During the disruption of the pandemic, I’ve been posting moments from the past. My ‘Vintage Photo Series’ is a reprise of photos from the past of which I’m proud. Lately, in my ‘Mike Sketch Series’, I have practiced my sketching by revisiting old photographs of my brother Mike. With each sketch, I remember my times […]
In the reference photograph for this sketch, I used a detached flash. This resulted in a clear, high-contrast photo. One of the changes I would make in this sketch would be to make his left hand a bit smaller. It looks like someone else’s finger is in Mike’s ear. I should also work on getting […]
Dad used to try clapping Mike’s hands along with music. Mike resisted most of the time. Like us, Dad had no idea what was going on in brother Mike’s head. Mike is autistic, low functioning and nonverbal. When Mike was a toddler, Dad told me that he was able to sing along with some of […]
When I used to roam around the neighborhoods of New York, where I lived at the time, I took many photographs of settings that caught my eye. Visual elements were not the only consideration that caused my finger to snap the shutter. At the time I took the picture below, I was not having any […]
Mike used to like to steal food. Another resident didn’t take kindly to that.
Mike’s favorite toy was the slinky. I would often see him with one in his hand, or sometimes he would hold it with both hands.
Again, I did not capture my brother Mike‘s expression as captured in the reference photograph I sketched. The photo was not grainy, like the one I copied yesterday, so I could have copied his facial features precisely. I tried to, but came up with a different look. Mike appeared to be disgusted and perhaps a […]
I copied this image from a grainy photo I took of my brother Mike. The facial expression I captured was not the one that I caught in the photo. That I made the same error in a previous sketch makes me curious about what this says about me as an artist. In my self portrait […]
