by Henk ter Heide on Friday July 18, 2008
Abstracts and portraits by Rebeca Blázquez Jover, oil paintings by Joe Kresoja and landscapes by Ronald Menti.
Pintura painting
This little set of paintings by RebecA Blázquez Jover is an interesting mix of abstracts and portraits. Very colorful.
Autorretrato II by RebecA Jover
Oil paintings by Joe Kresoja
I’m tempted to call this set a bunch of women. Although Joe Kresoja does paint some other subjects a large part of his paintings are of (partly nude) women.
Usually I’m not a big fan of this kind of work. I can’t quite put my finger on why but I do like this set of oil paintings.
Pittore d’arte Ronald Menti
Looking at this small set of paintings by Ronald Menti it seams as though something is wrong with them. Although it are very nice paintings they seem to big. It’s like the artist tried to put everything into one frame.
Painting removed by request of the artist.
update: After I remove his painting the artist allowed me to put it back.
I won’t.
I don’t want to play this kind of games. Either you allow me to show your work, or you don’t. But I won’t be deleting and then again adding pictures to my blog.
Castello di Brendola by Ronald Menti
by Henk ter Heide on Thursday June 21, 2007
Did you know that every day about 170,000 people start a blog and about 120,000 blogs die?
Apparently most people blog for about two months and then they give up. Since most people who stop blogging don’t write a goodbye note nobody really knows why, but probably because people run out of ideas to write about.
I never quite understood that. There are thousands of subjects in the world and being on the Internet you run into them on a daily basis. So how could you run out of ideas.
Swimming trunk boy portrait blending colors 1th sketch
But this morning I run into my own little dip. I had the feeling that I was nearing the end of my rope. That it would be only a matter of time before I’d run out of things to say.
There is only so much you can tell about yourself. I’ve told you about autism. I’ve told you about my work. I’ve published my old stories that tell a lot about who I was before I found that I’m autistic (all be it in Dutch). So what to talk about next…
If this was just a other personal blog intended to tell the story of my live this would be the end of it.
But this isn’t just an other personal blog. This is the place were I publish my drawings and although I don’t know what I could talk about next, my drawings are still going strong. There are a few subjects I want to learn to draw; people, animals and trucks. Every time I run out of ideas about the next subject for a drawing, I try one of those and without exception I find that I have to try some new technique and thinking about this new technique I have several ideas about drawing I can do.
The stories I tell aren’t that important. In a sense they are only bait to get the search engine to index my page.
After climbing out of my dip I discovered that I was to pessimistic. Actually I’m still gaining speed. As I predicted a while ago my drawing skills increase and with that my drawing speed and the joy of drawing.
This week I even missed a few of my favored TV shows because I was busy drawing.
As for stories to tell. I have some. Slowly I’m getting a nose for interesting stories on sites as digg and in newspapers. Something else that I though of was something we did in school. You’d get a picture and had to think of a story. I make my own pictures, lets see if I can think up a few stories.
by Henk ter Heide on Thursday May 24, 2007
I’ve been reading the weblog of Steve Pavlina for the last two years (or so). Although he can be a bit to new agie at times he also writes a lot of articles I find really interesting.
Over the past two years I have saved several articles planning to get back to them and do something with them. I never did.
The problem is that a lot of those articles are about things like setting goals and having priorities. But I never quite got what the relationship was between those two. I did understand the logic of applying priorities to the things you find important to get the things you want. But I never got what kind of goals would lead to what kind of priorities.
Apart from the dream of having a half a million Euro drop in to there laps people hardly ever talk about there goals. They do talk about there priorities but to me it always seemed as thought they (wanted) to spend a lot of time doing things I really don’t want to do: Going to the movies with your boy (girl) friend, having a career. (A few years ago while I was trying to improve the working conditions within Promen I was told that I’m very ambitious. Am I ambitious?)
