LINE ART CONTINUES TO INSPIRE MY IMAGINATION 

AND I HAVE BECOME ADDICTED TO IT OVER THE LAST 

20 YEARS OF MY LIFE AND ART CAREER. MY FASCINATION

WAS SPARKED BY THE ICONIC CREATIONS OF BOTH

PABLO PICASSO AND HENRI MATISSE, ALSO TO MENTION

CUBISM, ANOTHER PROFOUND INSPIRATION.

ROMARE BEARDEN, GEORGES BRAQUE, MARCEL DUCHAMP

AND JUAN GRIS, BACK TO PICASSO. ALWAYS PICASSO.

IN THIS WORK CREATED IN WHITE CONTE CRAYON,

A MEDIUM CREATED CENTURIES AGO, I DRAW DIRECTLY

ON BLACK MIXED MEDIA PAPER, THERE ARE NO PRECONCEPTIONS

OR DRAWINGS TO TRACE OVER. WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT

OCCURED AND THAT'S HOW I PREFER IT TO BE,

I LOVE WATCHING THE BIRTH OF THE ARTWORK AND

FOLLOWING MY INSTINCTS, TO THE FINISHED WORK.

AS MENTIONED MANY TIMES BEFORE, AT SOME POINT IN TIME

I PLAN TO HAVE AN EXHIBIT OF MY LINE ART DRAWINGS,

THE CALIFORNIA AFRICAN MUSEUM EXHIBITED LINE ART

OF JOSEPHINE BAKER, ELLA FITZGERALD AND BILLIE HOLIDAY.

STAY BLESSED, MK/ARTIST