Tag Archives: emotions
Feeling-Related Watercolor: Making Senses (2016)
Feeling-Related Watercolor: Fear – Dream Portrait (2016)
Feeling-Related Watercolors: Behavior or Complex Motor Tic? (2016)
I posted this watercolor back in 2016. I repost today as an example of expressing feelings in my paintings. My older brother Mike is autistic, low functioning and nonverbal. He would hit himself and bite his hand, presumably when he was frustrated. One of the doctors who saw him in his group home diagnosed him […]
Post Willowbrook – Dave Frustrated, Mike Bites Himself
Not being able to communicate leaves everyone in turmoil.
Willowbrook: Mom and Mike on Visiting Day…
Shredded
I was patiently trying to lay down a watercolor representation the medical troubles one of my loved ones is undergoing. I first tried a literal approach, making a schematic arrangement of organic shapes. This sterile approach did not satisfy my and the only thing I could think of doing that would approximate my feelings was […]
