by Henk ter Heide on Thursday July 7, 2011
One of the fun things about the internet is that you can meet new people without leaving your house.
Here are a few of the people you would meet if you ever where to visit Iceland.
More exciting photos by the Icelandic photographer Gísli Dúa Hjörleifsson
The naked, lost, tree fish man
Hopeless and strange situation’s . . . Part two.
Sunday Morning Swim.
Your skin and bones turn into something beautiful.
Kakalinn (The Stammerer)
Samskeyti . . .
A Normal Warm Sunday Afternoon…
Paddling For Life. . .
Well the true Icelandic Love Way.
Lost in a dream.
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by Henk ter Heide on Friday July 1, 2011
More colorful illustrations by Ann Pazinuk
Dark side
Illusionist
Dangerous girl
Mists of Faerun
Coffe an Violin
Sky above us
Gadabout Trix
Zeppelin pilots
Martine Mine
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by Henk ter Heide on Wednesday June 29, 2011
Remarkable photos by Aneta Kowalczyk
Who is this girl
Arsenic
Colour of beauty
Freedom of speech
Ewelina
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by Henk ter Heide on Monday August 17, 2009
I feel trapped.
My job is boring and pointless.
My favorite bar is about to go belly up (although the owner still doesn’t know it).
I have hardly any friends.
I hardly ever talk to the kind of people I like to talk with.
I’ve got to get out of here.
Being autistic I’m told that I lack the skills that are necessary to find a new job.
Maybe so. But you never really know until you’ve tried, do you.
So I decided that even if I don’t find a job I should try. If only because you always learn something from trying.
On Monsterboard I found the question “Where do you want to be in five years?”
Thinking about that I realized that’s one of my problems.
I’m only 47 yrs and I live in the past. (We all do at the sheltered workplace.)
I’m always thinking about what went wrong. What aspects of my autism lead me to the place I’ve ended up.
But that’s a dead end.
Knowing how I got here will never help me to get on.
Not with my life.
And not with my art.
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by Henk ter Heide on Saturday May 2, 2009
Alone in the dark
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Pike Fight Night Shoot
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Sara RED Morrison
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old
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Morgengrauen
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19
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“San…………….”
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Dances with Wolves
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Abandoned Formality
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Remember
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mermaid
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Flyn’ High
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OLD MAN …
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SPOTTED #09
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Struck by lightning
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artist working
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Jagran Neelum Valley
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sleep model
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self with Giampiero & Mauro
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Viejo lobo de mar
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Yesil
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by Henk ter Heide on Wednesday July 9, 2008
Pen and ink drawings by Pete Bromage and paintings by Nathaniel Fowles and Jon Conkey.
Drawings by Pete Bromage
Drawings of steam locomotives. Drawings of people at work. Drawings of people working the land. Landscapes and old churches. With the quality of these drawing I would have though that Pete Bromage would have his own website to sell his work.
But apparently he hasn’t.
The roundhouse by Pete Bromage
Nathaniel Fowles’ paintings
From his profile: “When I was eleven or so, I decided that I wanted to be an artist (it seemed like a good idea at the time).”
Going by the not very large set of paintings I’m assuming that Nathaniel Fowles never fulfilled his ambition. Still he paints quite nice pictures of a city that needs no introduction.
According to his profile his paintings depict fragments of stories. Which might explain why I felt that the paintings where trying to tell me something.
Themeworks
To grow people need challenges. Jon Conkey challenged himself to paint 365 oil painting in one year to practice his oil paintings skills. Themeworks is the result of that challenge.
The website consists of 332 little paintings of mostly landscapes. A few people and buildings but mostly lovely landscapes.
Although he has finished this project and moved on this site is still well worth a visit.
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by Henk ter Heide on Friday June 27, 2008
Paintings by Tina Manthorpe and Karin Jurick and abstract drawings by Sting Chen.
Watercolors by Tina Manthorpe
Tina Manthorpe has a set of what I think are watercolors but they don’t look like regular watercolors.
I’m not sure but I think that because they are painted on thick paper. Paper that won’t allow the color to flow. So instead you get blobs of paint. Which has a very nice effect.
Walcot lane in snow by Tina Manthorpe
I ain’t an artist
I would call these pen and ink drawing by Sting Chen abstract.
Actually I’m at a loss as to what they are supposed to portray. At most the remind me of something I saw on television in a show about tumors. A bit creepy but still fascinating.
Karin Jurick’s paintings
Karin’s website isn’t very easy to navigate. Starting at her paintings page you get a nice collection of thumbnails of her paintings. Scroll down to the bottom of some pages and you’ll find a link to pages with clickable thumbnails.
Still the paintings are quite nice and somewhat unexpected.
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by Henk ter Heide on Wednesday June 25, 2008
Paintings by Brett Bean, nature photos by Micheal Jones and craftwork by SabiiWabii.
Bean Scribbles
Brett Bean draws for a living. But on his website Bean Scribbles he shows of his personal drawings. Apart from a few landscapes he likes to draw a lot of people. Although his people aren’t always people.
Small alien by Brett Bean
Some on the other hand are. Like this drawing of his wife.
Julie by Brett Bean
Nature walker’s photos
On Nature walker Micheal Jones share his passion for nature. He show some beautiful nature photo’s.
SabiiWabii paper and fabric arts
This next set of pictures if more about craft then about art. SabiiWabii make very nice and funny paper and fabric figures.
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by Henk ter Heide on Monday June 11, 2007
It took several sketches before I realized that there was something wrong with the way I use my colors. I make parts of the face darker that should be lighter.
Topographical face final sketch
It seems that I have some kind of synthesis between touch and sight. While I look at something I also “feel” it. When I try to remember how something looks the shape is the most powerful memory.
I thought it would be nice to try to draw a face the way I see it in my mind. Like a sort of statue with thicker (darker) and thinner (lighter) parts. But it isn’t. It’s boring to look at. This is the second and final drawing using this concept.
But it has given me some ideas about the relation between landscape and portraits.
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by Henk ter Heide on Monday May 7, 2007
Color tree 1th sketch
I’m leaving the Nova for now. I don’t jet have a clear picture in my mind as to what it is supposed to look like.
Actually I don’t have any pictures in my mind. I have shapes in my mind. Shapes without shade and color. I do know what color a shape is but I usually just don’t look at the color.
It might be that the foremost reason that I never realized that I have a photographic memory is because the pictures in my mind don’t really feel like something I see. They feel like something I feel. A bit like a blind man feels a shape.
The difference is that the shapes I feel not only have three dimensions but they also have an inside. So for instance with the picture of a cup of coffee I don’t see the cup and the top of the fluid inside. I feel the cup and the fluid and the dissolving sugar at the bottom and the suspended creamer somewhere in the middle of the coffee.
I do know what the colors are. Which in it self is a bit strange since dissolving sugar doesn’t really have a color. It takes its color from the liquid in which it’s dissolving.
The problem with the picture of the Nova is that it is a very complicated shape and it is in motion.
I’ll have to find a way to “make a picture” of the moving shape in my mind so I can draw it.
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