Just so you good people don't think I am all cartoons I thought I'd share a few of my oil paints. The first one is an incomplete picture titled, "We Are Killing Ourselves. I started it many years ago but it is still incomplete. It was my take on black responsibility. I love this painting because, in my mind, tells how although many blacks blame other people for their problems...we are the blame for our own down fall. (It's really more in debt than that, but.....)
The second is titled, African-American Gothic. My take on the famous American Gothic. I love this picture because it depicts my Mom and my deceased Step-father. His image is just how he looked the day before he died. Me and my step-father never got along and because of a comment he made about a pencil drawing I did of him when I was in the third grade I never drew another picture of him until this one.
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The first pic is sadly accurate.
did painting this prove cathartic as far as your feelings toward him were concerned?
Interesting pieces, it's odd how you decided to draw him up to the day of his death.
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I love both pieces. The first is striking. At first glance, I thought "what the fuck"?, but upon reading the title it made perfect sense...sadly as Whozhe said
Thank you, Whozhe.
Not, really, Ghost. I thought it would, but no. I will say that I think it was easier to complete, because he had passed. (Does that sound mean?)
It's not that I decided to draw him up to the day of his death, Nitty. Real quick I will tell you how it worked out. Years ago I had this wonderful idea to create a painting called African-American Gothic and I knew my mom and step-father would the best models for the peice. Now, getting my mom to pose for the piece, in knew, would not be a problem. However, because of the nature of our relationship I just didn't feel comfortable to ask my step. It was a few years later, while he wasn't feeling good that I was really bent on doing this piece so I bit the bullet and asked him if he would pose for the picture for me. I knew he would say yes, it was just a mental thing that I had to get over in asking him the question. Due to the fact that it hurt him to get up and move, I just took a picture of him, in the bedroom, in what he was wearing. It actually hurt him to stand during the photo, which I had to take several. I had no idea that he would pass the very day. (Too much information. I know. Sorry.) I do find it to be a small miracle, of sorts, that day that I worked up the nerve to ask him to pose for the picture just happened to be the day before he died. I never felt the death on him, and I am one of those people who believe that they can feel death on people.
Thank you Chameleon. I really need to finish that piece. I painted it many years ago but never finished it. I didn't think I could get the lead character's robe, around his outstretched had, to hand correctly. Also, there is a hanging figure in the middle ground, that it is really hard to draw, for various reasons. And in the very back there is a cross burning going on, feature the actual white klan. The painting is meant to be full of symbolism. I think it is one of the most powerful pieces I have ever done, if I ever finish it, of course.
How do I get a copy of the first one? That's a powerful representation of where we are in life.
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m-dubb.....I am truly fattered that you like my piece well enough to want a copy.....Sadly, I do not sale. I only create them for the joy of it and so as not to waiste the talent that the Good Lord has betowed onto me. It's funny though. My art, the thing that I have no desire to exploit, has always been excepted; but my comics, which I would love to exploit the hell out of, always face rejection. What's up with that? You think God is trying to tell me something?
My comment for the first pic....WOW.
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