User:Rachard McIntyre

Rachard McIntyre is an artist who happens to be on the autism spectrum. He does pencil portraits and has also developed his own unique art style called "Biographical Portraits". His biographical portraits are of presidents, race car drivers, and even Margaret Thatcher---her biographical portrait hangs in the English Parliament. McIntyre also did a series of drawings in the biographical portrait style about the tragedy of 9-11. The names of the victims are written on every separate drawing-he drew five panels of the World Trade Center in order to honor every victim; he did the same for the New York Fire Department, the New York Police Department, the Pentagon, and Flight 93.Barack Obama owns the 9-11 collection(prints, not the originals). McIntyre continues to break through his "disability"; his art has evolved dramatically from 2009 to the present. He mastered silk painting in four months and can do black ink well drawings without making a single mistake. For someone who enjoys drawing the most he excels at "assemblages"-his own self-portrait was in a show at the University of Texas for their first art exhibition of autistic artists, along with Temple Grandin's art.