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Joe Pegasus draws and designs under the names
of Joey, and Yman. The 'Yman' works lay in the realm of
his X-Line style - doodles. Those signed as 'Joey' are
'artistic-comment' and contemporary.
Joe spent the first 44 years of his life
professionally designing and cutting stone as a monument builder and
architect. An interest in computers and programming afforded him
early exposure to CADD and he developed his own CADD program (OurCAD,
1991.) His interest in the world of computers and electronic
communications lead him to be the first in his industry to build on
the Net (1981). His earlier years were also devoted to a love of
literature. That soon faded as career needs overtook him. His
published works can be found at "His
Literature" links. Recently, peers have encouraged him to
return to writing. Several titles are now in print again under his
pen name.
The name PEGASUS is a moniker given to him
from the barrooms across Bay Shore, New York. Joe had customized a
1979 work van (150 Ford) and painted an impressive mural covering the
entire outer surface. It's theme was the movie, 'Clash of the Titans'
wherein the horse Pegasus is a character and filled an entire side
of the van.
During the 1970's his interest in computers
and networking lead him to form an art studio called ADSTONE Designs.
It was, for a time, the third largest art studio in the memorial
trade. But the Internet and webmastering ended Joe's stone cutting
career. He created and built ADSTONE.net, which began as an Internet
domain to service the Death Care industry and, at its height, had
more access points than AOL (1994). That move, when those farming the
Internet were hard working pioneers, cut his income close to the line
of poverty, but, as we all know, a poor artist is a better artist -
and that suits Joe just fine.
He sold off the residential portions
of the Network (SuffolkOnline.com, BabylonTown.com and others) in the
nineties. During this time Joe established MyDrawingBoard.
MyDrawingBoard is actually the original ADSTONE Designs online and
the world's oldest and largest archive of Commemorative CADD
drawings. He remains the only webmaster for the site and one of its
largest contributors of artwork. It is widely accepted that Joe
is the most prolific webmaster on the Net with over 13 gigs of
webpages and design work created by him alone. MyDrawingBoard has
archived over 600,000 individual works of art. Close to 50% of the
art is his.
All the
works presented here are scans of number 2 pencil on paper.
None are for sale; you may capture them and do as you wish without
selling any. You are permitted to publish them only when
editorializing the work or promoting it. Enjoy!
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