Pencil Artist of the Week: Peggy Magovern

This week’s featured pencil artist is a self-taught artist named Peggy Magovern. Her art has been published in the Wall Street Journal, Readers Digest, Sports Illustrated and more, and she has worked with clients ranging from Honda to Banana Republic. During her free time, she shares her talents with other artists while leading “Realistic Portraiture in Pencil” workshops at the Mendocino Art Center, and she has been the recipient of numerous awards for artistic excellence, including the Caples Creative Award and the Catalog Age Magazine Ace Award.

Peggy works with colored pencils, chalk pastels and Crayola crayons, even using all three mediums on a single piece. She does not rely on computer assistance, photograph tracing or projection tracing while creating her works. Instead, with each piece she embarks on a creative process that is as much about discovering as it is about creating:

“To me, the essence of being an artist is not about the easy path to a completed piece. It is about discovery and working from a place of uncertainty. Artwork should be malleable and ready for inspiration and change, especially when it is unexpected. From the first pencil stroke up until the last one, the final outcome remains unclear. It seems that with each and every moment of work, I’m taking slow steps forward and faulting steps backward, and never at a pace faster than the art requires. My art is pure. There is no computer manipulation, no projected composition, and no photographic copy underneath. One line at a time – just pure, hand-drawn art. The rest is from my heart and soul. “

We couldn’t agree more, Peggy.

If you want to see more of Peggy’s art work, head on over to her website.

Images are the copyright of Peg Magovern Illustration and have been used with expressed written consent from the artist.

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