There’s a kind of quiet magic in working with a ballpoint pen. No erasing, no undoing — just soft, deliberate lines that slowly build into form. Recently, I took on the challenge of drawing “The Kiss”, the breathtaking sculpture by Yves Pires, using only a blue pen. And in every stroke, I tried to capture not just the form, but the feeling.
The Kiss is more than just a sculpture — it’s a moment frozen in time. Two figures wrapped in an embrace, held by love, by gravity, by surrender. Recreating that kind of intimacy on paper was both delicate and powerful. The blue shade gave it a dreamlike quality — like the drawing itself was caught between memory and emotion.
Using ballpoint pen forces you to be present. There’s no going back. You work slowly, layering tone over tone, line over line, until something begins to emerge. It’s not just drawing — it’s etching emotion into paper.
This piece is a quiet homage — to love, to sculpture, and to the art of slow drawing. I hope it speaks to your heart as much as it spoke to mine while creating it. Would you like to see this piece available as a fine art print? Let me know. This blue kiss may just find its next home soon… 💙
