By: Brenda Bernal
Micheal Davenport is drawing a picture with his mouth. Micheal is a well known local artist in Athens, Georgia that has no arms.
Micheal Davenport utilizes his mouth to draw an outline of a bulldog. Most people live paycheck to paycheck but Davenport lives painting to painting.
Micheal Davenport utilizes his mouth to draw with a marker on a canvas. Davenport is well known for his UGA-themed artwork.
Local artist Micheal Davenport uses his mouth to draw the bulldog's eye on a canvas. Davenport is usually around the Academy in Athens or at the Walmart/Lowe's on Epps Bride Parkway.
A silhouette of Micheal Davenport as he continuous to draw with his mouth. Davenport lost his arms in an electrical accident when he was 13 years old.
Micheal Davenport utilized his mouth to draw with a marker on a canvas. Two years after Davenport's loss of his arms. He began taking art classes and learning how to utilize his mouth to make art.
Micheal Davenport's markers are sitting on his easel. Davenport is known around Athens as the "armless artist."
Micheal Davenport accepts donations for art supplies as he continues to draw with his mouth. Davenport makes a living selling paintings of sports mascots to Athens locals and tourists.
Micheal Davenport uses a red marker to color in the bulldogs hat. "People look at it like a struggle, but life is like that... God was showing me all along, 'Keep up your art," said Davenport.
Micheal Davenport utilizes his mouth to draw with a marker on a canvas. Homelessness and disability have forced Davenport to readjust his entire life towards prioritizing food, shelter, transportation, and many other "basics" that are taken for granted.
Micheal Davenport puts a cap back on his marker with the help of his foot. Over two years ago, Davenport has been attacked twice and GoFundMe campaigns were launched in response to his attacks.
Micheal Davenport is signing his name on a finished drawing. It takes Davenport about an hour to do each drawing.
Micheal Davenport posing with his finished drawing. "If you go out there and pretend to be someone else, you forget who you are," Davenport said.
