Twelve notecards, signed and numbered, sold with the original drawing
The Original Drawing was a project launched in 2003 by a Maryland artist to market abstractly figurative art, each of which was drawn on 140-lb. cold press acid free watercolor paper using colored pencils and then double matted with acid free materials. The paper size was 4×6 inches and the mat was 5x7 inches. The original drawing was scanned and printed as notecards on slightly textured, off white, acid free paper. These notecards with their original drawing were intended as a one-of-a-kind gift for the discerning recipient, with thirteen envelopes included.
Bertram’s Inkwell in White Flint Mall in Kensington, Maryland was designated as a retailer of these collections. The Internet Archive Wayback Machine does not host any captures later than 2005 and the domain has long since lapsed, but I’ve since been able to recover the files. Back then I helped designed the site’s pages and styles under the client’s instruction to maintain usability with the long-outdated Netscape Communicator 4.x series of browsers, but for this revival, I have employed HTML5.
The catalog as it existed upon launching the site.