We found that there is no actual meaning behind these paintings but Allen states that his drawings are his “expressions though autism.” Allen allows his had to freely start drawing lines and when he can start to see something in the lines he adds the details. As we were looking at Allen’s first drawing, Live I, we wondered how many faces are actually in the painting. There’s are too many faces to be able to count as Allen has set the eyes so everywhere you look there is a new set of eyes. Seeing all of these eyes looking at us we also wondered if Allen wanted there to be a certain mood established from the eyes. Our question was, is there supposed to be a certain mood lingering over the paintings? The mods of his paintings reflect on how Allen is feeling or thinking at the moment of him drawing. The mood of the drawing had to do a lot with the lack of color throughout the canvas. Why did he only use primary colors to accent the paintings and use mainly black? We did a little research and came to a conclusion that because of Allen’s retinitis pigmentosa and is slowly making him blind so he draws or adds colors based on what he can see or on how he wants his viewers to see. Besides slowly going blind, Allen is autistic and he finds that drawing is an easy way for him to express himself but he also draws while listening to music or with the television on which also makes an impact on what he draws. Our last question was, is there a connection between the two paintings? The only connection that any of Allen’s paintings are is that Allen draws them freely and without any thought or plan into them. Allen is one of the few artists with a disability that will never get in the way of what he loves to
We found that there is no actual meaning behind these paintings but Allen states that his drawings are his “expressions though autism.” Allen allows his had to freely start drawing lines and when he can start to see something in the lines he adds the details. As we were looking at Allen’s first drawing, Live I, we wondered how many faces are actually in the painting. There’s are too many faces to be able to count as Allen has set the eyes so everywhere you look there is a new set of eyes. Seeing all of these eyes looking at us we also wondered if Allen wanted there to be a certain mood established from the eyes. Our question was, is there supposed to be a certain mood lingering over the paintings? The mods of his paintings reflect on how Allen is feeling or thinking at the moment of him drawing. The mood of the drawing had to do a lot with the lack of color throughout the canvas. Why did he only use primary colors to accent the paintings and use mainly black? We did a little research and came to a conclusion that because of Allen’s retinitis pigmentosa and is slowly making him blind so he draws or adds colors based on what he can see or on how he wants his viewers to see. Besides slowly going blind, Allen is autistic and he finds that drawing is an easy way for him to express himself but he also draws while listening to music or with the television on which also makes an impact on what he draws. Our last question was, is there a connection between the two paintings? The only connection that any of Allen’s paintings are is that Allen draws them freely and without any thought or plan into them. Allen is one of the few artists with a disability that will never get in the way of what he loves to