Tag Archives: music
Pen and Ink Series #100: Lost in the Music, LA, 2025
I have a photo of my Dad playing the violin. I tried to find it again today, doing all kinds of searches. I realized out that I also couldn’t find it back in 2017 when I was sketching with watercolor (see post of May 11, 2017). So here’s my current remembrance of Dad lost in […]
Meditation Series: (1/8) Hands of My Life, New York, 1990s
These are the hands of my father. He loved music and mathematics with equal passion. Here he is conducting music at my aunt’s house. I forgot which record was playing. He immersed himself in the music, not only with the sensory part of his being but also with the motor portion of his brain. These […]
Meditation Series: (7/8) Paddy Reilly’s, NYC (1991)
I wanted to merge the feelings of music and dance in this abstract meditation. However, the dancers, whom I tried to blur into an appearance of motion, just became blurred. I copied some of the music from a book of Irish fiddle tunes. (I may have omitted or spliced in a spurious measure in the […]
Meditation Series: (6/8) Paddy Reilly’s, NYC (1991)
A more constrained abstract inspired by the music at Paddy Reilly’s. Irish music makes me want to get up and move, but I am (was) better at the fiddle than dance. Please visit my Etsy shop for my artwork for sale inspired by my autistic brother Mike at: https://autisminspiredart.etsy.com My other artwork for sale is […]
Meditation Series: Luthier Storefront, NYC (1989) Sketches 1-8
Looking at the evolution of this particular set of drawings, one can see the transition from the depiction of a physical place to images inspired by the meaning that place to the artist. Please visit my Etsy shop for my artwork for sale inspired by my autistic brother Mike at: https://autisminspiredart.etsy.com My other artwork for […]
Meditation Series: (8/8) Luthier Storefront, NYC (1989)
My Dad loved music, he loved the violin, he loved his oldest son Michael and his family. Mike was unreachable, nonverbal, autistic and low functioning. Dad said, and I think I remember this, that Mike would chime in at the ‘surprise’ part of Haydn’s Surprise Symphony. Mike would hum classical music that Dad would play on the hi […]
Meditation Series: Street Fair, NYC (1988) Sketches 1-8
I find it interesting to look back on all the sketches of one theme to see my thoughts about the subject. Please visit my Etsy shop for my artwork for sale inspired by my autistic brother Mike at: https://autisminspiredart.etsy.com My other artwork for sale is at: https://otherartbyjack.etsy.com
Meditation Series: (3/8) Texaco at Lafayette and Bond, NYC (1989)
I concentrated on the mural in this iteration of the series. I took liberties with colors (since the source photo is in black and white) and the design, since it was a bit small in the original. Please visit my Etsy shop for my artwork for sale inspired by my autistic brother Mike at: etsy.com/shop/AutismInspiredArt. […]
Memories of Michael: Mike “Listening” to Dad Playing the Violin (1992)
It would be nice to think that Mike was listening to Dad playing the violin. Dad loved music, and he loved his son Mike. Mike had a library of gestures that he made. We could correlate some of them with his moods. I’m pretty sure the one in this picture wasn’t related to the music […]
