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Painted a #crocus for my #qorwatercolors review soon! #watercolor #spring #flower #flowerpainting #botanicalpainting

I love how each of the characters has their own color! #blackpantherfanart #blackpanther #blackpanthermovie #lupitanyongo #green #wakandaforever #wakanda #watercolor #portraitpainting #portrait #colorsplash_of_our_world #colors_of_day

I just got to see #blackpanther (late, I know!) and I just had to paint some #fanart of #LupitaNyongo's #Nakia! She any favorite character. So here is the underpainting in purple. (Btw did you know the actor who played #mbaku is #trini?!) •
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#underpainting #wakanda #wakandaforever #portrait #watercolor #purple #painting #artistsoninstagram #artoninstagram #wip #workinprogress #sketch #sketchbook #blackpantherfanart

Painted this with #schmincke ‘s limited edition semiprecious stone watercolors. #lapislazuli #redopalite #greenporphyry #watercolor #botanicalillustration #iris #blue #flower

#GordonRodgerAlexanderBuchananParks was an #AfricanAmerican #photojournalist , #director , and #writer who was the first African American to film and produce major film productions. You probably have heard of #Shaft, which started the #blaxploitation genre.
His photographic work exposed the real lives and hardships experienced by African Americans to the rest of of country, often taking in subjects that others would consider too radical and provocative, including the #CivilRightsMovement and segregation.
He was also one of the cofounders of #essence magazine.
I had so much fun with the muted colors in this portrait! I can't believe this is the last day! Thank you guys for your kind comments and joining me this #blackhistorymonth!
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#blackhistory #photographer #cinema #movies #gouache #portrait #gouacheportrait #painting #zornpalette #artcommunity #artistsofinstagram #artistsoninstagram #womenwhodraw #womenwhopaint

#MartinaArroyo is an #AfricanAmerican #soprano #operasinger. She was one of the first few black women to enter the world of opera. She became a star when she replaced Birgit Nilsson in a #Met production of #Aida. The rest, as they say, is history.
Arroyo is known for her wit and humor. She has also helped to popularize and demystify opera by appearing in numerous talk show interviews. •
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#singer #afrolatina #theatre #opera #gouache #pencil #tonedpaper #illustrator #illustratorsoninstagram #artoninstagram #blackhistorymonth #blackhistory #puertorican

#PauliMurray was a #lawyer, #author , #civilrightsactivist, #womensrightsactivist , and #Episcopal #priest. Oh, and a saint. A real one. Murray was sainted 25 years after her death by the Episcopal church.
Murray’s work was spurred on by both the racism and the sexism that Murray had to experience. Murray was arrested in 1940 for sitting in the white only portion of the bus. Murray was not allowed to study at Havard for post graduate work because of gender restrictions .
Despite that, Murray became the first #africanamerican to earn a doctorate of Juridical Science from Yale. Murray's book States' Laws on Race and Color, a critique of state segregation laws, was considered the "bible" of the civil rights movement by the NAACP.
I could go on with a long list of Murray's achievements!
Eventually Murray left legal work and academia to become the first African American episcopal priest.
Murray is considered by many to be an #lgbt trailblazer. Murray had many long relationships with women, but did not use the term "homosexual". Murray instead called these desires "inverted sexual instinct." It also seems that Murray increasingly identified as male, even seeking hormone treatments and surgery to look for "submerged" male sexual organs.
There are so many facets to Murray's life that this description can't fit them all!
Once again having fun with #penandwatercolor. I can't believe there are only two more days! I hope you guys have been enjoying this journey with me!
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#blackhistorymonth #blackhistory #lgbthistory #transgender #trans #inkandwash #inkandwatercolor #illustrator #illustratorsoninstagram #artcommunity #instaart #genderfluid #genderqueer

#ClaudetteColvin is one of the people responsible for the desegregation of busses in Alabama. She refused to give up her seat to a white woman and was forced off of the bus she was riding. "My mother told me to be quiet about what I did. She told me to let Rosa be the one: white people aren't going to bother Rosa, they like her"
But she didn't stay quiet. Colvin and 4 other women were plaintiffs in the case #BrowdervGayle that eventually led to this segregation being declared unconstitutional. Unfortunately, because of her social status, Colvin is often overlooked for her contributions to the #civilrightsmovement. "All we want is the truth, why does history fail to get it right?” Colvin’s sister, Gloria Laster, said. “Had it not been for Claudette Colvin, Aurelia Browder, Susie McDonald, and Mary Louise Smith there may not have been a Thurgood Marshall, a Martin Luther King or a Rosa Parks.”
Having more fun with #inkandwatercolor
(Btw is anyone planning on doing #oneweek100people in March? I am but I'm nervous!)
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#blackhistory #forgottenhistory #blackhistorymonth #inkandwash #penandwatercolor #line #illustrator #illustratorsoninstagram #illustratedwomen #watercolor

#RitaDove is a poet, and was the first #africanamerican #unitedstatespoetlaureate! She is also a #pulitzerprize winner and #UniverisityofMiami alumna 👩‍🎓 (which I have to mention only because I must mention all things Miami).
I think the best way to explain her work is to give an example!
This poem is called "Chocolate "
Velvet fruit, exquisite square
I hold up to sniff
between finger and thumb -
how you numb me
with your rich attentions!
If I don't eat you quickly,
you'll melt in my palm.
Pleasure seeker, if i let you
you'd liquefy everywhere.
Knotted smoke, dark punch
of earth and night and leaf,
for a taste of you
any woman would gladly
crumble to ruin.
Enough chatter: I am ready
to fall in love! (Tried #penandwash , which was really fun!)
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#blackhistorymonth #blackhistory #poet #poetry #ink #watercolor #illustrator #illustration #illustratorsoninstagram #paint #palette #colors #inkandwatercolor #joyharjo #sandracisneros