I am Rebekah L Mcleod. I live in the Charleston SC area. I am an Abstract artist and a graphic designer. I have an AS in graphics from Trident Tech in N Charleston SC. I also attended 2 years at Ringling School of art and Design.
I've been drawing abstracts sense middle school. I started drawing simple abstracts in those tiny notebook pads. Then I started drawing bigger abstract, still on notebook paper, and coloring them in with different color pens. This was before the advent of gel pens so the colors were limited. They were very dark. Mostly black green and red. I tried color pencils, but I didn't like them as well as the pens because they didn't produce as opaque and dark colors.
I'm sure you are wondering why I chose reguler pen as my medium, as well as notebook paper. Well first of all I liked that I could control the pens well. I paint some now but them I hated it because I could not control the brush. I have bad hand eye coordination due to a brain tumor at age 3. As for the notebook paper. I didn't know of any other type of paper to draw on but newsprint. That was all I was ever given in school to draw on. I am hypersenstive to many things in my envroment and newsprint made me itch.
My abstracts futher advanced when a kid in one of my classes in middle school asked me if all I drew was squares and circles and checkerboard patterns. It was then that the crazy fluidness of my current artwork was born. With the advent of gel pens, my abstracts became more colorful and brignt. With gel pens I could layer textures over solid colors.
It was not untill college and art school that I graduated to the wide aray of art paper, fine tiped artist pens, and brush tip markers. Now armed with a scaner, light box, and Photoshop and Illustrator the posablities are endless. What was once a nerves habit had become a beautiful passionate God given talent.