RONNIE TAYLOR (My best friend) Collage

SAMUEL FLEMING LEWIS I’m a native California artist living in Palm Springs, CA. My work is influenced by Traditional African art, craft and textiles, manual architectural drafting, graphic design, typography, fashion design, printed media, color, wallpaper/textiles and photography. My works on paper art include drawings with graphite pencil, ink, paint or oil stick. I create small collage works using images and text from magazines, books, photographs, and photocopies. I create original drawings, paintings and small collage pieces to include in collage/mixed media works. I also create blind contour portrait drawings on paper. The photocopier is my way of manually manipulating images, drawings, colors, layers and making multiples of images for collage works. Pattern and repetition is found in my work. I can make bold statements with pattern, repetition and color or develop minimal style works by using less color along with simple imagery.