Africanamerican
11 creative works found
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This is the original graphite drawing that started the Cheeky Dreads series. I scanned it via my HP F340 and balanced the contrast and brightness with Photoshop.
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I drew this picture from a photograph using graphite. I then scanned it and manipulated the color balances, hue, saturation, and the like and make this conglomeration. I really like this one because it looks like someone spilled grape kool-aid all over it. (which koolaid does make for excellent stains!!)
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I drew this picture from a photograph using graphite. I then scanned it and manipulated the color balances, hue, saturation, and the like and make this conglomeration. This one has more of an urban effect. Makes me GANGSTAH…..eventhough my gangstertivity level is at an all .001%. BUT STILL!!
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Apollo Theatre / Harlem / New York City
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Oil on Canvas / 36”x72” Artist Statement: There is a divine richness in the complexity of structure and variety of skin tone in every human face. Racist and sexist ideologies have sought to use these differences to marginalize groups of people throughout history. By constructing painted composites derived from disparate digital photographs, I am exploring the visual relationships between two human subjects bearing emotionally complex expressions. These paired individuals share a pictorial space, but one does not appear to acknowledge or engage the other. Where the figures have been rendered achromatically, gender difference or facial features appear to be the distinguishing aspects. When color is incorporated into the faces I have a particular interest in illuminating the nuanced as well as the dramatic differences in complexion. Each viewer of the work is invited to determine how they fit into this dialogue about racial difference; who they identify with and why; and to question if their own complexion has ever limited their communication or understanding of another.
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(African American) A mini series of hang babies! / i enjoyed these drawings sooo much i think i’ll make one more the last one to be an Asian baby Not completely satisfied with the baby’s face, but oh well i tried * It took me about 6 hours or so. / i used: / Charcoal / mechanical Pencils / HB, B, 4B, 8B / Ebony pencil / Kneaded eraser / plastic eraser / pencil eraser / and ref.photo
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Relating the history of a people from the shores of Africa throughout the African Diaspora. Repeating the story of survival , determination, and triumph; of work accomplished and that still to be done. Encouraging all who hear, to share the responsability, / spread the love and pass that message on to the next person in line…
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Beat, beat, beat, the …Drum
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June 13, 2008 “Today is Juneteenth, the oldest known celebration of the end of slavery in the United States. The holiday dates back to the last days of the civil war, when Union soldiers landed in Galveston, Texas with news that the war had ended and slaves were free. The date was June 19,1865. The news of freedom came to Galveston’s enslaved men and women more than two years after Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. Some say slaveholders deliberately withheld the news to maintain the labor force on the plantations. Others say federal troops delayed the news and waited to enforce Lincoln’s order so slave owners could reap the benefits of one last cotton harvest….” / (From Democracy Now-2002) ~~This year, in NYC, the celebration which is 20 years old here,. / contains elements of both historical and religious significance. / Young and old come together to speak and spread the oral traditions ; conduct drumming and dancing celebrations; share traditions between young and aged; and honor the captured Africans who lay buried , without grave markers in the Atlantic Ocean.. / It is a time of learning, sharing, hoping & remembrance. / _______ / Featured in NYC Group—June 2008
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