Beautiful photography by @tawnychatmon 📸 I’ve been quiet, but I’ve been working ✨ New Work posting soon.✨ “The Awakening” focusing on familial bonds, motherhood, fatherhood & celebration of childhood. Loosely inspired by the work of Marianne Stokes whose portraits often showed the fine details of garments that were floor length and embroidered. This series (as with all of my work) begins with photographs I’ve taken of my subjects, this is the first layer that I manipulate and unite with other photographic components. Thereafter, I add overlappings of gold leaf, paint, digital collage, antique art and/or hand drawn digital/illustration. I worked with Charese Adkins (@4evananasmom) on the initial hair styles that I build upon to create a more exaggerated style, @truebeautybyjudy on make up and @isabellephilogene on the initial wardrobe styling. . . #supportblackart #tawnychatmon #photographer #photomanipulation #theawakening #portraiture #photographylife #artofvisuaks #blackart #blackisbeautiful #artlovers #contemporaryart #artgram #artworld #artnerd #artislife #blackcreatives #veryblack