PO has f r.A.ti few l: done abou BO entra drdn'l a" . LO 3, anott mear a fan news own€ soid P0rtl; concl pursi full ti, in tw, "G irtist pioneers he colored pencil medium .aura Jacobson rtland artist Bet Borgeson c78) young," said Borgeson,perched on a ound an eloquent though stool in her bright studio among a .-.Y..vely unexploredmeans of scattering of colorful drawings. expressionin the humble colored "You're a pure student. You don't pencil. She hopesto introduce others have to worry about your love life in her just completed book The because hopefullythat aspect of Colored Pencil, to be publishedin your life is taken care of. My kids Aprll. were grown. It allowed me to be ''It is such an amazingtool, but single-minded. focused, like a razor )wple have seen what can be sliclng through cheese." with it." said the PSU graduate Her focus dldn't prevent a t her chosen medium. post-graduate depression, however. rgeson made a rather late "PSU did such a thorough job of nce into the study of art - she exposing me to so many mediums of t plck up a brush until the age of art and thus broaden~ngmy id put off getting her degree for understandingof what good art is, I ier eleven years. In the had a feeling of defeat," explained ltime she was kept busy raising Borgeson. "Because I had tried so lily and editing the small much, I felt split in so many areas, I paper she and her husband Ed didn't know anythinganymore." !d in Venice, California. They The artist felt jaded. "You get to the paper in 1975 to move to the point where you just can't md and pour ail of their appreciate simple, familiar art. As ~ntrationinto their artistic you develop discretion, you turn lits. Borgesonenrolled at PSU away from that which turned you on me and finished her art degree in the first place.'' 3 years. So Borgeson decided to go back oing back as an older student is to the origlnal spnng, to the simple Herent than whe~ drawlngs that stlrred her in the 'Darkllng.' Colored pencil by Bet Borgeson I you re beginning. But she brought new eyes and new skills to her old love. Through her palntlng experience. Borgesonhad learned to appreclate color. and wondered how she could Incorporate~tinto drawing. Her discovery of colored penclls solved the problem. Wlth colored pencils, the artist uses color as structure from the very beg~nningn, ot as a later embellishment, expialned Borgeson. Borgesonhas been introduc~ngher medium to Portland by teachrng classes in colored pencil at the MultnomahArt Center in Munnomah. An article she wrote about colored pencils In the September. 1982 Issue of American Artist brought many calls from interested readers and colored pencii users hidden in the cracks of the Nonhwest art communitv. The colored penc~lmedium's local pioneer hopes that her book will similarly spark the lmaginatlons of artists who share her passlon for color and simplicity.
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