Milton Road Speedway — Split Lip Magazine

Ballpoint pen drawing of a Speedway gas station, ordinary and luminous. Cross-hatched colors bleed together like a radiant sunset washing over the canopy, pumps, and corner store — the whole scene adrift on white. — “Milton Road Speedway” by Iz Schrader.
Ballpoint pen on paper, 9″ x 12″, 2022.

Iz Schrader (@ibsaelle) is a mixed media artist from Nashville, Tennessee, who specializes in traditional illustration. She pays homage to the beauty in the mundane through colorfully cross-hatched ink drawings that have been described as psychedelic portals into strangely familiar worlds. Her aim in creating art is to rebuild reverence for everyday life, the sacredness of simple pleasures, and the profundity of human existence. She almost always has a ballpoint pen in hand, ready to react whenever the muse strikes. See more of her work on her website.