Learn how a simple ballpoint pen can be used to create artistic masterpieces! This book takes you through a journey… to discover and explore the ballpoint pen as a serious medium of art.

Written by Shirish Deshpande, this monograph details the nuances of texture, pressure control, and cross-hatching that turn a mundane office tool into an instrument of high art.

“The ballpoint pen is perhaps the most honest medium; there is no erasing, only the commitment of the stroke.”

— Shirish Deshpande