Thought process Usually I sketch an entire study onto the watercolor block before I paint. As you can see from yesterday’s post, I completed the first half before sketching anything on the other half of the paper. I was a little concerned about discontinuity, but since my barrier studies (Back to Abstract?, Variation, My Niche, […]
… is better than none. Actually, I’ve been working on another in my barrier series. I hope I move on to another subject after a while, but this is a rich vein for me to excavate. The reason for this, is the separation between my older autistic brother and me. In addition to being autistic, […]
For a while I would sketch all the time. I thought it would be cool to use the Moleskin sketchbooks that (they say) famous artists used to scrawl out plans for their masterpieces. I found that sketching, which I assume is a quick version of drawing, helped me to appreciate the subject at which I […]
More about creativity and artistic process It was awkward drawing the underlying icons for the painting from the ‘My Niche‘ post. The paper had a rough finish, I was using a pen that had permanent ink and I was anxious about making a mistake. Consequently, the ‘cloud’ formation I drew only had four lobes. When […]
My paintings of the past couple of days have been abstract expressionist watercolors (Back to Abstract?, Variation and My Niche). I worked diligently to organize my icons in a way that had some meaning to me, and to incorporate the metaphor of an invisible barrier between my older autistic brother and me. My ‘rubber’ images […]
First of all, I’d like to thank my good friend M, for the definition of the type of work I have been doing these past couple days (Back to Abstract?, Variation). Thank you M! You may see one of M’s (many) wonderful blogs at: http://ishaiyafreshlysqueezed.com Recent paintings The type of painting I have been producing recently […]
Yesterday my watercolor painting was a representation of the impenetrable barrier I feel exists between my older autistic brother and me. I still don’t know how to classify this type of painting. Is it abstract? Perhaps it is an abstract to someone other than me, because I constructed it with a theme in mind. I’m […]
I’ve been working on a couple of watercolors. The one below is a combination pen and ink and watercolor. I guess that makes it a mixed media work. At any rate, I don’t really know if it is abstract or not. It is definitely nonrepresentational – of the visible world. Using my icons I chose […]
Language Managing the task of understanding language – sentences – combinations of words we have never heard before, is an enormous computational task, if we were to program a computer to decipher natural language. Much of what we understand of the spoken word comes from context. In fact, it is often true, that when people […]
I only use 10% of my brain? When I was a kid, the rumor was that even the smartest people only use 10% of their brains. Einstein was said to be such a genius because he used 15% of his remarkable brain. I thought this was pretty nutty. Surely 85-90% of a person’s brain isn’t […]
