Artist Lydia Makepeace

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Art VS Artist 2020

A square grid of colorful watercolor and ink portraits of the women mentioned in post below surround a photo of the artist. 

I’m more comfortable behind the brush or camera rather than the subject but my good friend, fellow artist, and remote coworker Alex Kujawa challenged me to post an #ArtVSartist.

So here it is! A rare selfie surrounded by 8 phenomenal Black women whose portraits I had the honor of painting this year.

From left to right, top to bottom:

René Brooks

Assata Shakur

Regina King

Leslie Mac

(yours truly)

Samella Lewis

Zora Neale Hurston

Dorothy Butler Gilliam

Gwen Ifill

These paintings are part of the Affirm Black Women portrait series. View the complete series HERE


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