Pen and Ink Details: March 2009

Monday, March 16, 2009

Tippecanoe County Courthouse Poster, 1st Printing Rolls Out

The Tippecanoe County Courthouse Poster has been printed and is now available. This small thumbnail gives you a glimpse of the poster, which at full size is 12 in x 18 in.

If you are interested in buying a copy of this fine poster, please contact us.

For larger thumbnails of a few of the illustrations in this poster, click here.

Index of Illustrations

This post is intended to be an index of the illustrations here at "Pen and Ink Details."

By clicking on a link below, you will be able to find the post where illustrations of these particular destinations can be found.

Other items:

Article linked to Chris Truelsen's Interview with Mike Loizzo at WBAA, Purdue University

Saturday, March 14, 2009

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Friday, March 13, 2009

Tippecanoe County Courthouse Drawings Finally Finished!

Having spent many years growing up in Tippecanoe County, Indiana, I always enjoyed the beauty of the Tippecanoe County Courthouse. Apparently there was a point years ago that the county thought of tearing it down. Glad they didn't! What a tragedy that would have been!

Soon to come out of my workshop will be a poster featuring 9 sketches of details of the courthouse. The 9 sketches are complete, but I have yet to go to

print.

Below is a sneak peek of a few of the drawings. I'm really quite pleased with them. I hope you like them too.

The drawings were completed March 13, 2009, and the poster will be on sale in a limited edition in the Lafayette area. If you're interested, contact me at this site, and I'll help show you where to purchase a copy. -Chris Truelsen

Saturday, March 7, 2009

New Poster Available at the Gallery on Pearl

One of New Albany Indiana's best known landmarks is the subject of a new poster presently available at the Gallery on Pearl. This poster called "Culbertson Details" includes some of my finest pen and ink work yet.

The poster features a large illustration of Culbertson Mansion in the middle, with various details from the facade of the mansion in smaller frames around the main picture.

Even those who are well familiar with Culbertson mansion may find some details on the poster that they've never noticed before. I think it does a great job of displaying Culbertson's beauty, and is a fitting tribute to one of the finest architectural examples New Albany has to offer. The thumbnails on this page provide small glimpses of illustrations featured on the poster, which is a size of approximately 11 in x 17 in. There are seven illustrations on the poster.

Further details: There are only three scans featured here, and just so you know, any unpleasant artefacts you may see on the scans here have been eliminated on the actual poster itself. To see them all, make a visit to the Gallery on Pearl . . . . Enjoy. -Chris

Addendum: This poster is no longer available at the Gallery, but you can purchase a copy by contacting me at penandinkdetails@gmail.com

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Why Inking?

Of all the things I like to do, I had never focused much on doing art. I took one photography class in high school and one art history class in college, and that was it. However I have always loved art, and always planned on trying my hand at it in various ways.

Sparing you a long and boring story about the origins of my art development (which continues) I will share just a few things. First of all, I have always been better at drawing than anything else.
I tried other media. Finding that I didn't really like doing pastels, I bought some ink with the intention of messing around with it, and finally got around to trying it. I found instantly that I just loved working with it. (article continued below bullet points . . . .)

Some notes on the works you see in this article:

First of all, note that the streak you see across the scans is not in the actual works themselves. That is an artefact from the scanning.
The originals are approximately 5 in x 7 in, while the actual greeting cards are smaller.
These works come from my first and second series'of postcards, and do not include all of the pictures in those series.
The works are from left to right, then proceeding down the page: St. Mary's Roman Catholic, St. Paul's Episcopal, 2nd Baptist Church, Scribner House (home of New Albany's DAR chapter), and the new YMCA.

(article continued . . . .)
I created a drawing of the leaning Tower of Pisa from a photograph that I had of it. I created drawings which were representations of various Bible passages for a VBS. As much as I liked doing inks, was my work good enough to sell? That was the question.

I took some of my inks into a gallery that sells local art in New Albany, Indiana and they liked them. At their suggestion I created a series of several greeting cards of New Albany locations. They are now sold at the "Gallery on Pearl" in New Albany, IN. -Chris Truelsen

If you are genuinely interested in my work, you may e-mail me at: penandinkdetails@gmail.com (no spam please)

If you wish to visit the "Gallery on Pearl" or just check out their website, please use the link below:

http://www.thegalleryonpearl.com/