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Scrapbook, Mike’s Toddler Days from ‘My Brother Michael’

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Here are some pictures from Mike‘s toddler days. You can see my dad’s father and my mom’s mother hold Mike as a baby.  Dad is trying to interest Mike in the piano. Mike seems to be having fun with mom in one of the photos.  

Catching the Morning Light

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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 […]

Mike Sketch Project: The Beginning, Mike’s 40th Birthday 1989

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Today I changed my focus from self portraiture to revisiting images of my older brother Mike. Mike is autistic, low functioning and nonverbal. I started this website in 2013 with Mike as my primary focus. I tried to consolidate, summarize and expand my thoughts and attempts to understand Mike. I shared some of the dynamics […]

Quarantine Portrait Series: Portrait – Relaxing

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I did not use a photograph for today’s sketch. This was a lesson in dealing with a live subject with uncontrolled lighting. The likeness is fair, as I didn’t have a picture to study minutely, but there is a learning curve for this type of drawing upon which I just embarked.