I wanted to get this one right, so I sketched first with pencil. I inked over the lines that made sense and used charcoal to mark the shadows. Finally, I used watercolors to lightly tint the portrait. Get better soon, Mick!
I took this photo in the late 1980s. Somehow it reminds me of my older brother Mike. (I have written a great idea about my relationship with Mike in my blog posts from 2013.) Mike is nonverbal, low functioning and autistic. I imagine I must have had a guarded kind of fun when we went […]
I showed this photo to my mom, when I took it many years ago. She said the lone figure reminded her of her mother.
