This is how blind artist uses touch and texture to create amazing paintings

While blindness is enough to halt a painting or aspiring painter, John Bramblitt's career as a painter began in 2001, after he lost his sight due to epilepsy.

He is 'functionally blind,' this means his eyes can only differentiate between sunlight and darkness. But, he has found a way to create very incredible paintings.

"At first the idea of being able to draw without eyesight didn’t even occur to me. It wasn’t until a year after going blind that I began to figure out a way to be able to draw again”

“Basically what I do is replace everything that the eyes would do for a sighted artist with the sense of touch,” he writes on his website. “The raised lines take care of finding your placement on the canvas.“ - He wrote.

“All of the bottles and paint tubes in my studio are Brailled, and when mixing colors I use recipes. In other words I will measure out different portions of each color that I need to produce the right hue. This is no different than using a recipe to bake a cake.“

"The first art shows that I did I never told anyone that I was blind”.

Check out some of his paintings, and of course, get inspired.