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Joe Pegasus is a pen name for Joe Auricchio,
Jr. He draws and designs under several names : My Drawing
Board, and Joey, and Joe Auricchio, and Yman. Most of his sketch work
is signed as Joey and dated. Those signed as 'Joey' are
'artistic-comment' and contemporary.The 'Yman' works are his serial
works. The 'Yman' works lay in the realm of his X-Line style -
doodles. Work signed or attributed to MyDrawingBoard and/or Joe
Auricchio are his bread and butter. Joe is most prolific of
commemortive artists with over 200,000 designs for lease at
MyDrawingBoard.com That number grows daily.
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). 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.
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 writer 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 his line work is
cartoon by nature. Different "series' such as X-Line, BayShore
Hotel, Fairies, Mermaids and the 'Undecided' series, reflect on the
limits of his cartoon skills. Often Joe will fall into an
illustrator's mode. Such faults are acceptable within this gallery.
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.
He and his
wife Cathy reside on their 10 acre farm in South Carolina.
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