by Henk ter Heide on Wednesday January 21, 2009
White landscape
Posted on Flickr by Glodecki
Winter in Kasprowicza Park – Szczecin
Posted on Flickr by tapenade
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by Henk ter Heide on Tuesday May 6, 2008
Describing the art work of Mél Ancholy, Tim Lowly and Weasel boy.
Sometimes my eye is caught by a set of pictures that are horrible but still draw my attention. Todays first artist produces that kind of work. Mél Ancholy produces a kind of art she calls PhotoART. Photos, of people and object, manipulated to look old and vulnerable. Somehow these photos are beautiful in their ugliness.
My second choice for today is almost the opposite of first one. Tim Lowly paints little pictures of people in strange poses. Although far from ugly I do wander why I he show people the way he does.
If by Tim Lowly
Weasel boy seems a bit odd name for a weblog about illustrations. The site show a lot of funny little drawings of dragons, animals, funny people, funny superheros and the sort.
Some illustrations are partly sketched so you can see how they were made.
Rain Dear by Weasel boy
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by Henk ter Heide on Saturday April 28, 2007
Yesterday I enthusiasticly searched for a dozen picture of people to draw. A picture of a boy in a swimming trunk in a shower of some swimmingpool didn’t look to difficult so I started with that one.
But me being me I can’t just start with the big picture. I have to start with some detail and…
I’m not sure what will happen next. I thought that I might draw a lot of pictures of details and then work my way up to the big picture.
But it seems that I’m going to zoom out.
Layering of colors gives a very nice result but it is a very strange way of drawing.
Yesterday I started with a yellowish brown as back color. But that turned out to be to dark. Which means that the darker parts of the face get to dark.
This time I started with a yellow. But as you can see this yellow is to sharp. It hurts your eyes.
Ai ai
I’ve started a new drawing with a less brightyellow.
At first I thought that layering would mean that I’ld have to draw the picture dozens of times with different colors. A bit like what you would expect of silk-screen print. But that is hardly possible. That would mean drawing the nose in yellow next to the cheeks in yellow above the mouth in yellow.
How would I see the difference? If I can’t see where the nose ends and the cheeks begin how would I draw the next layer? So I decide to lay a foundation of yellow and draw the next layers.
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by Henk ter Heide on Friday April 27, 2007
I had a panic attact at my work last week Wednesday and Thursday.
Wednesday they gave me other work then I’m used to. Well actually the same work but in a different room with different people. It caught me off gaurd.
For some reason I reacted very strongly but without recognizing my own reaction. I didn’t treet people very nice.
Thursday they gave me back my my own work. But I felt very anxiet so I took some sick leave expecting that it would pass. But it didn’t. Last Tuesday I felt fine until entered the building were I work. I felt some strange sensation in my throat and on my chest.
It took me nearly two hours to recognize it as a feeling of fear.
It took me a few days to figure out why I felt fear at my work and why I’m still feeling fear. It has to do with the agreement I made with my employer.
As an autistic I need al lot of structure. I need to know what will happen to me and what kind of work I will do and where I will do that work.
I’ve been working with Promen for the last seven years and I found them to be a very chaotic. Over the last couple of years I have had several times that I was reprimanded for doing exactly what they told me to do the day before. Then the next day they changed there minds again and again reprimanded me for doing what I was told to do. Then the they would change there mind again, and again…
You can expect the same kind of trouble when you enter in an agreement with them: The person who is responsible for transportation won’t bring me to my place of work because I didn’t tell him that I had to go there. He doesn’t even seem to realize that it is not my place to tell him what to do. Next they called me to ask me whether I would agree to changing the agreement because it would be much easier, on them, if they didn’t have to do what we agreed upon.
According to the agreement I would get a secondment with the company Lemkes and if Lemkes didn’t have any work for my I would go to a specific interal department.
Actualy Lemkes isn’t a very good workplace for me. It’s a very nice small company with a varying workload and a varying amount of temps. Which means that it isn’t structured. But even with the varying workload and varying amound of temps it’s still more structured then Promen.
Working with Lemkes was kind of an escape from Promen. It’s kind of strange that someone with a disability would need to escape from the company that is set up especialy for people with disabilities.
Now I’m at the mercy of Promen and that’s a fightning prospect.
Boy in swimming trunk partial portrait
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