Street Photography: Leather Street Couch, LA 2024

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

Mike-Related Watercolor: About to Hold Hands (2014)

I captured the image of Mike‘s hand reaching for mine. The photograph shows that Mike seems to be smiling. These are the moments with my older brother that I treasure.

New Series: Mike-Related Watercolors: Mike Looking at Me, Other Eye Clouded

I begin this series with watercolors I painted of my brother Michael along with their reference photographs. Through this collection, I return to the mission of this blog (as it began, in 2013), which was to explore my relationship with my older autistic brother. Mike is autistic, low functioning and nonverbal. Today, Mike is on […]

Vintage Photo: Peter Cooper Village, NYC Late 1980s

I showed this photo to my mom, when I took it many years ago. She said the lone figure reminded her of her mother.

Sketch of Giant Clouds Dwarfing the Landscape

I thought I could do justice to the photo I took the other day (Giant Clouds Dwarfing the Landscape) with a pencil sketch. The middle ground of the sketch came out the best. I captured the contrast between the white fluffy clouds in front of the gray face of the huge cloud. The gray clouds […]