Local Artists Collection:
A Quick Q&A with Anders Pearson, Artist of Many Media
conducted on: November 19, 2007
Interviewed and transcribed by: Venice Bayrd
Date Last Accessed: November 29, 2007

Pieces of Anders' art included in the Local Artists Collection:
ambergris Error and Annihilation (set) greenarm memoir
painted turtles quicken ra

Interviewer's note: I asked Anders these questions via email in the midst of gathering metadata to include for several works in the collection, hence the non-conversational tone of the questions and answers. Despite the Q&A format, I felt the following two answers were interesting enough technically to be of interest to more skilled artists, and so I am including them here.

VB: Error And Annihilation -- ink drawing on paper? actual size of individual pages? Would these be line drawings, or just drawings?
AP: Drawn in a large Moleskine sketch notebook reserved just for this project. The pages are 5.25 x 8.25 inches. The actual drawings are all within a 4.875 x 7 inch rectangle though (before I started I went through and traced out one of my metal rectangles on each page and that's the size it happens to be). It's drawn with a "nonrepro" blue pencil which is basically a very light blue that comic artists and animators use because it doesn't get picked up by the photographic equipment used in printmaking. Digital scanners can pick it up but since it's real light it's still easy to remove the sketch lines from the digital version. After sketching, I ink with Sakura Pigma Micron pens (and a Sharpie to fill in the occasional large area). I would probably say "line drawings". They are scanned in at 600dpi and I clean them up in the Gimp, filtering out the blue pencil, and adjusting the levels to get the background pure white (Moleskine paper is somewhat annoyingly off-white) so it will print better.
VB: In an earlier email, Anders also mentioned that the images are abstract, as in non-representational. Each drawing is one of a series of drawings forming a larger work, a 50 page abstract graphic novel. The project is a graphic response to the annual November National Novel Writing Month writing project which challenges writers to write 50,000 words in the time period of one month. Each drawing is composed of interrelated panels on a page, and each page comprises part of "(A)n overall abstracted 'plot' or running theme between pages" (Pearson, 2007-11).

VB: Ambergris - Is there anything else you can tell me about writing/playing/producing?
AP: Recorded with Ardour. All synths (so far). Using my keyboard as a MIDI controller to drive ZynAddSubFX (an incredibly ugly but powerful open source software synth): http://zynaddsubfx.sourceforge.net/




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