Meditation Series: (1/8) Musings with Lines, LA, 2025

I’m proud to begin the 12th year of daily blog posts on this blog. I’ve tried each day to present a visual rendering of something interesting from my external environment or something from my internal domain that I endeavor to make visible. I start the new year with line drawings. Before each sketch, I have […]

Dynamic Line Drawing

Yesterday’s edited sequence of photos I took on a walk with Mike captured him in an upset state. I took him on a walk from his group home and I think that he was fearful or anxious at being in unfamiliar territory. Mike is autistic, low functioning and nonverbal. I developed a series of drawings and […]

Shapes – Follow Up

It is really hard to guide a pencil point along a simple contour that represents what one’s mind sees. The studies below are an extension of yesterday’s study of shapes. In my first drawing I used ovals to draw a complete figure. I used two lines for the sketch below. The subject is the same as […]

Abstract Mike and Me

Today’s watercolor experiment: I’m very happy with the icons I developed to represent my brother Mike and me (see Progress post). For those reading my blog for the first time, Mike is my older brother, who is autistic, low functioning and nonverbal. Today’s composition combines these line drawings with the flat, earth tones I used […]