Comfortable in my Natural State: December 2011

Friday, December 30, 2011

I feel like doing charcoal paintings forever now. I find it funny how I was in a rut for a while to the point where I thought I lost my passion. In fact I felt like I was going insane and lost my identity. Guess I was just bored with acrylics...I really feel so much better about myself now. It's an amazing feeling...

"Attitude"-portrait

Thursday, December 29, 2011

I started getting bored with acrylic paint so I decided to rekindle my relationship with my first love, charcoal. I haven't used charcoals in 3 years and I missed its versatility. I have a lot more to learn with charcoal thus I will be exploring with the messy black powder for awhile...

Quotes

"Keep in mind that I'm an artist, and I'm sensitive about my shit"~Erykah Badu

"Maybe...you'll fall in love with me all over again."
"Hell," I said, "I love you enough now. What do you want to do? Ruin me?"
"Yes. I want to ruin you."
"Good," I said. "That's what I want too."
Ernest Hemingway (A Farewell to Arms)

"Personally, I don't choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to define me. That's between me and the most high. You know, my higher self. The Creator. "~Erykah Badu

"Check your ingredients, before you overdose, on The Cool"~Lupe Fiasco

"He said he’d give her the world, She said she had her own"~Anonymous

"I am so perfect so divine so ethereal so surreal
I cannot be comprehended except by my permission
I mean...I...can fly
like a bird in the sky..."
-Nikki Giovanni

"Beware the false motives of others
Be careful of those who pretend to be brothers [and sisters]
And you never suppose it's those who are closest to you
They say all the right things, to gain their position
Then use your kindness as their ammunition
to shoot you down in the name of ambition"~Lauryn Hill

"Be nobody's darling;
Be an outcast.
Take the contradictions
Of your life
And wrap around
You like a shawl,"
-Alice Walker