lazy like 'pu-pu-pu-pu' and I'm done.

Anyway, I would be featuring one dull cartoon occasionally on this blog. Nevertheless, if you so wish, you could visit www.dull-cartoon.blogspot.com (which is the blog that is exclusively dedicated to showing these Dull Cartoons and Caricature).

Thanks for visiting.

Ife'ka Terry
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After 6 weeks break, behold a sketch.

On biro-sketch.blogspot.com today (29th November 2012), I ended my 6 weeks blogging 'strike' with a photo of a miniature figurative pen sketch http://biro-sketch.blogspot.com/2012/11/mini-sketch-of-female-figure.html


Until today, I haven't publish anything on the blog since October and this is due to the fact that I have been extremely busy. In fact, I nolonger answer my phone calls after 4pm. (because, it is mostly someone trying to encroach into my tight schedule, or one of my many fair-weather-friends trying to 'borrow' money they intend NOT to pay back).


I'm not only on a tight schedule, I am also on a tight budget...

So, the things I suppose to pay someone to do for me, I end up doing it myself because I can't afford the service of a hired professional. So, after closing from my days-job, I would still have a 'truck-load' of domestic works to complete.


Anyway, the above sketch was not made in my studio, but was actually drawn at my working place (office). To see the source of inspiration for this drawing, please follow this link: http://ifeka.blogspot.com/2009/09/good-good-laugh.html


Thanks for reading through. I had to publish this post quickly because my phone battery is low and would soon off. Cheers!



Ife'ka Terry
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The endless possibilities in a single moment

How dynamic life is. It is only the experienced that truly understand
'the endless possibilities that are in a single moment'.


How one decision can just change the story of your entire life. How
one incident can 'make your day a lil longer'.


One thought can change the world, one thought can change the worlds...


Anyway, its November 2012, The calendar on my room wall was still
showing September (until this afternoon when I noticed it). Since the
year is coming to an end, I simply don't know what is left of my goals
to blog more this year... Let the past be the past, I INTEND TO GO
BACK TO SCHOOL (improve my English) AND ALSO BLOG ONCE EVERYDAY...
THAT IS DEFIANTLY GOING TO CHANGE MY REALITY?


It is a 'action = reaction' thing. You can do something that affects
your reality, or you can do nothing (and still your reality is
affected in a different way by your lack of action).


My decision to go South
has affected my life in a Southern way.
My decision to go North
has affected my life in a Northern way.
My decision to go West
has influenced my life in a Western way.
My decision to go South
well, I don't have to repeat this again!? So with the southeast,
southwest, northeast, and so on.


Thanks for reading through. Check back again tomorrow and (God's
willing) I would publish a new post about what's happening in and
around the studio.


I'm STILL;


Ife'ka Terry

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Please "like" my Facebook Page Dedicated To Biro Sketch

Hello readers.

I started a  ballpoint pen art page a few months ago, You can check it out, and support me with a simple 'like'. Thanks (in advance) for the 'like'.


It is at www.facebook.com/birosketch

Thank you once more.


Ife'ka Terry

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Ballpoint Pen Drawing - Art Movement & Artist

This is the pen sketch of the week. To see many picture of me drawing with a pen, please visit my other blog dedicated to this type of medium. It's at www.biro-sketch.blogspot.com


Drawing with a pen/ink has become an art-movement in the eyes of most ballpen-artist. So, If that is true, then I am also (in one way or the other) a part of 'Art History' because, It all started in the same century (100 years).


They are some people who are trying to 'cave a name for themselves' by editing Wikipidia pages of 'Ballpoint Pen Art' (inserting themselves)... We are in the *information/digital age*. If anyone is really interested in "Ballpoint Pen Art History And It's Origin", that person would search well and beyond Wikipidia.

We all know that if civilisation continues the way its going, hard-copy textbooks might go extinct... YEAH, JUST LIKE PHYSICAL ART MIGHT ONE DAY BE AS HISTORICAL AS AN OLD BENIN BRASS HEAD.

Nowadays, ordinary amateur YouTube video are capable of inciting an international uprising (that refuse to die off). An oblivious individual is able to build a website that MIGHT get a million hit (yes, it rarely happens). 

We are in a age where (for example); you read an article that say smoking is unhealthy and another one pointing out the benefits of smoking (and when I say smoking I am talking about pot)


Just for the records, I know ballpoint pen would "live on" but just like anyother type of mediun like pencil.


Thanks you reading, please remember that the website is www.biro-sketch.blogspot.com
Have a Great Tuesday!


Ife'ka Terry
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My Facebook Art Page :)

Well, it is October again. I plan on updating my website [tugis.com.ng] this month... Hmmm... I think its already 7th of October (one week into the month).


My Facebook page is 1year old now. I didn't know this until today. I was surprise to see that it was created September 29th 2011 (how time fly's)


Okay, the page is at
www.facebook.com/art.african

I do appreciate a 'like', thank you for your support and have a fulfilling Monday (ahead).


Artist Ife'ka Terry
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quitting blogging about art

Sometimes I ask myself; 'Am I dreaming? How can I ever wake up from my
dreams of selling my art online (as a Nigerian). Should I quite
blogging or should I intensify my effort?'

Then I find one of those blog posts where the author says something liker: "failour only happens when you quit"

Quitting isn't an option right now.


