"Dogs" (intermediate painting II UNT)

"Hair" (intermediate painting II UNT)

"Labels".... (intermediate painting II UNT)

"Stuck..." (intermediate painting II UNT)

The boy in the painting is my little cousin from New Orleans. I decided to pick this particular picture and paint it like this because throughout my life I can honestly say visiting my family gave me a real experience of where my people come from, and the real life problems that people go through that I never had to endure.. Seeing a kid as young as him in this picture with a pose like this makes one think of possibly poverty, misconstrued priorities, and a delinquent. But in fact aside from all of that, here what you see is a lifestyle or which maybe later called a phase if grown out of. He is painted black, white, and grey resembling a statue-esk quality, motionless,... "stuck." Many people that grow up in places like these either grow and learn or will stay "stuck" in this lifestyle/mindset. Everything else in the painting is painted in color to symbolize the things that are seen as importance to a lifestyle/mindset like this.

"Deception" (Sculpting I UNT)

"Careful, it's not always the wolf in the sheep's clothing, sometimes the deceiver is amongst the flock" -Ali Crawford

(painting III UNT)

This painting I can actually say was my 1st attempt at realism...

Ghana.... (intermediate painting I UNT)

 

This painting was actually a photo from one of my fellow Instagram followers... LETS_GETFIT_ 

Robbed... (intermediate painting II UNT)

Another Self Portrait... (intermediate painting I UNT)

Family Time (intermediate painting I UNT)

(sorry this post is also under construction final photo coming soon)

Friends... (intermediate painting I UNT)

This is a painting of my friend Auset H. With this painting you can see I was unsure of the background but I decided that why not trust my artistic instinct.

Subject Matter (intermediate painting I UNT)

A Painting From The Past

This is painting of my mother in her younger days. this painting i can actually say is what started the turn of my overall painting style. (also under construction photo coming soon)

A Painting From Movie Scene.... (painting III UNT)

This painting was inspired from the funeral scene of "The Imitation of Life". I took on an expressionistic take in order to capture the true moment of the particular part in the movie. ( pic coming soon this  post is under construction)