Battle Cries
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 28 x 36 Inches
Date: Spring 2005
Battle Cries targets how children are affected by the world that we as adults have created around them. The child is dressed in oversized military clothing standing on top of skulls. Written on the skulls are words like, "drugs, violence, molestation, and war." Above him, I have written backwards in a child-like format, "On the rise are the battle cries; the children will rebel." I chose to use crayons to write it to keep with a child-like, but gritty theme.
Four Little Girls
Medium: Charcoal Pencil on Newsprint
Size: 9 x 40 Inches
Date: Fall 2004
Four Little Girls was inspired by the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama in 1963. I purposely used cheap newsprint to give it a feeling as if looking at an old photo of the innocent little girls who were the only casualties of this horrible KKK bombing.
Ayxa the Elephant Queen
Medium: Graphite; Watercolor; Acrylic; Charcoal
Size: 40 x 30 Inches
Date: December 2005
This was my first birthday gift to my then girlfirend, now wife, Erica "Ayxa" Williams.
Dear Sister: Peace Offering
Medium: Graphite; Watercolor; Acrylic
Size: 20 x 30 Inches
Date: December 2005
This is a mixed media drawing of my sister Tommie "Missy" Tolliver who passed away in 2002 from a rare form of Meningitis.
Inspiration of Life
Medium: White Prisma Pencil on Black Paper
Size: 18 x 24 Inches
Date: Fall 2004
Just wanted to show love to mothers and mothers-to-be. It was done with a technique where you draw on black paper using a white pencil. It is sort of a reversal process, whereas you are rendering the highlights instead of the shadows, in which you do on white paper.
Thug Angel
Medium: Graphite on Illustration Board
Size: 14 x 17 Inches
Date: Fall 2003
Capturing Tupac at his essence.
Revolution Woman
Medium: Color Pencil on paper
Size: 16 x 20 Inches
Date: Summer 2005
This will be a series of colored drawings of different Black women with different skintones and each one will have wear some kind of red, black, and green head wrap.
My Sisters Carry Angels In Their Bellies
Medium: Color Pencil on Illustration Board
Size: 20 x 30 Inches
Date: May 2006
This was a Mother's Day Gift for my mother.
Won't You Help to Sing Songs of Freedom
Medium: Graphite; Charcoal; Color Pencil
Size: 28 x 40 Inches
Date: July 2008
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