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"Nothing in this world can take the place of
persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more
common than unsuccessful people with
talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is
almost a proverb. Education will not; the
world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence
and determination alone are omnipotent. The
slogan "press on" has solved and always will
solve the problems of the human race" -
Calvin Coolidge



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Ife'ka Terry
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Tools for making collage art (photo)

11days ago, I published a blog about my plans to make the largest collage I have ever made. {http://biro-sketch.blogspot.com/2012/08/getting-read-to-make-large-collage.html}.
Anyway, I haven't find the time to start (after-all, "Rome didn't burn in a day") but I intend to spend the rest of the day in the studio.


The above photo shows all the tools needed for the work (although, I would add some more 'cut-out little pieces of paper'). It is estimated that four thousand Little pieces of papers would be used to cover that cardboard).


Those little cut-out pieces of paper (as showed in the above picture), are actually part of some of my 'failed-painting attempts'. So I don't waste the used materials for the painting. Anyway, the last stage is to assemble the cut-out papers together in an orderly manner.


Thanks for visiting, I would upload the 'finished' work by Wednesday.


Ife'ka Terry
http://www.ifekaterry.com



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Just getting used to all the scammer out there

I regularly receive email from different con-star worldwide but most
are in my country.


Anyway, I just wanted to let you know that: I use to see all your
messages so keep sending them... and, you might want to know that I DO
NOT HAVE MONEY.


I am an artist for crying out load (haven't you guys heard of the
Blessed-Poverty of the Starving Artist?).


The above image is a screenshot of my private mail box, just click on the image to enlarge it.


Ife'ka Terry
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Getting ready to make a large collage artwork

I'm preparing to make the largest collage-art I have ever made in my life. It is just about one inch longer than its predecessor. Until now, the largest collage I have ever made was titled 'G-is-for-Jesus' and it was sold 4 years after her creation.


The size of the average cardboard paper (as sold in a book shop or art-supply-shop) is approximately 20.4 x 25.0 inches and I plan on making a 30 inches collage so I have to improvise (a way to attach 3 cardboard paper for the back).


The above photos are pictures of the job at different stages.


At the time I started the work, their was no light (electrical power supply) but currently, we have seen great improvement with the power supply (over here in Nigeria, West Africa). Funny because, just a few weeks ago, I published a blogs-post about the epileptic power supply at {www.biro-sketch.blogspot.com/2012/07/burning-midnight-candle.html}. May be the improvement might be due to Ramadan fasting.


If i can organise my time, this would be 'completed' in about a week from now but, I doubt if that is possible (because I am too busy at work, and when I close from work, I am usually too busy sleeping or doing some domestic or academic work)... So I forecast that the work would be done in about 2 weeks from now.


The next stage of the artwork would be to cut out the little pieces of paper that I would later glue together to form a collage artwork...
I am kind of excited about this particular artwork.


Thanks for visiting my blog today.



Ife'ka Terry
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www.tugis.com.ng is back online!

Obviously, my studio website is back online {tugis.com.ng}.


It is just a (small) Virtual-Catalogue containing samples of my artworks (usually 8 displayed images per category).

¤ Painting Gallery http://www.tugis.com.ng/index_painting_1.htm

¤ Drawing Gallery http://www.tugis.com.ng/index_drawing_1.htm

¤ Collage Gallery http://www.tugis.com.ng/index_collage_1.htm

¤ Biro-Sketch http://www.tugis.com.ng/index_sketch_1.htm or www.tugis.com.ng/biro


God-willing, I would update it by October 2012.


I have already expressed my apology for any inconveniences this (break) might have caused, although I am sure only a few people noticed that the site was suspended for over a period of one week.


Thanks for reading through.


Ife'ka Terry
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Planning on renewing the expired studio website

Recently, I got paid my allowances. Currently am at work but, as soon as 2pm reaches, I would rush to the bank to pay for the renewal of my studio website {tugis.com.ng}

The website expired back in the month of June 2012, but the hosting company continued to host/display the website until the first day of August 2012 (this is more than enough grace-period). Here is a link to the blog-post I was talking about
http://www.ifeka.blogspot.com/2012/06/expiration-of-studio-website.html

Thank God I would securing that website today. My art would be on display their (just like before) until I finaly update it in October (two months time)... Please accepte my apologies for any inconveniencs this might have caused.

Thanks for reading through.

© Ife'ka Terry
www.ifekaterry.com

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I wouldn't fall asleep

Why sleep now, When you have the whole of eternity to sleep (death).


I intend to start working at night (like working on the
"night-shift")... The good thing about work is that; for every job you
hate, their are twenty (20) people who are searching for that
position.


I pray God gives me the grace to stay awake (all night) Amen.


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The waves of crease on my Biro Sketches

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Twitter's Hashtag #tugis

Recently, I had the audacity to use the hashtag #tugis on almost all my twitter updates.


The purpose of using the hashtag #tugis was to associate the tag #tugis with the hashtag #art.


So, when a twitter user is searching for #art, he might notice that one of the displayed-result has an hashtag '#tugis' alongside '#art'. This might ignite his curiosity making him to search for the meaning of the hashtag #tugis.


Not quite a very smart idea (since too many people uses #art in their twitts).



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