Yesterday Steve finally wrote an article about the relationship between goals and priority: “You want to make the greatest amount of progress towards your goals with the least amount of effort.”
While reading this article the penny dropped. Setting goals is about what I want. Setting priorities is about getting the things done I want to have done. And since I’m autistic I need different things then most people.
So what is my goal? My goal is to reach a situation where I can live as a kind of a reclusive and talk with as few people as possible.
What do I need to reach that goal?
Not having a job. There is no way you can have a job and meet colleagues and not talk with them. I’ve tried. They always think that you’re in a bad mood and try to brighten your day. Which in my case just causes a bad mood.
To live without a job I need to find a way to earn at least €1500 a month after taxes.
When I started this weblog it was meant as a way to publish my drawings. Drawings are my voice. Drawings are the way I express my self. Not having a way to publish them would be like giving a speech to an empty room.
Although I’m not all that in to brandnames I did want to have a Google search engine on my site. I wanted one on my last site and I search high and low before I found out that the search engine is actually meant to earn money. I never quite understand why I’d wanted a Google search engine but now I do. Having a Internet landmark on my site is a way of giving it a bit of structure to my site. It’s not something I’m doing for my visitors but for myself 
.
After a while I also decided it would be nice to have a “donation” button. Not that I expected to earn a lot of money with donation button, but it would be a nice way for people to let me know they appropriate my drawings.
Having a goal will change the whole layout of my life. I will get to make different choices, do different things. A whole new way of living.
Art
Today’s drawing is a bit experimental.
Topographical face 1th sketch
by Henk ter Heide on Tuesday May 22, 2007
Drawing a face with blending colors is proving a lot more difficult then I thought.
Tonight I had an idea about how to do it and I drew five sketches (of which you can find three on Flickr) before I gave up. I watched some television and went to bed.
But lying in my bed I kept thinking about drawing faces. I had some new ideas which I was trying out in my mind. In the end I decided that I might as well get out of bed and try it for real.
Face blending color 5th sketch
This sketch isn’t to bad. The colors are quit good. But the proportions are off. The distance between the inside corner and the outside corner of an eye should be the same as the distance between the inside corner of one eye and the inside corner of the other eye. This eye is to small as compared to rest of the face.
The problem with drawing a color face have to do with the synthesis between sight and touch.
I’ve discovered that when I concentrate on a drawing of a face I can use my imaginary hand to feel the shape of the face.
When I’m drawing the face and I use the right colors I also can feel the shape. But at the same time the pencil in my hand is moving over a flat surface. The contrast between what I seeing/feeling and what I feel with my hand is very confusing.
The other problem has to do with my memory. I can almost see the eyes in the drawing looking at me before I put a pencil to paper. So I’m tempted to start with the eyes. But when I do I get so distracted by the eyes that I can’t draw anything else. The two drawings I didn’t post only consist of a few lines around the eyes.
No! The colors are all wrong. When I wrote this last night at 2.30 AM the colors felt right but looking at them this morning I saw that they were wrong. I didn’t understand why though.
After thinking about it all day I do know what is wrong and why. I’ve also some ideas about how to use this in a new drawing.
But that will have to wait a few days. I also had some other ideas for pictures I want to draw and I will start with those.
Business is slow at my work so I took the rest of the week off. That’s a good thing because the first drawing will probably take a lot of work.
I’ll start with figuring out how many shades of purple I can make…
by Henk ter Heide on Monday May 21, 2007
I’ve several project lined up. This morning I started on a drawing were I have to trace a memory. Up till a few weeks ago I thought I couldn’t do that but it’s coming. Coming, but not jet here.
Face blending color 1th sketch
So I thought I’d just wait for a few days till it came to me. But as I wrote yesterday I need to draw. So I decided that I might as well start with something I’ve been putting of for a while: Drawing a face with blended colors.
This is the first attempt and I’m sorry to say that this time the scan looks better then the actual drawing. Usually the scan looks worse but not this time