Mixed Media: Stirring Up The Color

Pastels | Charcoal | Torn Paper, Beer Bottle Caps

Mixed Media: Stirring up the Colors is a dynamic series of contemporary art that brings together charcoal’s intensity with the luminous richness of pastel. Each work blends strong lines and vibrant hues, creating compositions that feel both grounded and alive with motion. Shadows and light intertwine, while bold colors stir emotional depth and rhythm across the surface.

In this collection, African American art traditions meet modern experimentation. Charcoal provides structure, weight, and gravity, while pastels inject brilliance and energy, igniting the page with expressive contrasts. These pieces are not static; they breathe, vibrate, and move as if stirred into being.

Stirring up the Colors is about harmony and disruption — where delicate shading collides with bursts of color, and where the language of drawing expands beyond quiet observation into something more powerful and immediate. The works invite viewers to feel the pulse of creativity and the freedom of expression that comes when restraint and boldness exist side by side.