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Mixed Media: Stirring Up the Colors celebrates energy, rhythm, and movement through charcoal and pastels. These works leave behind heavy collage for direct mark-making, where bold lines and saturated color take the lead. Shapes twist, stretch, and vibrate across the surface, evoking jazz, spirit, and improvisation. Figures emerge and dissolve, sometimes recognizable, sometimes abstracted, as if caught in a dance between form and freedom.
This collection asks the viewer to feel as much as to see — to follow the beat of a line, the hum of a color, the pulse of a gesture. Each drawing becomes less about portrait and more about motion, balancing the raw physicality of the medium with the emotional truth carried by the subject. (Keywords: African American art, contemporary art, mixed media, charcoal, pastels).READ MORE ON MY BLOG
Mixed Media
Mixed Media : Stirring Up The Colors
MIXED MEDIA
STIRRING UP
THE COLOR
Mixed Media is a collection where boundaries dissolve and materials find new life. In this body of work, I combine charcoal, pastel, torn paper, collage, and found objects, layering them into textured narratives that reflect both memory and imagination. Each piece invites viewers to look closer, to see how fragments come together to form something whole. This series continues my exploration of African American art and contemporary art through experimentation — transforming discarded or ordinary materials into powerful stories. Torn paper becomes skin, fabric, or spirit; charcoal lines cut across layers like scars or rivers; objects pulled from daily life anchor the work in the real while opening it to the symbolic. At its core, Mixed Media reflects the complexity of life itself: nothing is singular, everything carries traces of history, and beauty often emerges from what has been broken. These works push beyond the limits of a single medium, affirming that creativity is as much about invention as it is about endurance.
Color leads in this body of work. I let pastel, oil, and charcoal argue, collide, and reconcile across the surface. Each gesture records emotion—anger, joy, tenderness, contradiction—until balance emerges. I think of color as language and conflict as composition. These pieces are less about likeness and more about emotional temperature: the heat of memory, the cool of reflection. In Stirring Up the Colors, harmony isn’t the goal—it’s the discovery that color itself carries the story, shifting between chaos and clarity until it reveals truth.
Mixed Media: Stirring Up the Colors celebrates energy, rhythm, and movement through charcoal and pastels. These works leave behind heavy collage for direct mark-making, where bold lines and saturated color take the lead. Shapes twist, stretch, and vibrate across the surface, evoking jazz, spirit, and improvisation. Figures emerge and dissolve, sometimes recognizable, sometimes abstracted, as if caught in a dance between form and freedom.
This collection asks the viewer to feel as much as to see — to follow the beat of a line, the hum of a color, the pulse of a gesture. Each drawing becomes less about portrait and more about motion, balancing the raw physicality of the medium with the emotional truth carried by the subject.