RE: Painting in the Dark
He is the only painter born blind and taught himself how to paint. As I understand he works a lot with his fingers and in layers. So one colour an next he waits (a day?) till the paint is dry and continues. That is what intrigues me most because he has to remember what he did before. I don't believe he has help. His wife is blind since she's 15. What I do know he works in complete silence and you shouldn't disturb him. I can imagine why.
His work did improve since I've seen paintings where his bees have more in common with butterflies and not every painting looks detailed. It can be these are one of his first or he somehow managed to find a different style although I assume someone (Joan?) has to tell him what it looks like.
I tried to scribble with closed eyes. I believe I told you and it did look better than with my eyes open. LOL
BTT it's not uncommon to sketch without looking at the paper. Can you do that?
Well, many things occur that we don't believe in.