These pieces are large, most of 'em are done in charcoal.

This one here has some pastel in there and all of my little tiny details, I come back with colored pencil with them to give 'em a little more life.

This series is called "Royalty Combs," And with that, it's that I'm by giving 'em their power by giving back their crown.

Artists, I tell people it's a gift.

It's always a mind thought moment for me.

I don't go a second without thinking about art.

I don't go a second without wanting to create something.

There's times I'm sitting at my desk on my computer and something will pop in my head, so I gotta run to the restroom to jot it down and then come back to work.

I don't know how to explain it to normal people.

I call 'em normal people, because I don't feel like I'm normal, because the art is my drive.

It keeps me up and everything, I feel that keeps me alive.

With my art, I always put my energy behind it.

I always try to express myself what I'm going through.

Sometimes you wouldn't know that a certain color or a certain stroke is probably I was in a bad mood or just going through some emotional things, but I had to express it in a different way that's not gonna harm anyone, you know, but still release it.

So my work is my therapy.

It keeps me up most of the nights, but in other days it gives me joy.

I think I've been drawing technically, that I can really pay attention to, when I was around three.

I decided to go to school for commercial art, because I used to just.

Anything I could do to create art, I wanted to do it.

And I end up at the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale, and from there I came out and worked for a sign company for 20 plus years and always had the urge to become a fine artist.

Always tried to find out, how does it work?

What does it take to be a fine artist?

It took some hard times for me to really embrace it and have the courage to jump off that cliff and become who I was put on this earth to do, and that is a fine artist.

So I've been creating for all my life, but professionally for the last 16 years, and I have enjoyed every minute of it.

These combs are based off of something I heard that in Africa a lot of the combs represented their tribes, represent their power.

I start putting images on top of the combs that needs to earn their power back.

If you look at these masks over here, these are masks I saw in Baltimore at a museum and I couldn't get very much information about them.

So basically, the comb is their throne and they are their kings and queens again.

And I would like to one day do a project that I can go to some of the museums and find out where did they get these masks from?

Who made these masks?

Do you know the real story behind these masks?

So, I can give them their stories back, give them everything they asked of when it was created.

This show is called "The Four Corners of My Mind."

And I do have another series of work on the other side here that's a lot different from what you're looking at here.

This is my color world.

Again, I got my scrubjay, which is my "Endangered Species" series.

I have my "Root of Ground" series.

I have my "Cry Freedom Root of Ground" series.

And then I have my "Red Root of Ground" series.

The ground series is basically bringing awareness to the animals, bringing awareness to us as an individual.

One of the series is called "Endangered Species of Florida."

I did nine animals and one of me, to show that I'm like these animals as a Black man.

We go through some of the same dangers, or the difference is I can speak my words and they can't.

I can express myself, but they can't.

Because with the animals.

And I have a series called "Cry of Freedom Rooted Ground," is that this animal is roaring, it's screaming out for help and we ignoring it.

I am those animals.

I am the strength of those of the bean.

And we need to find a way to keep them around, because again, once they're gone, who's next?

It's gonna be nothing but the trees.

I am a colored pencil artist.

Like if you look at the scrubjay, that's all-colored pencil other than the background.

When I do colored pencil, it's layers.

I do four or five different layers through a painting.

So, it mimics paint, but it's all colored pencil.

I start adding watercolor 'cause it works with my colored pencil.

The acrylic doesn't work very well with colored pencil.

I come back with my, I call it my abstract moment.

It add white acrylic paint, but it's normally at the end, 'cause I don't want it to affect me creating on top.

Being a colored pencil artist, after a while it takes a toll on your hands, and my fingers were started getting tight, so I couldn't do my full color colored pencil moment anymore.

So I had to find a way to still create the way I create, but soften it up on my fingers.

So I did pick up charcoal too.

My other series "Across a Way" is all charcoal mostly and colored pencil.

I want to tell these stories.

I want to tell their good and their bad through my expression.

And again, that's as an artist, we are a open diary to you.

You get to see all our pages.

I love standing behind people and hearing what they think of what I created, and it blows my mind away some of the stuff they say.

But at the end of the day, I'm like, all right, I think I nailed it.

Their story's a little different, but they kind of got it.

It's creating a conversation.

And that's what I want to be expressed in my art.

That isn't just me doing a pretty bird or doing a tree, that you understand my vision.

Understand where I was going when I created it.

With all of my females or I call 'em my queens, I ask them what their favorite color is and from there I find a moss or a butterfly to match.

So now it's just not me just creating a portrait, they're now part of the piece.

And the series is called "Natural Beauty."

They don't need any color to represent them.

They are beautiful in and out to me anyway.

But as for the butterfly, which is the nature part of it, they need their colors.

They need to be able to hunt or they need to be able to hide.

They need to show their ability to mate.

They need their colors to stand out for those purposes.

So they actually need their colors.

People ask me all the time, what is my favorite piece?

And I'm like, I don't have a favorite piece.

I'm not done yet.

I'm always really doing something or come up with a new series of things or going off of what's going on right now in today's time and find a way how I can implement it into my pieces.

And so, it's a whirlwind of different feelings.

I have a series that I created called "Power Is," and it was based off of Black Lives Matter.

My wife and I, we are curators too, so we asked through the Palm Beach Cultural Council to curate or showcase.

And it was around the time when the thing was really crazy and they wanted to have all Black artists in the showcase.

And I did a piece called "Mirror Black."

And what it was, is that the same person talking to yourself, one of 'em was very angry and the other one was very calm.

And I base it off of the blue pill and red pill.

And what part of a Black man are you focusing on?

Are you focusing on finding the answer, or you going to stay angry?

You need to find a way to kind of bring it in the middle or choose your battles.

Are you trying to find a solution or are you still want to hold on to the anger and not having the solution to how to solve this thing?

'Cause we all gotta live together at some point.

I use my struggle that I went through trying to become a fine artist and be an artist.

'Cause we are constantly being told that, you know, you know, you're going to starve.

There's no way you can survive being an artist.

And I just wanted to prove them wrong, 'cause this is my gift.

And who is anyone to tell me that I cannot do it for a living.

So, I can't take all the credit.

My wife, she's a strong part of my career.

She handles all the stuff that I don't have to handle or want to handle.

One thing that I do is when I sell a piece of artwork, I go back into my studio and I find an artist that I can support, because I got gifted.

So, who am me not to do the same.

So I'm always finding a way to just encourage the artists in my circle to understand the value of themselves and that you can make it in this crazy art world.