Afrocentric Art

What makes a portrait more than just an image on a wall? Last month, a father called me about commissioning a piece for his son’s graduation. He told me, “I want him to see himself the way I see him…

I’ll admit something about how I work: before a single line goes down, I sit with the woman I’m drawing in my head until I can almost hear her thoughts. Sometimes I doubt whether I’ve captured her right, whether the…

A single anatomical heart, rendered line by line, can hold more feeling than a thousand carefully chosen words. I’ve spent the last two years building this collection of anatomical heart drawings, and somewhere along the way I discovered something I…

What does it mean to draw a queen before you’ve even decided to draw one? That was the question running through my mind one evening in my studio last month. I was sitting there letting my pen wander across the…

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