West End Arts http://www.westendarts.org member Andrew Boyoton born in Syracuse,NY and currently reside in Long Beach,NY. He graduated with an architecture degree from University of Buffalo in 1996. Although he enjoyed architecture and the life perspective it gave him. He still needed to be a free spirit, especially after learning to play guitar in his junior year.....
He started developing his style with freehand ball point pen that fall. While creating lyric books for songs that he had written on the guitar his artistic mind was set free. It was only by chance that ball point pen would become his medium of choice, for after the words were written, a small sketch would grace the page. With the next song a larger and more detailed drawing would grow from his hand, highlighting an idea or imagery from the words. Pretty soon the shaded penwork demanded it's own page and the lyrics designed themselves into and around the art. These "lessons" showed him the beauty of patience and the second nature of ball point pen. He bought a new scrapbook at that point and haven't put it down since...
