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Robert Bedoar's Gallery
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pen and ink drawings
by Robert Bedoar and giclees by Douglas Whitfield.
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For many
years, both in art school and as a professional artist, I had always opted not attempting
pen and ink as a medium. I think this notion of not being able to conquer the technique
always kept me at arms length from trying. Two artists that have had the greatest
impact on my study of line drawing and execution are Aubrey Beardsley and Alan Cober.
Both rank high on my list of visionaries who totally understood the relationship of "true"
black and white line delineation, subject matter and space.
My current drawings are actually an offshoot of a discovery I made while Senior Art
Director at the Eastman Kodak Company. I, inadvertently, discovered a small amount of white "blotting"
paper and took it to my drawing board and began testing the line delineation with my,
black India ink, double "0" Rapidograph pen onto the paper. What I found was a wonderful world of line
and clarity that I had never experienced before. The challenge of pen and ink, on blotting
paper, had been met and I was loving it! |
 Each of my drawings takes approximately 100
hours, or more, to complete. Please keep in mind, many times when almost complete with a
drawing, an accident would occur i.e.; Rapidograph pen drying out, point breaking, spillage of
anything imaginable or just deciding to take the drawing in another direction, would put me
back to square one. There aren't ways to correct errors or re-work "work" on blotting paper.
After completion of my drawings, I photograph them on a large 20-foot long Klimsh
process camera. Using several darkroom photographic techniques, I create a film positive of
my drawings, capturing ALL line work details. I do this using a still film darkroom development technique.
The film positive of my drawing is then exposed on a 500 line per inch "mesh" screen. Using a
photo sensitive material, exposed with a high intensity exposure source, I create my templates
for pulling my colors. Making sure that registration of colors is accurate, (please keep in
mind, for each color you need a film positive), I begin my edition.
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areas of color are pulled first, with registration marks far outside of the image area,
with the fine line template of my pen and ink drawing pulled last. All of my serigraphs
are hand pulled in very small editions. Please take time to study
my work. If the urge to purchase nudges you, please visit our secure "Shop On-line"
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