Autism and art...

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I draw as well a drunken dlindfolded chimpanzee with a broken red crayon that has been put in a sealed cardboard box and shoved down a steep hill. (drawing while being sent down the hill that is)


.. actually that is an insult to chimpanzees.

I do like writting and photography though.

Artistic.... thats a tough one.

I love creating, but I cannot draw... or paint...

Most of my artistic attempts would be called handcrafts.
I like engraving and sculpting...and designing & etching circuit boards is a buzz.
I like generating celtic knotwork and making dragons.
I like carving ostrich eggs.
I like hammering copper and welding steel.
I like shaping wood and cutting plastic
I like drilling aluminium and magnesium alloys

I wish just once I'd make something I was happy with

Not sure if it could be called art...

more like... bodgework.

No, that's definitely art.

I love doing art...I'm just not very good at it

I love art and crafts, my crafts are a lot better than my paintings! I've always enjoyed doing something creative with my hands, embriodery, cross-stitch, card-making, not sure if that's 'art' really though.
I'm excellent at appreciating art though. If there was a prize for spending hours wandering around galleries just marvelling at works of art, getting a lot of feeling from them, then I'd probably win it

I love to draw and I think I'm fairly decent.

I wouldn't call myself an artist here but I'm a writer and a photographer, and I enjoy art even if I don't make much of it. I'm a very aesthetically aware person.

A few of my photos are here.

I am a pro photographer (motorsports, wildlife and news) I also do some illustration work (mostly pen & ink)

myspace.com/reverendblamo666

thanks

http://www.artwanted.com/markaudette

That's my old work. I haven't done any new art in over two years now. I used to be entirely obsessed with doing my art. It was wonderful and theraputic to just focus on art for hours at a time. But these days I can't even pick up a pencil. My ADD is kicking my ass these days. I'm really sad because I can't make myself get back into doing art. Something has really changed within me.

I can appreciate that one. I think that my obsession with detail is what made me excel as a jeweler. I definitely couldn't tolerate things that most people didn't see. I once chided my old boss (a very nice guy and friend of mine to this day) that the stones on a $30K diamond ring he set were crooked. He couldn't see it and the customer loved the ring, I thought it looked terrible, but worked hard to bite my tongue after that one comment.

It just seems to me that we're a different breed of artists than the "abstract" crowd who often as not are more obsessed with the idea or point they are trying to get across than with the media itself... Somebody shoot me down or back me up on this, but for me at least the media is the art, while for others, the media is just a vehicle for expression of an idea.

I wonder if I've hit on something here?

For me, both are highly important. The first thing I do is think of an image or concept and then try to express it. However, the media of its expression is probably more important to me than it is for an NT. It's just not the main thing.

Have been told that I must have a "lot of patience" & "attention to detail", by those who've seen my stuff. I reply that everyone has these tendencies-in different venues/areas. I'm not patient nor attentive to detail in all arenas of my life, and that whomever is saying this to me also has these traits in certain other aspects (different from mine).

My pieces/designs are "abstract" in style, I avoid representational subject matter. However, my motivation is just to make something intriguing, pretty, and that pleases my visual sense.

Have no notion of image or pattern before drawing (as opposed to those who say they have vision/idea before making an artwork), just make it up as I go along. Am not trying to "communicate" anything by what I do-there is no "message" nor "meaning"-merely what "looks good", satisfies/gratifies my eye (and what overlaps with what I'm good at doing).

I have written lyrics/poetry since the age of 10. I've always found it very cathartic but have never really had the confidence to let people read it before now. They are quite abstract and perhaps too personal. I've posted some elsewhere on the site if you want to check it out.

I'm right-brained to a fault, and I delight in sharing with the world the fruit of the random tree. Art and music are my fortes, and I love to be nonsensical. I am the main cause of any and all "awkward turtles" in conversations with friends. ^.^;;

Hi there,

I'd say, I have some artistic talent. Drawing, oil-painting, my piano-playing and writing. Those four are the main reason I'm still around, I quess. It's a need to ventilate....

Quite a few Autists, I belief, look at the world around them with the eye of an artist. Aesthetically sensitive and with a good feeling of/for depth.

A hunch but maybe 50% of students with talent in art-academies have some autistic traits (or simply are) and surely know the concept of living in their own world, at times. Must be.

Best of luck,
C.