Pen and Ink Series #77: Eyes, LA, 2025
I’ve noticed that Paul Klee has many different ways to draw eyes, in his artwork. I tried some of them in my sketch below.
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Meditation Series: (2/8) Brother Mike (1949-2022), LA 2024
This sketch represents a seminal moment in my relationship with Mike and marked the beginning of a long-term photography project. My parents and I visited Mike in his interim housing (after the Willowbrook residents were re-assigned living quarters) on his 40th birthday. I took a photo of Mike, not an award winner to be sure, […]
Sketch Book Series: Pen and Ink Doodles (June 2011)
I like the clean lines of this practice page.
Mike’s Eyes, Now Closed
Mike is still with us or, (more accurately) with himself. Mike is my older autistic brother, who is autistic and low functioning. During most of his life he was inwardly directed, although he would take your hand sometimes, to get you to open a door to go where he wanted, or to direct you to […]
Mike Sketch Project: Mike Portrait at Brown June 1, 1990
This is a sketch of one of the first portraits I took of my brother Mike. Mike is older than I am, autistic, low functioning and has never spoken. One notable feature of Mike’s appearance is his diverging eyes. Early in the history of this blog, I noted that I never quite knew which eye […]
Introspection
Another emphasis on eyes, beginning with three initial curves. The first lines in this painting are in red. The triangular black area, speckled with white seems to be gazing in at the original eye, bounded by the curved black areas at the right hand side of the picture.
Staring Eyes
My niece is, for intents and purposes, mute. She lies there with her eyes closed most of the time. I say her name loudly, perhaps too loudly, and she opens her eyes. They usually don’t stay open for long. From gaze, I can’t tell if she recognizes me. She is focused on the mid-distance. Her eyes are […]
Underworked?
Today’s watercolor may be a reaction to yesterday’s overthinking, overworking of my original minimalist strokes. Here it is: In keeping with the spirit of minimalism, thus ends this post.
Eye
The dark eyes of my photograph from many years ago (in When are Portraits Self Portraits?) really caught my attention. I followed up with three portraits based on that photograph (Dirty Blond, Negative Blond and Disorientation). Today’s watercolor focuses even more closely on this shadow eye. Eyes are supposed to tell one about the machinations of […]
Blind Portrait
Today’s watercolor experiment: Yesterday I did not take my eyes of the plant I was drawing. I did not look at the paper. Today I did the opposite. I closed my eyes and did not look at the paper or the subject. The subject was my mother’s face. I used to practice drawing her face […]
