My older brother Mike, autistic, low functioning and nonverbal, lived at home until I was 10 years old. I posted a picture taken from that period yesterday and painted a reference portrait. My mother looked everywhere for a place that would take care of Michael. Nobody knew what was wrong with him back in the […]
Below is the tenth group of watercolors that I painted for earlier posts in this blog. Please see the original posts for the back story and inspiration of each painting. Originally posted on September 25, 2014 (Cancelled Flight); stamp collecting comes to the fore: Originally posted on September 2, 2014 (Is Writing Like Painting?); sometimes it’s hard […]
Below is the ninth group of watercolors that I painted for earlier posts in this blog. Please see the original posts for the back story and inspiration of each painting. Originally posted on January 27, 2015 (Abstract Blood Brain Barrier): Originally posted on September 8, 2014 (Memory Fades), eye to hippocampus: Originally posted on December 9, 2014 (My […]
Today’s watercolor experiment: My readings about portraiture led me to an interesting experiment yesterday whereby I combined my features with my older brother Mike’s. This was a bit scary for several reasons: 1) Mike is autistic; 2) he is low functioning 3) he has never spoken; 4) I have never been able to communicate with him; […]
Below is the eighth group of watercolors that I painted for earlier posts in this blog. Please see the original posts for the back story and inspiration of each painting. Originally posted on October 26, 2014 (On Target): Originally posted on August 30, 2014 (Residual Ideas): Originally posted on May 15, 2014 (Physics and Chemistry): Originally posted […]
A couple of days ago I painted a portrait of Mike, my older brother. Mike is autistic, low functioning and nonverbal. I borrowed from the artwork of Alexej von Jawlensky and his fantastic fauvist-colored portraits to add a sense of other-reality to my portrayal of Mike. Yesterday, I painted a self portrait in the same style. […]
Below is the seventh group of watercolors that I painted for earlier posts in this blog: Originally posted on September 9, 2014 (Untitled): Originally posted on January 29, 2014 (Abstract High Five): Originally posted on October 25, 2014 (Head Wind): Originally posted on October 11, 2014 (White Spot with a Twist): As with the first, second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth groups each of these […]
I painted another portrait of Mike today. Mike is my older brother who is autistic, low functioning and nonverbal. Mike was home during my early childhood, but was institutionalized when I was about 10 years old. Now he is in a geriatric group home. I haven’t seen him in a while but oddly, he still […]
Below is the sixth group of watercolors that I painted for earlier posts in this blog: Originally posted on October 20, 2014 (Abstract 101819): Originally posted on October 29, 2014 (Bass Habitat), an imaginative look at the sunken Christmas trees where the bass hide: Originally posted on January 28, 2015 (Homunculino and the Pyramids), a look at the […]
I really enjoy the art of Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky. Both artists taught at the famous Bauhaus and both have written about their philosophies. There is a compilation of Klee’s Bauhaus lectures and essays about art in two notebooks (The Thinking Eye and The Nature of Nature); Kandinsky also wrote down his ideas about […]
