Cartoons: The Caustic Family, and Educational Films: Learn How To Paint In Acrylic on Canvas.

About Me: Perception of a
Color-Blind Dyslexic Artist


What is it like to be a color-blind artist?

Totally or partially unable to distinguish between certain colors.

'As a color-blind artist I have taught myself how to decipher optical illusions. Some people ask me; How do you know which color is which? Well, thats simple, I just read the tubes of paint to see what color it is, then I keep it separated on my pallet. Heaven forbid that I get them mixed up, because then, I wouldn't know which color was which.'
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Painting of a German Shepherd
On a motor home wheel cover.

One time, Michael was commissioned to do a portrait of a German Shepherd on a motor home wheel cover. He usually uses ultramarine blue and burnt umber to create black and when he ran out of ultramarine blue he used another blue with a different hue. When it was finished he showed it to a friend and to their amazement asked, 'why did you paint it green?' Oops! Michael went to the art supply store and bought a tube of black paint and redid it. It turned out perfectly, the customer picked it up and thought it was the greatest painting they ever saw. It was never mentioned that it was green.
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What is Dyslexia?

Dyslexia is a subtle physical deficiency in which the brain has difficulty storing and retrieving linguistic information.

' Its like living in the twilight zone. I feel like I'm in a constant altered mental state, like living in a fog, an air head so to speak.'

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Michael taught art classes at the Umpqua Valley Arts Association in Roseburg, Oregon. He devised his own teaching method, THE BASIC THREE TECHNIQUES. Michael created this system many years ago to decipher the optical illusions of dyslexia that trick the mind. On Monday, March 16th 1992 the News Review had written a half page article about Michael's unique teaching methods. Michael J Lessner took the photo and Reporter Linda Schnell wrote the story.