Category: Visual Art

Bar Sketches: A Push. 100A

Bars are the best place to sketch. The energy is music.

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The Play Next Door: Chair Series

So, our studio resides in a large building with offices, an outlooking rooftop, a gallery, and so much more. We are located in a block of the building that is dedicated to artists and art related work. Because of this, our neighbors are creatives as […]

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Painting Boards in the Wildest of Styles

I don’t know what I’m doing now and this is a good thing. When I delved into fine art in the mid nineties I had a ton of ideas on what I would paint or draw. I had drawn mostly from other Black artists and […]

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Black Book: The Humanoid Void

Here’s a set of drawings I made using my acrylic paint parkers in a black paper notebook. I’m feeling the dramatic effect of the colors fighting against the thirsty black pages. These humanoid forms I will visit for some time. Not sure what I’ll do […]

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Black Book: Three Sets. Feeling out forms.

Here are four sets of drawings I did in one of my many black page notebooks with my acrylic paint markers. I find these to be the best ways to let loose and see what happens. I have treat them as sets because I craft […]

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Anatomy Sketches: Figuring Out How the Human Body Works

Bought Truth an anatomy book a few years ago and I’m not sure she spent much time looking at it. I didn’t want to let it go to waste. So I’ve been reading, studying and sketching from the samples. My second stint as a “fine […]

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Marker Sketches: The Odd Squad.

Here’s a set of sketches I did of some human figures using my Prismacolor markers. These take no more than 2-minutes. I’m thinking these are forms of “new humans” living in spectacular form and function. Life is grand, somewhere in the imagination.

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Marker Sketches: Angels and Angles

A set of sketches I did in one of my notebooks today using my Prismacolor markers. These figures have stories imbedded somewhere in my stories. This life is complex. More sides than we can comprehend.

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Black Book: Pushing Paint. Directional Sets.

This black paper is so dramatic. The battle of fighting the “dark” is worth losing a little. It creates a richer experience in its creation and result. It sounds like its too much but it’s true.

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Been Around: Prismacolors and Paper

Sat down at the desk to work out some techniques and ideas with these Prismacolors. Feels like a “wild-style” graffiti attempt but with a different purpose. There are some stories entwined in the shapes and strings. It depicts a set of “happenings” as I like […]

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